Pentium IV for $1250?????

[Fenix793]

Not sure if this has been posted but its up on pricewatch. Expensive as hell.

 

[Noriaki]

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

*tears in his eyes from laughing so hard*


Holy F*CK!!!

Athlon 550: $330
Asus K7M: $230
Voodoo3: $150
128MB RAM: $150
SBLive! Value: $80
Linksys LNE100TX: $60
ATi TV-Wonder: $110
Case & PSU: $65
WD Expert 9Gig: $250
Yamaha 8x8x24: $300
Pioneer 10x DVD: $150

Ok that's about 1875...
All prices in canadian, so approx 1.5 exchange rate = 1250 US

All I'm missing from that setup is my 2nd hard drive.
And this is at prices over the last 2 years for this gear, It's not that expensive anymore...
All I need is a monitor and my 2nd hard drive and I could build my whole system for the price of a P4.


Edit:
oops I just upgraded my Video card to a Radeon and that cost me $450...so I'm a bit short...but still LOL!!!!
So that 2nd hard drive cost me about 250 (It's 17gig but only 5400rpm)
So for roughly the price of a P4 I've built my whole system minus Video card and 17" monitor.

Edit 2: Just for fun I checked out onvia.ca for that $330 for a 550 I could get a 900 TBird now...and an Asus A7V is about the same price as my K7M was...
That's a system with 28gigs of hard drive a DVD Rom and a CDRW with a900Mhz TBird for the price of a P4 hahah, I love it.

 

[Adul]

buahahahahhaa

I cant builda 700mhz duroin system with 128 MB of ram 30 GB HD geforce mx, 17" monitor, printer, sblive, and cd rom for less

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

But you guys, it makes the internet and photoshop FAST!! WOOOO!!

 

[ManBOO YA]

I read that the P4 is really slow as well, it is comparable in speed to a PIII 933.
AMD all the way!!!

 

[compuwiz1]

Yep, and now that we have the P4, what are we gonna put it in? :Q

 

[T2T III]

<< Yep, and now that we have the P4, what are we gonna put it in? >>


Not sure, Compuwiz, but when you get the new P4 processor running @ 2 GHz, please let us know.

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

<<<I read that the P4 is really slow as well, it is comparable in speed to a PIII 933.>>>

A naive assertation at best. Once the Anand/Sharky/Tomshardware/HardOCP/Arstechia benchmarks come out we'll know for sure.

This thing better be damned fast... the price is simply ridiculous!

But think about what this means for a sec... if the chip is for sale before it is officially announced, could this mean there are significant quantities available? Looking back at the 1 GHz P3 launch, it was 3 months before any vendors even listed GHz chips for sale....

I hope it rains P4s!

The only concern I have is lack of motherboards... the chip is useless if there's nowhere to put it

 

[noxipoo]

i'm sure its not avail. its prob just vendors trying to cash in early on preorders.

 

[Adul]

But how does it crack rc5, seti, and ogr

 

[ndee]

If this 1250$ is true, then it's even more overpriced than the GeFarce 2 Ultra
[Edit]*sarcasm*Naaaa, I know you don't say the truth you AMD Zealot!!! I found it for 1149$ on Pricewatch.com [/Edit]

 

[noxipoo]

2 geforce2ultra or 1 p4.... ah the world of overpriced computer hw

 

[beat mania]

P4 basically suck at integer, and is great at floating point. That's prolly why you see some say P4 is faster ... some say P4 is slower. And that's why intel's marketing it for the 'internet experience'.

 

[Eli]

It's so high because it just came out..

beat- Uhm, don't you have that backwards? The P4's double pumped ALUs should make it rock at Integer performance. It's FPU is weaker than the Pentium3's without iSSE2.

 

[FordLorider]

Yeah, like somebody said. We need to see some benchmarks from 'real' sources. Prices always start high.

 

[noxipoo]

its not out yet. wheres the ram and heatsinks and PSU and blah blah blah blah

 

[Noriaki]

<< P4 basically suck at integer, and is great at floating point. That's prolly why you see some say P4 is faster ... some say P4 is slower. And that's why intel's marketing it for the 'internet experience'. >>



That's backwards my friend. The P4's ALU is &quot;double-pumped&quot; or &quot;DDR&quot; or whatever tag word you want to use..anywyas the Arithmetic and Logic Unit runs at twice the speed of the rest of CPU. It's integer performance should kick some a$$...(RC5 cracker supreme?)

The FPU has been kicked up to 20 stages from 10 or 12 (in Athlon and P3 can't remember off hand which is which though), that means each clock cycle does less work...they have to up the speed quite a bit to get any decent FPU performance.
That's why you see P3/K7 1Ghz slamming the P4 around in FPU...
iSSE2 looks promising when stuff gets fully optimized for it, but x87 FPU power seems to be a weak line in P4...

Anyhow this is all theory...theory means crap.
I could tell you oh wow my athlon has 3 integer pipes compared to your P3's 2, I also have a fully pipelined separate FMUL unit, where as the P3's FMUL uses some of the FADD circuitry. I have 128k L1 cache compared to your p3's 32k. Makes the Athlon look pretty impressive no? When it comes right down to it, the chips perform very similarily, and I bought my athlon based on price and performance/dollar. I don't give a crap about the theory.
Wait and see how the beast performs. It may be quite a powerhouse, it may quite suck (either way I doubt it will be a good value for the power it offers...but we'll see..)