Early P4 Adopters: There's hope for Northwood for you!!!

[Athlon4all]

Sounds like Powerleap's up to its usual stuff. Take a look at this ExtremeTech News Piece. They've developed a Socket 423 to Socket 478 converter with voltage stepdown that will let you use Northwood's (and P4 Celeron's) in Socket 423 boards.

 

[majewski9]

Good deal for those who foolishly bought a socket 423 P4! Im just kidding! Yeah this probaly going to do a lot of people some good since those early p4's really sucked. Northwood has slightly changed my opinion of Intel.

 

[Occifer]

Cool, Powerleap helps out my foolishness.

However, the adapter does not allow a user to increase the front-side bus speed to 533-MHz, used by the 2.53-GHz Pentium 4 and faster chips; the fastest processor the upgrade allows is either a 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 or a 1.8-GHz "Pentium 4" Celeron.

this just means that the fsb is limited by the chipset right? Pretty sure my TH7-Raid would do 133 fsb easy on a northwood.

 

[lambasa]

Will this converter have the appropriate mountings to allow a standard heat sink? Or do I have to get a special heat sink?

 

[SoundWave]

Here's the pdf for the device

423/478

 

[Rectalfier]

That's great. Another reason why Intel is never a bad choice. I have been screwed many a time using AMD, hoping that I would be able to use future processors. I had a slot-a motherboard, but a slocket for T-Bird never came out for it, because they didn't work with the VIA chipsets. Then, I got a socket-A KT7-RAID, and it did not support the Palomino. I do not regret going AMD for the past couple generations, as they had the best performance and a great price, however they have always failed me in the upgrade department.

Northwood has greatly changed my opinion of Intel. P4 now offers superior performance and the best price if you overclock. My P4 2719Mhz 170FSB will serve me well for up to a year, considering Intel will only release the 3Ghz early next year, and with only a 133FSB.

Thanks Intel, the 300A was a great processor, and I loved it, but I love the Northwood even more.


P.S. I'm an AMD stock holder

 

[Athlon4all]

this just means that the fsb is limited by the chipset right? Pretty sure my TH7-Raid would do 133 fsb easy on a northwood.

Yea, I dunno tho about the original TH7-RAID. You mite get it, but I wouldn't give any guarantees.

 

[Zukatah]

The Northwood really changed the perception I had of Intel. When the P4 were based on Willy, they really sucked performance/price wise vs the Athlon XP. Now a P4 seems like a good choice because of it's great pricing, quiet operation (no need to have a Delta screamer near you...) and on top of that great overclockability. I really suggested AMD based PC before, but now I can only recommand the P4 if they don't mind overclocking a bit. The Athlon is a great chip, but you can get more speed for your money with the P4.... In the budget sector, I keep recommanding a cheap Athlon or even Duron because you can't get much better than that in the budget department....