Northwood 3ghz 512 800.

[krotchy]

I ripped apart my dell computer that is about 3 years old and salvaged everything I could for my new rig. However, the one piece I still have is a northwood pentium 4, as I upgraded to an opteron 170.

Is this processor worth keeping/selling? It says 3GHZ 512 800 on it, and has never been overlocked as it was in a Dell. I dont know much about the processor as my dad bought this computer, and I sort of came into possession of it after the fact.

 

[Geomagick]

In its day that was a very good chip, and even now if overclocked would still give some of the much higher clocked prescotts a run for their money.

Only keep it if you are going to use it, otherwise I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who would buy this chip.

 

[letdown427]

Intel users would be interested in it I should think, have a quick check on ebay to see prices. The northwoods ran much cooler than the ridiculous Prescott cores, and 3Ghz isn't really slow. + OC headroom will most probably be good.

Obviously, if you aren't going to use it, it makes sense to sell it, people will be interested.

I have a 2.4Ghz Northwood at home(4400+ now ), it easily went to 3Ghz(whereby my poor old MSI mobo would crap out, it didn't support CPUs over 3Ghz lol) I'm not guaranteeing you a 600Mhz+ OC, as silicon doesn't work like that, and as always, YMMV, but yeah, I'd say people would be interested in it, sell it = profit

Also, how are you finding that Hiper? I've got one aswell (black), it's been pretty awesome for me, you made any modifications to it? I've gone as far as softmounting the fans and removing the fan grills, it's really quiet, up until the temps start to cook, then that 80mm starts to hum a bit. I'm probably going to take it apart again and see if I can find the thermistor for the 80mm and try and move it around a bit, see if it'll keep it running low speed(quiet) for longer. Nice PSU though I've found. Looks awesome aswell, oh how I polish that shiny, shiny metal

 

[krotchy]

Originally posted by: letdown427
Intel users would be interested in it I should think, have a quick check on ebay to see prices. The northwoods ran much cooler than the ridiculous Prescott cores, and 3Ghz isn't really slow. + OC headroom will most probably be good.

Obviously, if you aren't going to use it, it makes sense to sell it, people will be interested.

I have a 2.4Ghz Northwood at home(4400+ now ), it easily went to 3Ghz(whereby my poor old MSI mobo would crap out, it didn't support CPUs over 3Ghz lol) I'm not guaranteeing you a 600Mhz+ OC, as silicon doesn't work like that, and as always, YMMV, but yeah, I'd say people would be interested in it, sell it = profit

Also, how are you finding that Hiper? I've got one aswell (black), it's been pretty awesome for me, you made any modifications to it? I've gone as far as softmounting the fans and removing the fan grills, it's really quiet, up until the temps start to cook, then that 80mm starts to hum a bit. I'm probably going to take it apart again and see if I can find the thermistor for the 80mm and try and move it around a bit, see if it'll keep it running low speed(quiet) for longer. Nice PSU though I've found. Looks awesome aswell, oh how I polish that shiny, shiny metal

Hmm, I suppose I will have to put it up on the FT/FS forum if it is actually worth selling. Thanks.

Also as far as the hiper goes, Its working great, it was easy to setup, and mine runs very very quiet. Probably the quietist thing in my CPU considering thse 7900GTs create a ton of noise. Even without them I pretty much have to put my ear up to it to hear it. I suppose it will be more noticeable If I ever change out my graphics heatsinks

 

[deeznuts]

Don't forget, that CPU is very robust for most things except gaming. Maybe a cheap build for fam or friend is in order. I am in a similar position. I have a 2.6C, that'll do 3.2GHz with HT. I am coupling this with a cheapo mobo, and some 512MB ram (good ram though, paid $200 back in the day! Twinmos BH5 DDR400). Everything else is budget, cheap vid card, etc. Good utility machine for everything except gaming.

 

[Ninjaneer]

Originally posted by: deeznuts
Don't forget, that CPU is very robust for most things except gaming. Maybe a cheap build for fam or friend is in order. I am in a similar position. I have a 2.6C, that'll do 3.2GHz with HT. I am coupling this with a cheapo mobo, and some 512MB ram (good ram though, paid $200 back in the day! Twinmos BH5 DDR400). Everything else is budget, cheap vid card, etc. Good utility machine for everything except gaming.

Are you saying it's not good for gaming because you get 15% lower FPS than an comparable athlon? I find it very hard to believe that a 3GHz chip from Intel is "bad" for gaming. I don't see hiccups from my XP 2600+, so I have a tough time swallowing the idea that this chip would be a bust at gaming.

 

[rstrohkirch]

You could pull $100~ for the cpu

 

[deeznuts]

Originally posted by: Ninjaneer

Originally posted by: deeznuts
Don't forget, that CPU is very robust for most things except gaming. Maybe a cheap build for fam or friend is in order. I am in a similar position. I have a 2.6C, that'll do 3.2GHz with HT. I am coupling this with a cheapo mobo, and some 512MB ram (good ram though, paid $200 back in the day! Twinmos BH5 DDR400). Everything else is budget, cheap vid card, etc. Good utility machine for everything except gaming.

Are you saying it's not good for gaming because you get 15% lower FPS than an comparable athlon? I find it very hard to believe that a 3GHz chip from Intel is "bad" for gaming. I don't see hiccups from my XP 2600+, so I have a tough time swallowing the idea that this chip would be a bust at gaming.

I was more or less referring to the extreme end of gaming. Newest games, 2x7900 or 1900's, big resolutions, all eye candy, etc. It's fine for me. I only play CS:S, thinking about BF2.

 

[F1shF4t]

That northwood should perform about as equally as a comparable single core athlon, and might even do better. Remember all these benchmarks are on ideal systems with fresh instals and nothing running in the background, now as soon as u chuck all the virus scans, firewall, msn messenger and all other tasks in a normal comp, the northwood will pull away from the similarly comparable athlon 64. For example my 3.2ghz northwood gave much more smooth performance than my athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.5ghz, UNTILL i turned the background tasks off then the athlon was a good amount faster.