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Your favorite CPU

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What is your Favourite CPU be it new or old?
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My current one- Phenom II 965BE
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Mine would be my 4400+ of old. ;)
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My old PIII 750mhz (it could do everything) or my AMD Ahtlon XP 2500+ :D
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i5 750....!!!
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Intel Coire i7 2600K
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My i7. Never seen such power.
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Haven't got to run my i7 2600K yet, but I know it'll be my favourite
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My old Athlon 600. When I first got that it was such a jump up and I'd never seen something so powerful. Good times... :)

I must say I do love my i7 though since it handles everything I throw it's way. :P
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My old PIII 550MHz (Slot1)
Purely because the machine I had before that was P1 and the difference in speed was mind boggling to this day.
also, it was an iron dog and handled everything I threw at it.
I finally replaced it with a 3GHz P4 Prescott, and while the Prescott was much, much faster, it never felt like a well-rounded CPU.
More brute force number cruncher than elegant performer - and would constantly run at 90°C or above...
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My trusty Opteron 170. Ran a 500MHz overclock from the day I got it and served me well.

Also, after the upgrade to a i5-620 I can't really see the difference in day to day stuff in Windows. The only place I really see the difference is in games.
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May I say that I loved my Pentium 120. With a simple jumper setting I boosted that thing to 166. Man that was amazing- to me that is.
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Vector1 wrote:May I say that I loved my Pentium 120. With a simple jumper setting I boosted that thing to 166. Man that was amazing- to me that is.
Haha, I remember those. My P-100 had a Turbo button on the front of the case that changed the clock speed. :lol:
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Athlon XP 2400+ major upgrade from a Celeron 900 MHZ.
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my old E8400 was quite a winner, but since i got my i7 930, i havent looked back :mrgreen:
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3.2 ghz Prescott closely followed by the awesome cool running Pentium D 930.
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Re: Your favorite CPU

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E2160 / E2180

by far the best value for money cpu i ever owned, they overclocked like demons :twisted:

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-Prometheus- wrote:Cyrix M2 266MHz or something and I would like clock it at 333. Major upgrade from 486. Sadly Intel sued them into bankruptcy. Would have loved to see what they could have come up with today. Some of their product still survives in AMD.
Yea Cyrix made some awesome stuff, But pretty much every thing based on Intel's P6 architecture(including the Core 2 in some ways) was the best.
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core i7 930 - love this cpu ... overclocks like a dream :D
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KaosHunter wrote:core i7 930 - love this cpu ... overclocks like a dream :D
+1 cant doubt you on that one 8)

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