What Intel CPU do you miss?

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merlin704

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I saw a thread in the AMD forum that made me think about this. The thread was " I miss the AMD mobiles.". I wanted to reply with an Intel CPU but of course, wrong forum. I was going to say I miss my old P4 1.6A. Man those would overclock. I remember getting mine to 2.9Ghz air-cooled.:D

So what CPU do you miss?
 
How about Dual Celeron 300As clocked at 466Mhz? It sure wipped my dual P1 133s and it was my best overclock %.

I had dual cores for quite a few years and for all but 1 upgrade I had for 3 months every single machine I have had since 1994 has had 2 or more cores...
 
I loved my celeron 333@550mhz, great setup with some Voodoo II's at that time.

I still own my original P1 166mmx that would run at 250mhz but hot like a mofo!!
 
def the 300A or any PIII slot chips was always tinkering with those things...
 
I really miss my Intel 80286 box. It was an IBM AT clone.

I purchased a Intel 80286 reference manual, and started coding in assembler. It was so much fun.

Then I learned C, and bought a $150.00 Microsoft QuickC IDE, and upgraded the system to 640K of RAM.

Man, it is almost enough to make me tear eyed.
 
absolutly none of them. I like what I have now a whole lot better.
 
The one I miss the most was my E4300, ran at 3.0GHz stock volts and cooling from day one, and I hear its still going strong.
 
300A @ 466 or 504 on a real cold day! Going from a P1 120 the celery was incredible!
 
When i read the title, the first thing that popped in my mind was my 300a @ 450 on a Soyo 6ba+III
 
PIII-S (Tualatin) 1.4GHz.

I bought one on ebay that happened to be unlocked. I ran it at 8x200 on an ST6. I had to give up USB, and use a promise ultra133 hard drive card, as the PCI bus speed made the usb and onboard hdd controllers take a shist.

If that board took more than 512MB ram, I might be running it today. I seriously think the only reason my E2160 is faster (at stock speeds), is the second core.
 
I liked the old P2 bricks. Those things made installs of today seem so trivial.
 
Hmm... P4 1.3GHz...Celeron 633... Unlocked P2-400... umm...no. A 2.7GHz Celeron ... only because I could almost never get rid of it no matter how hard I tried.
 
SpeedyVV said:
I really miss my Intel 80286 box. It was an IBM AT clone.

I purchased a Intel 80286 reference manual, and started coding in assembler. It was so much fun.

Then I learned C, and bought a $150.00 Microsoft QuickC IDE, and upgraded the system to 640K of RAM.

Man, it is almost enough to make me tear eyed.
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Question is... how much to you pay for that ram?
 
Bigbacon said:
Question is... how much to you pay for that ram?
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I remember around the time I had a 286 the memory industry was going through a price crash. Lucky for me. :D

At the place I worked at the time (a medium computer manufacturer), before the crash I think they were selling 256Kbx1 DIP memory for $8-$9 each. That wasn't an expensive price either. You needed 36 chips on a board for 1MB, including parity. Ouch, around $300/MB. Prices went down especially after more boards started using 256Kbx4 memory sockets (12 chips including parity), or the trickier higher density memory mounted on a small circuit board that straddled two sockets. I think I still have some of those weird memory chips in a box.
 
I sort of miss my Coppermine S370 Pentium-3 700Mhz. It came stock with a 100Mhz FSB, I could overclock it to 933Mhz just by changing the FSB to 133Mhz, and I could do that using the stock heatsink (which was about the size of a modern day northbridge heatsink).

That was a pretty awesome chip to have, that was around when the first Athlon's were coming out and were all the rage. I think an Athlon 800 was one of the killer systems at the time, so running my P3 at 933 (Along with my Geforce256) was pretty savage.
 
LanPirate1 said:
The one I miss the most was my E4300, ran at 3.0GHz stock volts and cooling from day one, and I hear its still going strong.
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Funny you should say that.

When I upgraded from my E4300 to a Q6600, I thought, man this sucker shure OCs well, so i kept it.

I am happy I did, I have it now on a Windows Home Server setup, and the sucker does not even work up a swet.

If I ever build a HTPC I will pull out that E4300 and put it to better use, and by a e2xxx for the windows home server,

Bigbacon said:
Question is... how much to you pay for that ram?
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That what a long time ago. IIRC I needed 9 128Kb (8x128Kb = 128KB + parity) chips to take it from 512KB to a full 640KB. And I think it cost around $100 Canadian.

Uhmm something must be wrong, cause that would be $800 for about 1Meg or $0.8 Million for 1 GIg!!! Or is my math screwed up?
 
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