Best ever AMD cpu?

What was/is the best amd cpu ever?

  • Athlon XP

    Votes: 25 11.2%

  • Athlon XP Mobile

    Votes: 18 8.0%

  • Athlon X2

    Votes: 46 20.5%

  • Athlon 64

    Votes: 50 22.3%

  • Opteron

    Votes: 58 25.9%

  • Duron

    Votes: 2 0.9%

  • Hmm some other one

    Votes: 8 3.6%

  • Athlon FX

    Votes: 17 7.6%
  • Total voters
    224
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well what do you think...

edit: if other please specify
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Opty = Best bang for the buck before the Core 2 Duo

I have a 165 in my backup computer and it has never let me down.
 
my old 900mhz Duron was precious because it used to defy system requirements for most games like they were nothing.

"You're running Far Cry at what settings?" :eek:
 
athlon xp did start the chain of amd owning but i say athlon 64 it lasted so long an i dont think it will ever be repeated
 
FX's were pretty much always the fastest, cost aside, so I'll go with that.

Personal favorite was the 939 Opteron single cores.
 
Socket 939 Athlon 64s. Decent price, great performance. Everything before or after than (including AM2 A64s) was either slower than the competition or was ridiculously priced.
 
GOOOO athlon xp, my xp 2800 kicks serious tail against my newer rig.

specs 1>

athlon xp 2800, 512 ddr 400, ecs mobo with via km400 chipset, radeon 9550

specs 2. pentium 4 ht 3 ghz, 512 ddr2. radeon x300

comp #1 won. yaaaaay
 
Socket 939 Opterons. Even at stock they pwn, and if you get one with a good stepping it's just through the roof! :p
 
Athlon 64. They redefined the computing industry and their offspring continue to do so.
 
The A64s/opterons in the 754 socket line more or less heralded this age of fast-running AND cool CPUs that we have now. 939 may have taken things a step further, but the original A64s really stuck it to Intel.
 
JinxyBoi said:
my old 900mhz Duron was precious because it used to defy system requirements for most games like they were nothing.

"You're running Far Cry at what settings?" :eek:
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I know I loved my 1.0 Duron. That thing would take anything thrown at it. I just hope my Opty lasts half as long as that did.
 
I think it's a tie between the original Athlon, which really put AMD on the map and the Athlon64, which put them on top for such a long time.
 
I voted for the Athlon 64, since it pwned the Pentium 4 for so long.

Realistically though, I think the Opteron has really made AMD shine (and capture a large amount of market share) in the last few years.
 
Opteron

I'm an intern at Morgan Stanley and before they used Opterons, they used Itaniums and people had to manually edit bits of code in all their software to get it working. With the Opteron, everything worked right off the bat.
 
I haven't been into computers long enough to have seen AMD start the Intel ownage, but from what I have had personal experience with, I'd have to vote the single core 939 Opty's. Before anything became dual core optimized, they where it was at for the money and performance; they were cheap and OCed like madness.
 
I voted for Athlon XP because I am still using one right now in one of my rig, surprisingly.
 
Athlon XP Mobile IQYHA 1.6ghz
Still running after 2 years with a 900mhz overclock. Still the same old XP4000. only thing I need is a better video card.
 
I vote for the Opteron.

AXP is the hot little number that showed us performance for spare change,
A64 is very cool and collected,
X2 is the athletic twin,
Opteron = ownage, 'nuf said.

Before the price drops last year, I'm sure the poll results would be much different. I certainly would have voted differently.
 
The first Slot A Athlon CPU's. While we may now scoff at such chips as being feeble these days, they were a first for AMD; no longer were they dependent on Intel-based sockets for their CPU's, and that they finally offered a superior product for a lot less money.

Prior to that, AMD was making up every excuse to say "Our chips are as good as Intel's" with the K5 and K6 (not to mention, the enhanced 486 chips trying to match the Pentium classic), while coming up short on performance. After all, trying to claim that an AMD K5 CPU running at 117.5 MHz was as good as Intel's Pentium 166 MHz was rather short-sighted.
 
I had one of the Evergreen 586/133 upgrade chips in my 486-66 that spanked many a P100 in Acad R12 DOS/Win 3.11. Nice chip.
 
Their latest offering. It would be rather pointless to release a CPU that performs worse than its precursor. Therefore the latest CPU will always be their best.
 
Easily X2's! Everything else had weaknesses, X2's had none performance wise.
 
My Athlon XP Mobile 2600+ hit 2.5 Ghz, and would have gone further if I'd paired it up with better RAM. It actually outperformed the Athlon 64 that I upgraded to. It will always have a place in my heart...
 
I agree with Opteron for the market share and for the performance. The IMC is where it's at for huge amounts of RAM (16GB+).
I still have an AXP 2200+ that's in my HTPC to this day also. It's plenty for watching videos, DVDs, and playing mp3s.
 
Donnie27 said:
Easily X2's! Everything else had weaknesses, X2's had none performance wise.
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They were too expensive. $1000+ for a 4800+ and $750 for a 4400+? No thanks. The performance was there, but their exhorbitant price completely robbed them of the price/performance ratio. You could get a much cheaper and only slightly slower chip from single-core A64s or Pentium Ds.
 
InorganicMatter said:
They were too expensive. $1000+ for a 4800+ and $750 for a 4400+? No thanks. The performance was there, but their exhorbitant price completely robbed them of the price/performance ratio. You could get a much cheaper and only slightly slower chip from single-core A64s or Pentium Ds.
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Note, I did say performance wise. I agree they were too expensive but that wasn't what he asked. Also keep in mind that many of the Opterons were even more wildly overpriced.
 
I'd go with 1Ghz T-Bird when DDR chipsets were becoming available. It had the most "wow" factor of any AMD release IMO and it knocked Intel right in the gut.

But since that wasn't on the list I voted Barton Mobile. Just a plain kickass cpu and pretty cheap at the time.
 
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