For me, thats the AMD OEM 970 BE processor, which was released as a quad core Phenom II. Zosma core chips actually have 6 cores, and sometimes you can get lucky and unlock the two hidden cores, making this chip faster than AMDs flagship, 1100T in base clock.
List your favorite processor of all time
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Close 2nd is the Slot-A Athlon because dipswitches. This is also why I’m a Kingpin fanatic.AMD Thunderbird, those things were amazing.
Bah, that isn't what the question is about. Bad answer.
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Why is that?
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It's the 2nd best overclocking CPU I've owned and the most stable. 4000c14 36ns dual rank / 5.4 ghz and no crashes or errors.
what kinda vdim you running for 4k c14?
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Here are my high lights. The AMD Athlon64 3200 (Winchester) was my first venture into OC’ing. It was a great chip, but as usual it was only for a while.
Had a DFI UT NF4 Ultra-D mobo, sold the 3200 and replaced it with the Athlon64 X2 3800…rinse and repeat.
In 2007 I moved to intel and at some point I had settled on the q9650 a few years later. replaced that machine 2 years ago. It’s still in a box somewhere in the shop. A lot of money and time has passed…
Had a DFI UT NF4 Ultra-D mobo, sold the 3200 and replaced it with the Athlon64 X2 3800…rinse and repeat.
In 2007 I moved to intel and at some point I had settled on the q9650 a few years later. replaced that machine 2 years ago. It’s still in a box somewhere in the shop. A lot of money and time has passed…
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That does sound good
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i3-2100 was probably my longest kept processor, it served me for almost 8years before its motherboard went belly up on me.
my favorite toy however was the bargain chip Wolfdale Celeron E3300, overclocked to 3.5Ghz on a stock intel cooler, i killed it on a suicide clock above 4Ghz.
it was a pity i couldn't get my hands on AMD chips.
my favorite toy however was the bargain chip Wolfdale Celeron E3300, overclocked to 3.5Ghz on a stock intel cooler, i killed it on a suicide clock above 4Ghz.
it was a pity i couldn't get my hands on AMD chips.
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Nice.
Here was one of my best OCs with the six cores unclocked 970, which CPUz would read as a 1705T. If I tried to go higher on CPU_NB it simply would not post.
After a little more tweaking, but more or less the same config, I managed to get latency down to 33.9 ns
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AMD ATHLON XP 2700+ (THOROUGHBRED). That was my first custom build and enjoyed the heck out of it for what is was. I've had a bunch of good cpus since then. Q6600 would be high on the list. Opteron 165 up there too. LGA775 for Intel and S939 for Amd just for the shear volume of different cpus that I owned.
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I mean I owned a pentium D 945 and a celeron D back in the day, So I hope you understand why when I got a 6700k and it ran @ 5ghz I was screaming like a little girl (Had 3770k and 4770k before it).
But I will always miss the my 3950x it was amazing how much I learned from that chip.
But I will always miss the my 3950x it was amazing how much I learned from that chip.
My favorite has to be the 286. For no other reason that it was my first and happy foray into the computing world. Parent's wouldn't buy a computer (too expensive), yet a friend had two 'dead' computers, both 286. I could have them BOTH if I could use the parts from both to make ONE work.
I'd love to say I was smart enough to fix 'em then, BUT the truth is.... I called the smartest guy in school that I knew to help me in the library getting the right books and helping me make 'em work.
And here we are today.. I'm still leaning on the smarter people.
I'd love to say I was smart enough to fix 'em then, BUT the truth is.... I called the smartest guy in school that I knew to help me in the library getting the right books and helping me make 'em work.
And here we are today.. I'm still leaning on the smarter people.
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