Weekend Open Forum: What CPU powers your computer?

Started with AMD Athlon 1800+ at 1.8 Ghz, single core.

Due to a number of faulty motherboards, I was given a free Intel Pentium D 820, 2.6 Ghz, dual core.

Upgraded in 2008 to a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, 2.8 Ghz, quad core. Due to faulty motherboards, I've never been able to upgrade it more than 3.2 GHz.

In 2013 I've upgraded to an AMD FX 6300, which I keep at 4.5 GHz. It does everything better than the old Q9550 and is the best CPU for my GPU (Nvidia 560 Ti). I'm always 99% in every game I throw at it.
 
AMD 6300, over clocked stable at 4.1 GHZ liquid cooled, still kicking, depending how the market looks in early 2016, is when ill do an upgrade see whats new and gud for 250-300$
 
Main Rig is a FX 6300 (overclocked stable to 4.3 GHz - with a Hyper 212 Plus). Works well with everything that I throw at it, but will most likely be upgrading this year sometime. Will be going with Intel with next build and re-purpose this one.
 
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My rig
Core i7 4770k (stock)
Ram 16gb
Gtx 970 windforce (stock)
Ssd now 120gb
So im good for a couple of years
 
I'm still rolling with a Core i7 950 3.07GHz (stock)

I want to upgrade but it would only be for the sheer hell of it since this rig is still really fast and never gives me any problems.

12GB RAM, Win 8.1 on 120GB SSD, EVGA GTX 670 FTW
 
AMD A6 5400K Black Edition (Stock Clock)

No plan to upgrade on gaming rig because I always spent time using Android Tablet.
I'm also waiting for Windows 10 that Microsoft unified OS I'm excited to buy Windows 10 powered tablet.
 
I5 4460 (3.2GHz) - 2014 built
i5 2500 (3.3Ghz) - 2011 built
C2D P8600 (2.40Ghz) - 2008 laptop
Atom Z3735 (1.33Ghz) - 2014 bay trail tablet

the 4460 is released 3 years later than the 2500 but it barely surpasses the 2500 in terms of benchmark scores. the integrated graphics are much better though, along with the lower TDP rating. So I gotta agree with the author that 2500 is pretty fast for many uses, as long as paired with SSD.

the Z3735 is power efficient and pretty good for cheap tablets. but then again, no tablets uses HDD anymore.

reminds me of a "tablet" called fujitsu U1010 many years ago. it runs windows vista with only 800Mhz Intel A110 with 40GB ipod harddrive. it was heavy, warm and too slow to the point that only running videocall on skype smoothly is not possible.

it's surprising to see people rocking older intel cpus on their rig, because when I saw last week's WOF quite a number of people run the latest 9 series geforces. I hope next week WOF is what storage drives are in your computer... :D
 
i7-4770K @ 3.9GHz. Used to be clocked @4.6GHz, but everything above 3.9GHz proved to be unreliable in the long run on my board. The only thing I regret - buying 32GB of RAM; gaming or work, 16GB proved to be utterly sufficient for everything.
 
I5 4690K (Devil's Canyon) quad, 3.5Ghz
Same, I use the built in 4ghz OC mode, turbo? If anything my r9 280 video card is bottle necked so I wont be ocing this cpu until I get another GPU. This cpu works great with chivalry medieval warfare. Pretty much the main reason I bought it.
 
My desktop is running a Phenom II 955 BE, and my laptop is running some Core i7.. like... 3930QM or something like that.
 
Main PC: i7 920 on stock+24GB RAM. Had average OC for couple years, but discovered it brings nothing to the table (well except few more BOINC results) except extra heat & much higher power consumption which was serious drawback on UPS battery life. It takes everything I throw at it: games, BD/DVD editing+other multimedia, databases, BOINC 24/7, whatever else...

And in my work-only PC is indestructible E6400 Core2Duo 2.4. No issues whatsoever with standard workload.

There is absolutely nothing worthwhile on the market ATM to upgrade. Even Broadwell-E looks like more of the same old, same old from Intel.
 
Built last year: Core i5 4570, 4 GB RAM, CM 650W, Radeon 7750. Not too shabby for an occasional gamer.
 
Same, I use the built in 4ghz OC mode, turbo? If anything my r9 280 video card is bottle necked so I wont be ocing this cpu until I get another GPU. This cpu works great with chivalry medieval warfare. Pretty much the main reason I bought it.
I haven't overclocked yet, although it shouldn't be difficult. I'm even using the stock cooler now with really good idle and load temps. If the temps begin to be a problem at 4Ghz I have a nice Zalman I can use, if I get it to a point where that isn't enough I'm stopping there. Not going to go all out with water cooling.
 
i7-4770K @ 3.9GHz. Used to be clocked @4.6GHz, but everything above 3.9GHz proved to be unreliable in the long run on my board. The only thing I regret - buying 32GB of RAM; gaming or work, 16GB proved to be utterly sufficient for everything.
Yeah, but I can foresee in 2 or 3 years 16 being insufficient for some things. With a SSD, 32GB of RAM, and that processor you should be able to do everything (except 'modern' gaming) in 5+ years.
 
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