How much CPU power is too much? Any of you guys actually using it?

[NFS4]

Heh, I'm still "stuck" at 1.4GHz with my Thunderbird, yet I haven't seen a real need to go any further yet...

So for all of you folks with 1.6A's at 2.4GHz+ what are you guys enjoying that I'm missing out on?

 

[John]

<< So for all of you folks with 1.6A's at 2.4GHz+ what are you guys enjoying that I'm missing out on? >>



[*]Bragging rights
[*]higher o/c ratio
[*]less heat
[*]I now have Intel inside
[*]Music for Pentium IV's (MP4) <inside joke for the term "MP3" that someone posted a while back>

 

[Haribo]

RC5 you mor0n!

 

[John]

Last time I ran RC5 on a P4 it sucked goat nads.

 

[Haribo]

<< Last time I ran RC5 on a P4 it sucked goat nads. >>



LOL seriously?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Welp, where are we limited on games? Can a gf4 ti4600 process faster than the fastest processors can dish them info? If so we need faster cpus

 

[MichaelD]

Hi there. As someone who recently (like, about an hour ago!:Q) upgraded systems, I can speak w/a bit of experience.

Admittedly, I knew what I'd be getting, and what I wouldn't. I went from:

1GHz 100MHz FSB/512mb SDR PC133/GF3

TO:

1.53GHz 133MHz FSB/512mb DDR PC2100/GF3

The difference is astounding (benchmarks to follow as soon as I tweak a bit more)

From some experience and a lot of reading I know that FSB is where it's at, performance-wise. Once you get up to 1GHz CPU speed, anything above that is kinda a moot point, unless you are doing PURE CPU cycle stuff (RC5/Seti/Folding/Unfolding/Ironing/Washing/other geeky semi-useless stuff...j/k)

Based on the above "before and after" rigs, I knew (hoped?) I'd be getting around a 33% performance increase...and luckily that's exactly what I've gotten. (Again, b-marks to follow...I've run SANDRA/3DM but want to tweak some more!)

When dealing with regular, everyday things, such as surfing/EXCEL/unzipping stuff/light gaming (UT) there really wasn't too much of a difference b/t my GF's 850MHz TBird PC133 rig and my 1000MHz TBird PC133 rig. I was running W2K, her Win98...mine was a bit snappier...but other than that, not much diff.

But NOW, with a 33% faster FSB as well as a faster CPU (I still think my performance gain is 90% FSB!) I can honestly say that every thing loads much faster. Programs open almost simultaneously with the mouse click.

I think I need to try 140 or maybe 150FSB.....

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Well, according to task manager my CPU utilization while playing MoH:AA, is 90%+

 

[Adul]

My computer is still to slow for me. :|

 

[Insane3D]

"Last time I ran RC5 on a P4 it sucked goat nads."

Yeah...the P4 doesn't do so well @ RC5 due to it's much weaker FPU. It does however do very well at seti due to it's high bandwith..

 

[Adul]

actually it came down to one function on the P4 that limits how fast it can do rc5.

 

[PlatinumGold]

i just got p4 1.6a @ 2.2

man this thing is Fast. it feels a lot faster than my XP1700+ i use at work.

 

[Imdmn04]

they only thing that requires my xp 1700's power is the dvix encoding from dvds that i do, i can encode divx as fast as the movie plays which is pretty fast to me.