your least favorite cpu of all time?

[gmaster456]

Any Pre HT Pentium 4 and any Pre Sandy Bridge Celeron. Its always a pain in the ass when I have to work on machines like that. And they're also usually filled with malware and have in adequate amounts of ram as well. Those are the ones that take hours to tune up. And then people start getting fussy when it takes so long or when I tell them part x has to be upgraded in order for their computer to do what they are wanting to do. Like someone trying to edit HD video on a 1.6Ghz Celeron M.

 

[classy]

Any Pre HT Pentium 4 and any Pre Sandy Bridge Celeron. Its always a pain in the ass when I have to work on machines like that. And they're also usually filled with malware and have in adequate amounts of ram as well. Those are the ones that take hours to tune up. And then people start getting fussy when it takes so long or when I tell them part x has to be upgraded in order for their computer to do what they are wanting to do. Like someone trying to edit HD video on a 1.6Ghz Celeron M.

Hmm you must be rather young. There were some great celerons back in the day.

 

[Soulkeeper]

So far A8-3850

... unless the different motherboard I am purchasing allows me to oc it more than 3%

 

[frozentundra123456]

600 mhz celeron in an e-machines with Windows ME and 2 mb integrated video.
Talk about a perfect storm of crap!! My wife saw an add for it on some shopping channel and talked me into buying it.

 

[lopri]

Q6600 by far. I had two of them and had to babysit with 8 different boards (many of which died) and eventually it killed itself. Currently it's sitting in my drawer.

 

[gevorg]

Intel Atom (think it was Pineview variant). What a POS, couldn't even handle light browsing on XP!

 

[skipsneeky2]

Q6600 by far. I had two of them and had to babysit with 8 different boards (many of which died) and eventually it killed itself. Currently it's sitting in my drawer.

Fun times if you had a ecs microatx motherboard.

My q6600 G0 was awesome but it came as a bundle with a motherboard on sale thee bundle was cheaper then the q6600 would be on any other given sunday by itself

Do a stock voltage oc on the ecs mobo the famous 3ghzs stock one with just about any mobo was capable of..stable as a rock but it pops all the usb ports then pop goes the weasle when the ps/2 ports failed:awe:

Never had so much fun with a motherboard in my life .

 

[nyker96]

Celeron 300A the first cpu that blew me away because of it's OC ability.

 

[Eeqmcsq]

Although I didn't buy it, it was my development machine assigned to me at work: The Pentium D 840. Boy that thing blasted a ton of warm air out the back every time I started compiling code. I learned first hand why Pentium Ds were nicknamed "space heaters".

 

[tynopik]

anything celeron can DIAF.

any Pre Sandy Bridge Celeron.

Went from a PII-266 to a 1.2GHz Tualatin Celeron (yay slocket)

Best performance upgrade I ever did (even more so than SSD)

 

[Puppies04]

Athlon QL-65 in my old hp lappy, combining that chips amazing ability to generate heat with HPs amazing ability to build laptops that struggle to dissipate any heat was a recipe for disaster

 

[lehtv]

Don't have a least favorite CPU. Bulldozer sucks though

 

[gorydetails]

1100t is an epic cpu. Its gets my vote

 

[RussianSensation]

Out of the machines I built, my least favourite CPU was the Athlon XP1600+ 'Palomino'. It couldn't overclock well, my $250+ Asus K266A board died, and that CPU became obsolete very fast.

But if I was outright voting for the worst CPU ever, I'd have to say Pentium D.

 

[evident]

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.

wow agree 100%. this was the first machine my parents bought, for around $1800. and a year later it was completely slow as turd. also intel atom

 

[soccerballtux]

amd k6-II. I swear it was no faster than the 233mhz cpu we had.
On the other hand it could have been the filthy Indian shop owners we bought it from. They got locked in jail for grossly overcharging and under-delivering to the city government. Back in the day when we bought ours nobody knew anything about "computers". All I knew was that the 233 green LED on the front changed to 600 but it definitely didn't feel any faster. Stupid is as stupid does, so my bet is we got shafted too. Or maybe k6-2 just sucked hard.

 

[soccerballtux]

I also didn't like my athlon xp barton 2500+. It felt slow and overclocking the bus to 200mhz didn't make it feel any faster. Once I got a chip with the embedded memory controller, that was the stuff-- paid $40 at Frys for new CPU+Mobo combo, Sempron 1.8ghz socket 754. Overclocked that to 250 bus and it was the first CPU I didn't want to upgrade from for daily use-- only upgraded for gaming-- because I was able to Firefox + listen to music + write 3 papers + run circuit design software + like 20 other things all at once and it never felt slow.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

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.

But the Celeron was good for CPU-z OC records. They hit 8GHZ with some of them lol

But thats all they were good for lol

 

[RampantAndroid]

The 8051 I had to write code for. Otherwise...no real lemons.

Actually, no...Athlon 3200 Barton was pretty worthless.

The (nearly) complete list of CPUs owned...I've used far more, mind you.
286
two 486 DXs
P2
P3
Athlon 3200
P4 Northwood 3 GHz
Athlon 64 FX52
Q6600
i7 920
i7 950

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

The 920 was still a bang for buck at its time. loved that chip. 950 another video editing beast in Adpbe

 

[soccerballtux]

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?

you mis-spelled cbu

 

[soccerballtux]

The 8051 I had to write code for. Otherwise...no real lemons.

Actually, no...Athlon 3200 Barton was pretty worthless.

The (nearly) complete list of CPUs owned...I've used far more, mind you.
286
two 486 DXs
P2
P3
Athlon 3200
P4 Northwood 3 GHz
Athlon 64 FX52
Q6600
i7 920
i7 950

they badged it too high. 2500+ was good vs 2.5ghz p4s. But 3200+ was not good vs 3.2ghz p4s. 3200/2500 implies 28% faster. But it was only 2.2/1.83ghz faster (20.2%). Hence why once the P4s started clocking higher, the 3200+ couldn't keep up.

If they had scaled the clock speeds a bit higher they would have been OK.

 

[skipsneeky2]

you mis-spelled cbu

lol

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

 

[Screech]

celeron 2.2 ghz. Going from a 2.2 celery with an AGP geforce mx 440 to an athlon 1800+ XP with a PCI geforce mx 440 was a large upgrade. lol