How much do you know about Pentium 4?

[TimeKeeper]

1. What voltage does Socket 478 P4 run at?

2. What's "average" CPU temp, w/ out OC?

3. Can it even OC?

4. What's lowest recommend PS, ie., 1.5Ghz need?

5. approximately how much slower the DDR P4 compare to RDRAM P4 of same CPU speed? (use percentage comparison)


(I know absolutely nothing about P4!)

p.s. I just happen to know that P4 1.4Ghz + DDR system will cost the same as T-bird 1.4 + DDR system.
(yes, I know T-bird will kick P4's behind in performance, but, it seems that P4 will run cooler w/ less power, and unlikely to burn in event of fan failure)

 

[bjc112]

i know they overclock well... only by FSB though.. prolly 200mhz...(air cooled)

and from this months PCworld review... the DDR chipset VIA came out with actually outperforms DDR ram... by a small small %

 

[TimeKeeper]

bjc112:

You meant RDRAM out perform DDR by small margin or vice versa?

 

[MasterHoss]

1.) I forgot--run a search here or read Anand's review of the processor...
2.) Try checking the FAQs or try Intel.
3.) Yes, all Intel processors (for the past few years at least) are multiplier locked...you'll have to OC the processor using FSB adjustments only.
4.) I believe, from the benchmarks I've seen, that DDR performs very similar to that of RDRAM. Basically--the benchmarks show not a large gap in difference...so you won't be
losing much in performance if you go DDR with P4

 

[bjc112]

no.. just read it earlier... DDR outperforms it by 1 point in CERTAIN test..so basically.. save that money by going ddr and suffer a few benchmark points ! 😛