what is the best ever processor to overclock, your views

i am am interested in what you all think is the best cpu to overclock, since intel and AMD started
all opinions will be counted.

lol, i would suggest that the q6600 is a good overclock er although i have never oc this processor.

e1200 or e2140, both OC 100%. You can get faster chips but not any that OC 100%.

That's pretty sweet. What year was that?

You can run into problems with the e8200 and it's low multiplier. For 4 ghz, the e8500 only needs an fsb of 421, while the e8200 needs 500. This creates problems be cause most motherboards don't support a 2000mhz fsb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z80
its old!

The best ever? The Intel Celeron 300a comes to mind. By changing the FSB from 66MHz to 100, you turned your cheap 300MHz CPU into a fast 450MHz CPU. At the time, Intels fastest ran at 450-500MHz, so this was a big deal. Another good Intel CPU to overclock would be the 805. For awhile, it was the only dual core CPU that existed that was under $100. People could overclock it to 4GHz, though you really needed water cooling to do that. (and even then it ran hot as h3ll.) People later realized that using the 820 was better.

AMD had their 2500XP. This one was simple, change the FSB from 166 to 200. Many 2500s could handle this, and you turned your lowest end Barton core CPU into the highest end 3200+. There were many other popular Athlons, including the 2100+ or the 1600+.

If you mean current CPUs, the Q6600 and 7200 would be current favorites. Many of these are able to hit close to 4GHz. Considering the price you pay compared to other chips, they are good deals.

clearly if its overclock against price, nothing beats the celeron 420. i overclocked this to 3.84 ghz on a stock core 2 cooler from 1.6ghz. this is a cool 140% . Who knows you could hit 4ghz+ with an aftermarket cooler

From personal experience

Current cpu's : E2160, E8400

Old tech : Celeron 300A, Pentium 166 (I ran mine @ 233 with custom cooling)

The Pentium 75 was a serious contender, with several samples reaching 120 Mhz; mine could run rather reliably at 112 MHz (which, coupled with a 75 MHz FSB, a 430TX chipset, some SDRAM and 512 Kb of L2 cache, translated into Real Nice performance (tm))

I'll second the Celeron 300A: from low-cost to top performer with... er... nothing (mounted on an Abit BH6 and undervolted, it ran surprisingly cool; coupled with a P-III cooler on front and original cooler in back, it never went past 33°C under load).

Another one was the Athlon 600 (Socket A version) which could (on some models from late bins) overclock to over 1 GHz on air; a colleague of mine did so, and I saw the machine. Aghast is too weak a word to describe my state at the time.

More recent CPUs include the first K8: whoever forgot to mention Opteron 14x and their insane overclocks need a memory check. In fact, most low-clocked K8s are solid overclockers (a Sempron at 1.6 can reach 2.6 or even 3.0 without too much trouble; 2.4 is a BIOS setting away with stock cooler and voltage)

The Intel Core2 are also solid overclockers.

Yeah the E8600 is wicked sick but so is the price.

im liking all the replies, learning in the process lol
i guess it also depend on weather you get a good processor or not.

any other thoughts or personal experiances

Almost any Core 2 Duo processor will overclock by about 1GHz. My lowly E6420 (stock 2.13GHz) has been running at 3.2GHz for a year and a half without a problem. It could go even higher, but I was uncomfortable with the voltages.

they may be simple but are they the best lol
clearly the best results, but are they the best overclock ratio, we have had 400% i doubt that will be beaten

The -best- overclocker I myself have used are the one listed in my (outdated) forum profile.

The AMD Optron 146 came out of the box @ 2Ghz and with Ram,MB,Chipset(s) and CPU on 100% stock voltage would do 3Ghz+ or a full 50% OC.
Some people with fluid coolers would boost voltages and push 3.4/3.5Ghz+ or a true full 75% OC.

Just befor they stopped makeing the socket 939 MB's and CPU's you could pick the Optron 146's up for as little as $48 USD!

+1.

The Celeron Coppermine 566 on the ASUS CUSL2 .. (One of The Best MB in a long while).. . Change the FBS to 100 and boom 850Mhz.....

IF you are going to buy a new processor for OC then:

AIR Cooling Intel 45nm CPU. The E8XXX and the Q9X50 are great with air cooling or AMD Black Editions

Water Cooling: most Dual and Quad cores and the Extreme/ Black Editions

LN2: any...

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I have to agree. If simplicity and shear speed make it a great overclocker my Q9550 has been my best experience.

This thing was way too simple. It took about 20 minutes to get to 3800 with a relatively inexpensive motherboard(p5e) and cooler (ACF7P). She booted at 1.30 and but to pass prime and Intel burn test I finished at 1.35 which reads as 1.32 and droops to 1.3 under load.

Basically a middle of the road proc and board with a cheap cooler and I have a 1ghz upgrade and a 1m superpi of 12.387. And this is all with c1e enabled.

yeah the E8400 is a really good overclocker i have got it to 4.0GHz on air

E1200 at the moment.3.2GHZ 100% OC.

http://cid-1532ae9d192e3fbe.skydri [...] Helen%20PC

100% OC!thats achievable on moderm CPU.

i just found this, is that even possible?

sorry
http://www.overclock.net/hardware- [...] x9775.html

Yea it's possible for a suicide run. Notice the 1.9v+ voltage. That thing would last less than a day at that voltage. The post even said it BSOD'd on him before he could even run 3dMark. It sure makes for a nice screenshot though!

As a package, the ABIT BP6 motherboard + 2 x 366MHz Celerons...

Whacked the FSB to 100MHZ, and had a dual CPU 550MHz rig for very little cash, with Win NT4.0 - it was faster then any standard high end system of the time....

Stunner!