Has to be the Pentium G620. Just out-performs AMD's phenom chips for £45
Has to be the Pentium G620. Just out-performs AMD's phenom chips for £45
"Nothing is safer than a giant snowball whipping through space...at a million miles an hour"
phenom ii x 955 bang for the buck
My favourite was the Celeron A 366, overclocked to 550MHz.
I've seen a few Celeron As on here, but for me what really made them great was that you could run two of them in SMP on an Abit BP6 motherboard.
So, in 1999 I had an SMP motherboard with two Celerons running at 550MHz. Windows 2000 came out around the same time so I wasn't restricted to NT4 or GNU/Linux to get dual CPU support.
Also had great fun overclocking my P200MMX to 290MHz. OC really showed performance dividends on chips of around that time.
Currently using a Q6600 overclocked to 3GHz on standard voltage. Very nice and whisper-quiet.
E8400. Served me well for a few years, had so much fun with overclocking it!
My first PC was a Dell 486SX/25Mhz
After a few years I upgraded it to a DX4/100Mhz overdrive chip (remember those!) and wow what a massive difference! I could play MS Flight Sim 5 on full detail with such a smooth framerate whereas it was a slideshow before. That is the most memorable, the best is obviously what I have now (1st gen Core i7-860 lynnfield). I still don't really see the need to upgrade yet.
Main PC: SUGO SG01B-F | MSI X79MA-GD45 | Core i7-3930k | 16GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2133 | 256GB Crucial M550 SSD (OS/Apps) | 5TB Seagate Enterprise HDD (Data/Games) | MSI GTX970 Twin Frozr | Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Server: HP 8300usdt | Core i7-2500S | 16GB Geil DDR3-1333 | 256GB Crucial M550 mSata SSD/HGST 1TB HDD | VMWare ESXi 5.5
NAS: Synology DS1813+ | 8x5TB Seagate Enterprise HDD (30TB RAID 6)
HTPC: Shuttle SH67H3 | Core i5-2400S| 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 | 64GB Crucial M4 SSD | XBMC with AEON NOX skin | Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
AMD 486 DX4-120MHz. Not that I use it, but it still works! It is running a bit hotter (passively cooled BTW) than Intel's DX4-100 but also a bit faster. Then first Pentiums (90MHz) and Cyrix 5x86 (VIA) chips came along and the "chimney" race of who dares to release a CPU that runs hotter and crappier (remember Pentium Div 0 fiasco?) started LOL.
E8400 overclocked to 4 gigglehurtz. In January it will be 5 years old! Still using it daily but will probably bite the bullet soon and upgrade.
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
My one and only AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+
Coming up to 5 years and still going strong
3570k
It has to be my Q6600, I paid £99 for it from Scan many years ago and its still running my main gaming PC!
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+1 for the Barton XP 2500+
What a chip! :-)
Ran for years at XP 3200+ speeds and still going strong now...
Q6600 G0 stepping ?
Still using it now, serves me pretty well. Need to upgrade next year though, and maybe use Q6600 in a media pc...
Athlon thunderbird, like the k6 before it; back when they were killing Intel chips in best-bang-for-buck.
Tho its probe the q6600 which was when Intel turned it around, was going strong till I literally just upgraded it to i5
In the first PC I ever built I used an AMD 3700, was a massive upgrade from the family PC which was using a Pentium 2!
I also loved my Intel E6300, managed to overclock it to 3.5Ghz from stock clocks of 1.86Ghz.
Main - Intel Core i5 2300 @ 3.5GHz, 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM, Asus P8P67 Pro, Coolermaster iGreen 600w, GTX 480, Antec One Case
AMD Athlon 600 Slot A
Cheaper
More Powerful then Intel
Brilliant Bit of Design enabled AMD to survive for years for that success
Im an Intel man but that time AMD came up with a game changer and stuck in my mind and my PC
"It launched with superior performance over all other x86 processors available at the time, including Intel's flagship Pentium III, in every benchmark"
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