List your favorite processor(s) of all time

[Sir Beregond]

2 hours ago, damric said:

I have a Ryzen 5 5600G coming next week for some abuse on my X470 Taichi. Who knows, maybe that will be my new favorite.

 

$209 at Walmart right now.

Did you need the iGPU? I had a 5600X up for sale (new - unopened, but had it for a year) for $200 shipped in the Classifieds. Ad expired this week, but still have it.

Edited March 20, 2022 by Sir Beregond

[Darkpriest667]

2600k. I think I bought it in.... March of 2011. I had it until August of 2016 (it's still in a system a friend let's his daughter use) It was just a BEAST.

[Avacado]

Has to be the 9900k for me. Not because it's the most memorable from my youth, but for what it started. The 9900k is singlehandedly the reason I am wedged so far into tech. First time I ever broke 5GHz reliably. First time I ever delidded, first time I ever used a custom loop. That chip is solely responsible for my addiction in it's current state. Therefor it has to be my favorite by default.    

Edited March 20, 2022 by Avacado

[damric]

18 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Did you need the iGPU? I had a 5600X up for sale (new - unopened, but had it for a year) for $200 shipped in the Classifieds. Ad expired this week, but still have it.

Yes I want to experiment with the iGPU and the improved memory controller. Later on it will probably end up in another small build though, who knows.

[mouacyk]

On 20/03/2022 at 12:21, Avacado said:

Has to be the 9900k for me. Not because it's the most memorable from my youth, but for what it started. The 9900k is singlehandedly the reason I am wedged so far into tech. First time I ever broke 5GHz reliably. First time I ever delidded, first time I ever used a custom loop. That chip is solely responsible for my addiction in it's current state. Therefor it has to be my favorite by default.    

First time I ever sanded a CPU die and cooled directly . 5.4GHz 0AVX 5.1GHz Cache and game stable with HT-Off is pretty sweet.

Edited March 23, 2022 by mouacyk

[Alex]

My 9900K has probably got to be my least favourite chip oddly enough. It's been finicky to overclock, puts off way too much heat, barely saw any benefit to delidding it + copper IHS and aged really fast (IMO for production means).

[Storm-Chaser]

17 hours ago, Alex said:

My 9900K has probably got to be my least favourite chip oddly enough. It's been finicky to overclock, puts off way too much heat, barely saw any benefit to delidding it + copper IHS and aged really fast (IMO for production means).

That's really some of the main reasons I went with the 9600KF (at the time I had plenty of money to go with the 9900K). Plus I like to be unique, for a while there everyone and their brother had a 9900K/KF and I didn't want to fit the mold with my rig.

[Storm-Chaser]

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Edited March 23, 2022 by Storm-Chaser