your least favorite cpu of all time?

[skipsneeky2]

Sorry,had to be done a spin off cause i'm sure someone has bought a cpu they hated or regret purchasing.

Perhaps the cpu was aged and made you pull your hair out or refused to rock the clocks?

My candidate a celeron 1.6ghzs and it was in a friends emachine and back in 2006 wow what a test of psychological torture as this was the first pc i ever used this piece of crap was what got me into this hobby in the first place :awe:

Yours?

 

[Arkaign]

Had a cacheless Celeron in a work system, that sucked. Pentium I MMX was faster, lol.

I had a Thunderbird 1400 that was never stable at stock speeds, even with a huge 92mm Delta on top of a solid Thermalright copper heatsink. What a pile of utter shit. Had to run it at 100fsb to get stable, leaving me at 1050mhz. I also had a K5-90 that wouldn't overclock to 100, hah. It was unstable. I also bought the first gen thorougbred XP, it was another pile of crap.

I guess that's about it.

 

[nanaki333]

bulldozer definitely. mine was doa when i got it the day it came out, and i still haven't gotten it back from RMA.

 

[sm625]

Pentium 4 2.0. I still have to work with several of those pieces of crap. Any pre 865 chipset pentium 4.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Mobile Pentium 4 3.2ghz with HT(Prescott chip). Very bad chip with 65 watts spewing out of a laptop.

 

[jacktesterson]

Pentium 166 MMX

I bought it for a ton of money only to have stuff move so fast it was completely obsolete so fast.

Today, for general use, a PC has a much longer life.

 

[nanaki333]

Mobile Pentium 4 3.2ghz with HT(Prescott chip). Very bad chip with 65 watts spewing out of a laptop.

i have a laptop at work that has one of those still! i think some plastic is melted around the vent.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Pentium 4 2.0. I still have to work with several of those pieces of crap. Any pre 865 chipset pentium 4.

Felt sorry for those who purchased the earlier socket 423 rambus machines...my neighbor had one and had aol dial up and this was in 2008 and working with it was painful.

I'm sure he still has it and uses it .

 

[nemesismk2]

my least favourite cpu is the IDT Winchip 200 which kinda sucked

 

[Gigantopithecus]

It definitely wasn't my least favorite CPU (that ignobility is reserved for any P4 era Celeron I had the displeasure of using), my most disappointing purchase was an E6600. Coming from a socket 939 X2 3800+, it totally was not worth the cost.

 

[jhu]

The Yorke in my HP48G. It just died one day. At least it died after it's useful life in high school and college.

 

[exar333]

Cyrix 166+

I was SO GLAD when the HDD bit the dust and BB allowed me to replace the whole machine. Got a MMX 200mhz + Monster3D and was SO much happier.

 

[ViviTheMage]

anything celeron can DIAF.

 

[Golgatha]

A Celeron-M 900Mhz chip I had in a Toshiba laptop I owned for a very short period of time. That thing was dog ass slow. Thankfully I only had it for a couple of months before I got a good job and upgraded to an IBM Thinkpad with a 1.6Ghz Pentium M in it. That sucker lasted me several years.

 

[IGemini]

Pentium 4 1.3 GHz.
Socket 423, RAMBUS. 'Nuff said.

 

[dennilfloss]

My first: Celeron 433. It was ok but wouldn't overclock for shit.

 

[micrometers]

Pentium 4 2.0 ghz

 

[thilanliyan]

Probably the AMD 9850...ran hot and didn't OC much...not very fun.

Pentium 4 1.3 GHz.
Socket 423, RAMBUS. 'Nuff said.

I had one of those when it first came out...I felt way more leet than everyone else with their pathetic single channel (S)DRAM lol

I think it ran everything well, but the price of RDRAM was ridiculous I remember.

 

[notty22]

Cyrix dx-50

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I think it ran everything well, but the price of RDRAM was ridiculous I remember.

My experience as well. Had a P4 1.5ghz with Rambus. Ugh upgrading the ram cost a fortune.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

I think it was the 2.8GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 mobile processor in a Dell laptop. This laptop had about a 45 minute battery life and would run so hot that you couldnt have it on your lap a minute after you turned it on because you would burn yourself. I think my favorite processor is the Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 that I got in my 14" Toshiba E105 laptop. That processor was a beast and still gives me great battery life. I am looking to replace it next year.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[VirtualLarry]

Worst CPU? Anything made by Cyrix, back in the day. Ran hot, were essentially overclocked from the factory, and often less than fully stable.

 

[ZipSpeed]

Another vote for Cyrix. I can't remember which model I had.

 

[ultimatebob]

Mobile Pentium 4 3.2ghz with HT(Prescott chip). Very bad chip with 65 watts spewing out of a laptop.

This would be my choice as well. I had a ThinkPad T30 with a mobile Pentium 4 in it, and it got so hot that it could literally burn your skin if you sat it on your lap while gaming on it.

 

[classy]

I wasn't too fond of my K62 300. Stable though.