Your favorite cpu

[ShrimpBrime]

Whatever cpu I currently have in my computer

A sempron 140??? Powerful!!

 

[jelloslug]

Phenom II X2s were also dope. I had a 555BE which unlocked to quad and OC'd to 4.1

Are these processors still readily available like on eBay etc? I just might have to build a system...

That was decent clocks, but a lot of people with them Phenom II duallies seem to clock that high. A 980BE from the box was so hot, 4ghz was pretty average. I managed to squeeze 6.3ghz on LN2.

AM2 through AM3+ is a spectacular platform. I recommend it for OC hobbiests. In fact the transition from s939 to AM2 was made very interesting by AsRock with AM2 Dual Sata II which you could get an AM2 Riser card and upgrade the Cpu and memory on the same s939 NB chipset. Which is probably one of the rare (est/er) pieces of hardware to find to date. I have long waited to see the board and riser card for sale, I feel I'll be dead long before I ever get a chance to experience that first hand. I did have the board, but blew up a FX-55 and the board with a failed volt mod. At the time, an expensive mistake.

If I'm getting a phenom II X2, what model do you recommend for best unlocking/overclocking?

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Are these processors still readily available like on eBay etc? I just might have to build a system...


If I'm getting a phenom II X2, what model do you recommend for best unlocking/overclocking?

555BE or 565BE parts would be the best 2.

Some Athlon II parts unlock as well.

Quick search, yes available e-bay at ridiculous prices. Ali-express like 15 bucks.

One thing to note, colder is better, there is no voltage limitation. Sometimes it takes additional v-core to get stable unlocked cores

 

[jelloslug]

All those 4 core Athlon IIs that could be unlocked to full 6 core Thubans and could hit over 3.8GHz with no more than 1.32V.

Edit
For anyone with a spare AM3/+ that can unlock cores, you are looking for GR
For example
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Good to know. I think I'm going to build a phenom II system because a lot of you guys are recommending it. Or at the very least start collecting parts. I remember AM3+ being awesome but never did it for max clock speed. I was buying OEM Phenom II 970 BE processors based on the zosma core. Which means these could unlock into a hexacore with a default speed of 3.5GHz, which was faster than the 1100T stock.

 

[theFOoL]

I remember my first AMD Athlon 1.67 OC to 1.93 with 2GB DDR 120GBHDD HDD WiNXp 32BiT Professional

 

[lexluthermiester]

Dual Tualatin PIII-S 1.4GHz with DDR memory

THAT must have been a nice setup!

 

[sn2x]

My current CPU, Core Ultra 265K.
Why? Its the fastest CPU I ever owned.

 

[lexluthermiester]

My current CPU, Core Ultra 265K.
Why? Its the fastest CPU I ever owned.

Can't argue with that logic.

Also, I don't care what many say, the newest gen of CPUs from Intel is very well rounded. Not the gaming kings, but damn good all the same.

 

[thestryker6]

THAT must have been a nice setup!

It was very good, but that was also the era where things moved fast so that didn't last long for primary system. Getting around another 7 years out of it as a server box was pretty great though. I want to say the last configuration was 2GB DRAM with 2TB storage.

Original configuration: Iwill DVD266-R (I didn't keep this board long as it was very bad at handing any sort of overclocking), 512MB DDR with a GeForce4 Ti 4600 and was always running Windows Server 2003 (back when I was young and running betas before release).

Was fairly quickly upgraded to: MSI Pro266TD Master with 1GB DDR (I think it was running 300 so DDR2400)

 

[Ruru]

555BE or 565BE parts would be the best 2.

Some Athlon II parts unlock as well.

Quick search, yes available e-bay at ridiculous prices. Ali-express like 15 bucks.

One thing to note, colder is better, there is no voltage limitation. Sometimes it takes additional v-core to get stable unlocked cores

Good to know. I think I'm going to build a phenom II system because a lot of you guys are recommending it. Or at the very least start collecting parts. I remember AM3+ being awesome but never did it for max clock speed. I was buying OEM Phenom II 970 BE processors based on the zosma core. Which means these could unlock into a hexacore with a default speed of 3.5GHz, which was faster than the 1100T stock.

Another thing to know is that (at least some) Athlon II X3 CPUs have disabled L3 cache IIRC.

THAT must have been a nice setup!

Tualatin was maybe even too good back in the time, since it totally wiped the floor with the slow Willamette P4s. Hell, even Celerons weren't that much cut-down in the Tualatin generation.