Kudos to Intel it rocks now 2520 MHz PC-1120

[Hardware]

With Rambus now the same price as DDR and the availabilty of 0.13 1.8G P4 I upgraded my serer for free to
1.8 (2520) 1G-PC800 (PC-1120)
Right now with the 1.8G northwood P4 AMD lays to the dust (until we will see 0.13 AMD)

 

[Insane3D]

"Right now with the 1.8G northwood P4 AMD lays to the dust ."

Lays to the dust? Ummm..OK. Is this ***confirmed***??

Nothing to see here...move along....

 

[Hardware]

BTW anybody knows how to enable virtual dual northwood on the TH7-II ?
I suppose the system could be become unstable or why is Intel holding it back?

 

[Degenerate]

***confirmed***

 

[Adul]

it been reserved for the xeons hardware.

 

[Hardware]

I think AMD has a gig fight now with the new cool 0.13 P4

 

[MrGrim]

Can't anything wrong with that he's saying.

 

[visceral]

May the best chip win!


....oh and may the consumer have the best prices

 

[m2kewl]

Exactly - it's all about the proc for the best price/performance. Intel's got a good chip in the Northwood!

 

[Hardware]

Right now it seems the 1.8A weeps the floor now in these days our celeron 300 is back!

 

[MrGrim]

It's still rather expenssive, so you can't really call it the new Celeron 300A. It is IMHO a better solution to AMDs though.

 

[DN]

<< Exactly - it's all about the proc for the best price/performance. Intel's got a good chip in the Northwood! >>



It may not mean much to a person who is only a gamer, but compatibility and stability are also important, at least, to me, hence the reason why I just don't bother with AMD..

 

[MrGrim]

AMD's CPU are just as stable as Intel's. Just because VIA makes crappy chipsets it doesn't mean that you shouldn't consider an AMD processor.

 

[nortexoid]

<< AMD's CPU are just as stable as Intel's. Just because VIA makes crappy chipsets it doesn't mean that you shouldn't consider an AMD processor. >>


yup.

the northwood + rambus isn't looking too bad now, with the massive DDR ram increases...but i mean, they're still not the best bang for the buck, especially if you don't overclock.

 

[hans007]

well if VIA makes crappy chipsets, you shouldnt buy a AMD system if VIA is the only chipset available. now ALI , VIA make bad chipsets. ALI's are slow and VIA well we all know abougt them. at least sis from what i hear is decent, and cheap to boot. the nforce i'm figuring it good but it makes it so expensive.


the 1.6 p4A is pretty cheap, so maybe you guys can rally around that. 1.6 @ 133mhz is 2. 133 ghz.

 

[x86]

<< AMD's CPU are just as stable as Intel's. Just because VIA makes crappy chipsets it doesn't mean that you shouldn't consider an AMD processor. >>



Just because Via makes crappy chipsets is the very reason why you SHOULDN'T buy AMD. AMD doesn't have any other chipset solutions: SiS is slow, Ali has compatability problems and is slow, AMD stopped making their own chipsets.

Does anybody remember when AMD and Intel had the same form factor (socket 7) and everything ran smoothly with AMD when running on an i440TX/BX? Those were the days of reliability.

-x86

 

[mchammer187]

i have no probs with my VIA KT266A it is fine but i do think northwood would be the cpu of choice right now

cuz NW + overclock has the best price/perf ratio right now

 

[Hardware]

We should nor forget 40-50% OC of a NW p4 is a no nobrainer even with stock cooling 2.5G should be a easy (even a slight 10% oc of a amd is in these days very difficult)

 

[MrGrim]

SiS solutions aren't that much slower. I'd get one.

 

[saltedeggman]

I have no problem with my abit kt266a or my other kt266 chipset...

running XP 1700+ and Tbird 1400

 

[nortexoid]

sis aren't that much slower, and neither is the ali magik c0 revision...

the nforce 415 is another option that's the fastest performing while omitting the integrated video to reduce costs.

 

[smp]

Just because you repeat something a million times doesn't make it true.

 

[AGodspeed]

I must admit, the NW's are your best bet if you're going to overclock, no doubt about it. In fact, I'm looking into getting a full fledged 1.6 or 1.8A Intel rig. I just started a thread about it in fact.

Right now, if you wanna do some extreme overclocking, go with a Northwood. If you don't overclock, then go with AMD.

Of course, the situations could be easily reversed in the next couple months, and so on and so on and so on.....

 

[Hardware]

As I told right now the nw wipes the floor clean until we will see 0.13 amd !

 

[slowbutsure]

All of you should be aware that cpu speed and overclocking are not the norm for the average pc buyer. Average joe just wants a pc to run the internet,e-mail, possibly some photo printing and mild gaming. Any of the current processors on the market, if set up properly, will do for the average pc buyer. Without overclocking, my duron800 runs at 39-40 C under full load. I think that either solution is perfectly fine if you just allow the pc to run as designed. I use a p-4 1.5 at work and it is quick and stable. My duron system has not crashed or had any problems for almost a year and I'm running win98se. I am really getting tired of the intel-amd flame wars that seem to find their way into these forums constantly. Please will both sides just admit that the other side has valid points about their systems and let it go at that.

By the way I'm running a "crappy" via chipset.