Need a 2.4 northwood 400 FSB

[imported_bigblock]

Looking for a new chip where can I buy one today and what is a fair price? Thanks in advance

 

[myocardia]

I don't believe they ever made a 2.4A, did they? I thought the fastest P4A chip was the 2.2ghz. You'd be smarter to get yourself a P4C and a $100 motherboard. Reloading Windows isn't that hard.

edit: And nobody need put a link to the 2.4A Prescott chip. That's NOT a P4A, no matter what Intel decided to call it.

 

[exar333]

buying a 400fsb P4 is crazy at this time....there are great deals on both the 2.4A 533 and 2.4, and 2.8 800fsb...not to mention that you can get some great Abit boards for <100 bucks too...unless your upgrading from a P200, i would forget it....

 

[imported_bigblock]

I have a abit th711 board and I thought it might be less expensive to up grade my chip. my board will handle a 2.4 400mhz and I have a 1.9 now. However if it is not that expensive I will look into a board and cpu. any suggestions. current, twist my arm, budget is 250-300 buks.

 

[myocardia]

Well, you could put in one of these, which is a 2.4ghz 400mhz fsb: 2.4ghz Celeron, but you'd get much better performance out of one of these, if you don't mind overclocking: 2.0ghz P4A. They run up to at least 2.7ghz, occasionally higher. But if you spent $97 on an Abit IS7: link, and $178 on a 2.8C: link, that's nearly $300, and you'd still have to buy yourself some good PC3200 ram. This Geil works well with P4's, and it's cheap: link, but that adds another $127. You really can't build an Intel system for less than $300, if you include motherboard, processor, and ram.

 

[Big Lar]

There is a 2.4A, a 2.5A and a limited 2.6A.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Big Lar
There is a 2.4A, a 2.5A and a limited 2.6A.

Any idea where to buy one, though? All of the good places people around here normally use (newegg, zipzoomfly, etc) haven't had them in a long time.

 

[CJP]

TigerDirect.com carries the 400mhz fsb 2.6ghz Northwood Pentium 4 as an oem chip (you have to buy the heatsink separately if you need one). They also carry a 2.8ghz 400mhz fsb Northwood which I'd never heard of before but don't buy it. I bought it and had to send it back as it turned out my mobo (p4t-e) didn't support it. Once my return clears though I'm going to order the 2.6.

 

[myocardia]

Okay, here's a link to it: 2.6A at TigerDirect. That may be his best bet, since it's going to cost him at least $400 to get a 2.8C.

 

[imported_bigblock]

will my board work with anything higher than 2.4 and or 400 fsb its rated at 2.4 ghz 400 fsb. my ram is 800 rambus

 

[imported_bigblock]

I thought I might get a nice boost at a very cheap price say 50 - 75 bucks, to tide me over. however I am researching a new system that will be built in about 7 months. hence 250 - 300 for board. now if the the boost is not going to be that great and its going to cost alot more than go with new board.

abit th711 raid
512 rambus
west. digital 80gb
a70 view sonic 60hz
msi ti4400
win xp pro

 

[SneakyStuff]

ooooo rambus ram, that stuff looked really REALLY awesome when it first came out, I bet it would absolutely HAUL in a game like unreal 2k4.

 

[imported_bigblock]

yea its nice. I am assuming that no one uses it anymore because of the cost. at least i have not seen much posted about it lately...

 

[LTC8K6]

He has a 1.9Ghz S478 Willy now. His board supports up to a 2.4/400fsb Northwood. I did not tell him to look for a 2.4A because the new Prescott is also called a 2.4A, just like the older Northwood.

 

[THUGSROOK]

ahem!......

please read the manual.
the th7II can support a 133fsb (533) cpu.
id suggest the 3.06ghz (533).

 

[LTC8K6]

I was going by ABIT's site.

Well, he's on a low budget, so I'll change that to a 2.4B then and that'll get rid of the 2.4A confusion.