your least favorite cpu of all time?

[soccerballtux]

 

[skipsneeky2]

lol @ 12ghzs oc on the space heater

 

[ther00kie16]

Wasn't a fan of the roughly 6 yr old 1.4ghz p4 that we had to use in a lab when dual cores had been out for awhile.

 

[Matt1970]

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.

Oh god, the only chip worse than that was the 233+. I had a stack of those I was pulling from customer machines and they would cause all kinds of errors.

 

[dennilfloss]

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

Think you misread the thread title. :biggrin:

 

[Rifter]

AMD 7750 Kuma dualcore. Would not overclock from its stock 2.7Ghz past 3Ghz, and needed 1.65V to hit 3Ghz. Worst chip i have ever owned.

 

[Chiropteran]

1.13ghz pentium 3- http://www.anandtech.com/show/613/5

 

[drizek]

Athlon TBred 2400+. It was really... meh

 

[tweakboy]

Tandy from Radio Shack with a 5 1/2 for diskettes lol

 

[nitrous9200]

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

That's a good one...I've got a Compaq with a QL-60 that was given to me for free and I'm surprised at how weak it is and how hot it runs. When I first got the laptop, it was idling in the 70C range and under load spiked up to 90 and would throttle itself. I redid the thermal compound and both temps dropped about 20C but it's still pathetic. Sheesh.

Otherwise, my Athlon 700, celeron & p4 2GHz, Athlon 3800X2 and my current Core2 in my laptop have all been great - the P4 system is now 8 years old and still running, the X2 (a socket 939) never skipped a beat and my C2D laptop can run two VM's while I multitask no problem.

 

[soccerballtux]

AMD 7750 Kuma dualcore. Would not overclock from its stock 2.7Ghz past 3Ghz, and needed 1.65V to hit 3Ghz. Worst chip i have ever owned.

lol

 

[Hulk]

486SX20

Okay get a load of these specs.
20MHz
1micron process technology, that's 1000nm
5Volts!!!
900,000 transistors
8KB L1 cache, we don't need no stinking L2 or L2!
FSB:Core ratio, 1:1, no math problems here when overclocking
No math co-processor

 

[Joseph F]

I have a hard time deciding in-between the Phenom x4 9600BE that I use now, and the P4 1.6GHz that I used from 2002-2006.

The Phenom is such a piece of shit, that it won't even clock FIFTY FVCKING MHZ above stock without BSODing. (and that's with Arctic Silver 5 and a Cooler Master TX3)

 

[sangyup81]

I haven't regretted anything since the 486 DX-2 66 MHz. At the time, Pentiums were out.

 

[soccerballtux]

I have a hard time deciding in-between the Phenom x4 9600BE that I use now, and the P4 1.6GHz that I used from 2002-2006.

The Phenom is such a piece of shit, that it won't even clock FIFTY FVCKING MHZ above stock without BSODing. (and that's with Arctic Silver 5 and a Cooler Master TX3)

what about with ACC enabled? That helped a lot of people hit 3ghz.

 

[Joseph F]

ACC makes it BSOD at stock speed. I just can't win with the damn thing.

Luckily, I'm going to either the Rockville or the Philadelphia Microcenter on the 26th to get a 2500k, and say goodbye to this piece of rubbish once and for all.

 

[skipsneeky2]

I have a hard time deciding in-between the Phenom x4 9600BE that I use now, and the P4 1.6GHz that I used from 2002-2006.

The Phenom is such a piece of shit, that it won't even clock FIFTY FVCKING MHZ above stock without BSODing. (and that's with Arctic Silver 5 and a Cooler Master TX3)

Don't feel bad this e8200 refuses to clock to 3.6ghzs which seem's to be common for a 45nm dual core....1.37v core and it still refuses to stay stable...nb 1.33 it is prime95 stable for hours on end but decides to crash while benchmarking cod4 on my gtx560...go figure.

Does seem to run just fine at 3.2ghzs on stock voltageso you would think it could clock to the sky..but nope refuses to .

 

[drizek]

Wasn't a fan of the roughly 6 yr old 1.4ghz p4 that we had to use in a lab when dual cores had been out for awhile.

OK, so the Pentium II, ~300MHZ chips were pretty good, in their day, but when I had to use them in 2004 to run Photoshop and 3DS Max. I don't think I've ever hated a CPU more. We eventually got some 2.4GHz P4s and, later, some of the first Opterons (1.6GHz duallies).

 

[Kevmanw430]

The god-damn 2GHz P4 I have to use at work, because its "against company poilcy" to let me bring in my DV7t or m11x. That chip is so slow, and it was even worse when the computer only had 512MB of RAM. Ticked me off so badly, I actually bought some DDR RAM a while back and upgraded it to 1.5GB RAM and tossed a Radeon X800 I haad laying around in it so it didn't feel so sluggish.

 

[ther00kie16]

OK, so the Pentium II, ~300MHZ chips were pretty good, in their day, but when I had to use them in 2004 to run Photoshop and 3DS Max. I don't think I've ever hated a CPU more. We eventually got some 2.4GHz P4s and, later, some of the first Opterons (1.6GHz duallies).

Oh yea, don't get me started on all the Celerons with 128mb of ram running xp we had to use in high school

 

[CarpeDiem99]

celeron 900Mhz, that thing was SLOW

 

[Maximilian]

Opteron 170, everyone elses overclocked a lot, mine wouldnt overclock for crap.

 

[drizek]

Oh yea, don't get me started on all the Celerons with 128mb of ram running xp we had to use in high school

Oh look at you, with your 128MB of ram. Real fancy.

We had Windows 2000 running on 64MB of RAM. For a graphic design class. Running Photoshop 7.

And the web design class was running Dreamweaver/ Flash on these things. They were insanely bad.


Edit: This was in 2005. I brought in my laptop, with a 2GHz Penitum M, 1.5GB Ram and a 7800GTX Go running a 1920x1200 17" display because I got sick of using these things. It was soooo much better than using the class computers.

And the worst part was that we weren't allowed to install any software on the computers, which meant we could only use Internet Explorer 6.

 

[F1shF4t]

Celeron D 2.4ghz in my secondary comp a few years back. The case made a nice leg warmer though, when this thing was running.

 

[Cerb]

Tandy from Radio Shack with a 5 1/2 for diskettes lol

I still have a Trash-80. It was awesome, way back when.

I'm going to say the Convington Celeron. Willamette and Northwood were bad, especially paired with SDR SDRAM, but nothing came close to the craptasticness of the Celerons before Medocino.

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.

The K6-II never went to 600MHz. According to Wikipedia, the K6-III didn't even make it that high. I was rather fond of my K6-II 350.