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[ElPolloDiabl]

Hi,
Just a roundup of the CPUs over the years that you loved or hated for whatever reason.

Hate: 8mhz 68000
It didn't have enough power to show off the Amigas awesome operating system.
Love: 68030
Gave you enough power for flight sims, racing sims and multitasking in the OS. Plus very backwards compatible.
Hate: 68040
Ran hot and the speed up was choked by the Amiga chipset. Although math operations were a lot faster. Not as backwards compatible
Love: Celerons with on die cache.
First time that gamers had an affordable CPU.
Love: PowerPC G3
A fast processor for a Mac or Amiga. I haven't had any software to push its limits though.
Like: the Pentium M/Pentium D
Put an end to the gigahertz war and its 2MB cache gave it awesome performance.
Hate: Current dual-core/quad core cpus that give you no noticeable performance increase. Better off spending your money on faster graphics cards and faster hard drives.

[Piru]

Love: 7447/7448
Badass performance. The fastest Altivec unit per clock. (I have 4 of these, ranging from 1GHz to 1.67GHz)
Hate: Pentiums
Ran way too hot and had poor performance per clock.
Love: Current intel dual-core/quad core cpus
Insane overclockability even with passive cooling. Very fast per clock.

[countzero]

Originally Posted by Piru

Love: Current intel dual-core/quad core cpus
Insane overclockability even with passive cooling. Very fast per clock.

or just a good marketing trick to brand CPUs lower than their optimal frequencies to give impression of "OMG I'm an insane overclocker" to some users

[NovaCoder]

Hate: 286 (because I nearly brought one for gaming)
Love: 486DX266 (I was too poor to buy one)
Love: IBM Blue Lightning processor 75Mhz (I did get one of this babies though)
Hate: P60 POS (I avoided this!)


Love: 030's & 060's but hate 040's

[fishy_fiz]

A CPU is a CPU, they all do the same thing (although obviously with different degrees of performance, etc), so Im not too concerned what it is. Standouts in recent times though would have to be the early Athlon64's,... sure theyre outdated by now, but it was that cpu that forced Intel to pull thier thumbs out and probably plays a big part in how cheap and powerful hardware is these days. Core2 (duo/quad) is the other stand out. Low power consumption and heat dissipation (for a cpu of its class especiialy), and very overclockable, even with modest (retail cpu box) cooler.

[X-ray]

For purely nostalgic reasons, 50mHz 68030

[tone007]

Hate: anything from Transmeta (complete slugs)
Hate: AMDs (especially in laptops, I'll fry my eggs on the stove, thanks)
Hate: Desktop-class P4 chips in laptops (same reason as above)
Like: Pentium M/Centrino (not horrible performance, alot less overheating)
Love: Intel Dual-core and up of the last few years
Currently enamored with: Intel Atom (quick enough, hardly gets warm)

As far as Amigas go, 68060s are nice.

Other old favorites: 6502 (ubiquitous,), i8080 (IMSAI anyone?)

[koshman]

@ Fanscale: Pentium M/Pentium D - these two CPUs together??? You've got to be kidding...

[zipper]

When frying eggs - my ex ex laptop P4 3.4 GHz.
Ok, 68060 is the long time favourite - especially in A500T.

[Karlos]

No votes for the 6502 or Z80?

You guys suck.


Seriously though, if you profess to love or hate a CPU you are either slightly weird or you are a coder. Assuming you are the latter and of the age range of original Amiga users, you probably cut your teeth on a 6502 or Z80 and moved up to the 68000 with the Amiga.

[skurk]

Originally Posted by Karlos

No votes for the 6502 or Z80?

You guys suck.

The 6502 is fine, but my vote would go for the 68k. Assembly programming on that thing it is just pure poetry.

Intel's never did much for me, though, which is probably why it's down there somewhere on the bottom of my list.

[bloodline]

Love: 68000 - the first CPU I learned to program... I still have the 68k architecture in the back of my mind when ever I program anything...

Love: The first Athlon64 - the x86 done right, probably done more for the modern computer industry than any other.

Hate: PPC 603 - cost me a lot of money and offered very little.

Hate: Pentium4 - total dead end...

[Lockon_15]

Love: POWER5+, Z80, 68000

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by bloodline

Love: 68000 - the first CPU I learned to program... I still have the 68k architecture in the back of my mind when ever I program anything...

Love: The first Athlon64 - the x86 done right, probably done more for the modern computer industry than any other.

Hate: PPC 603 - cost me a lot of money and offered very little.

Hate: Pentium4 - total dead end...

To be fair, it wasn't the 603 that let you down, it was the hardware it was plugged into and the whole context switch thing. No L2 cache, slow memory bus. Any code you wrote that would fit into the 603's instruction cache and didn't need to spill registers onto the stack could run a lot faster than the 68K CPU on the same card.

Writing efficient code for WarpOS (and presumably PowerUP) is an interesting challenge.

[Gulliver]

Hate: Current x86 micros. I am obliged to use them though, but they are bloated stuff. Have you seen what compromises they had to make to achieve backwards compatibility?. You can fry eggs without problems on them, and you need your own power plant to drive them.
Love: Z80, an 8 bit beauty and efficiently designed. Easy to program, and dead easy to interface with watever components you may find.