Worst processors of all time

Was it an Athlon 64? I remember those absolutely destroying the Pentium 4 of the time in performance per GHz. That was one epic CPU for its day. Some of the Athlon 64's features such as integrated memory controller would not be seen on an Intel until the Core i7 920 in 2008 or so (which was also an amazing CPU, especially for overclocking).

 

No, Athlon, the original egg fryer, one that started that legend.

Athlon 64 was really good indeed, had one of those too.

Anything really destroyed Pentium 4, Even good Pentium III. Only when they redid Pentium 4 using Pentium III core it became fast and Core 2 Duo had still roots on Pentium III.

First Pentium and Pentium 4 share same lame performance compared to other earlier generation products around at the time, of course Pentium I was using lot slower clocks, but it still was quite slow.

Intel has this bad habit of selling new stuff that is slower than old stuff, but it is still nothing as bad as GPU market of both big names have been. I'm sure people remember SE = Slow Edition. cards, also AMD naming schemes becoming so complex and misleading that people constantly were buying wrong cards, but that is GPU's, not so much CPU's.

 

My ceramic egg fryer still works well. (1300Mhz)

 

My dad has an early 2000's Dell inspirion(silver) with an athlon 64 cpu with Windows XP. Still runs strong, and he still uses it frequently as a secondary computer to his windows 10.

 

don't know if its been mentioned, but the FX 9590. its basically a 250w heater

 

along with the Pentium 4 chip I have... that thing is over 200W and easily heats up a smallish room.

 

I have a ~300W video card that can do that too, but at least its performance justifies the massive power dissipation, unlike with those P4 and FX chips.

I'd also like to say the Core i9 is one of the worst CPUs due to absolutely horrible performance per dollar.

 

The Intel i9 line is IMO the worst proposition on sale today, obviously not in terms of performance but as package and platform. It's crazy expensive and how they segmented it doesn't make sense. I'm on the previous x99, and will eventually go to Threadripper. If only Intel was on the table, I'd rather go Xeon than x299.

The Intel Atom Z520 was a decent video streamer, after you performed some Voodoo on it. And that's the only thing it was decent at.

Whatever processor was in the original Samsung Galaxy S was also a pretty bad CPU - not the worst, but still sub-meh.

The worst performer ever fore me - pretty much a paperweight from the day of purchase - was the processor contained in the Mediacom SmartPad 810CEX. You can usually find use for even very slow processors, but this one was slow at everything. Enabling WiFi was slow.

Great processors were the AMD E350 APU (an excellent HTPC offer, that lasted many years) and the Intel Xeon x5690 (still a fantastic server option today). Also the Pentium G3258 was a fun, unique model. The G3220 was my go-to CPU for office builds, now replaced by the AMD A8-9600.

 

LooooooooooL why that many of them???

 

X59 was the best X series chipset from Intel IMO. That's what the original Core i7 ran on and it was an epic platform for its time, and it was reasonably priced.

 

A nearby office was throwing out their Dell Optiplex GX520s

 

with was never completet never worket without failuars and was more lke a bigger version of mechanical calculator like this

Some generic mechanical calculator


difference machine


The Difference Engine was an accurate mechanical calculator designed by Charles Babbage in the 1840s, but was never built in its inventor's lifetime. Here, its modern builder explains how it works


The real firs computer that was completly progammable and had all the features that have a computer today was the Zuse Z3

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Zuse Z3

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For Me the worst CPU I used is a Pentium 4 3.0E it was so slow,HOT and LOUD.For the price it was CRAP.Then I upgraded to Core2 Duo E4650 2.4

 

*cough* intel atom *cough*

 

Yep can confirm it had performance about the size of an atom... at least the old ones. Its overall performance per watt was nothing special either. Its so bad that even in phones it isn't all that great of a CPU.