The boards are full of people decrying the new prescott cpu saying it is rubbish compared with the northwood so I thought I wouls relate my experience.
I wanted to update my old P4 2.4 533 as I have a P4P800 Asus mobo and obviously needed an 800 fsb cpu.
Looking on the web ( I live in UK ) I found Watford Savastore had Both Northwood and Prescott 2.8 cpus at the same price so I thought what the hell, I know there is all this talk but at the end of the day Prescott is the new chip.
It duly arrived and I stuck it in with some trepidation, my old P4 2.4 533 was happily running a stock 30% o|c on my P4P800D.
Stuck the settings to 30% and nothing happened, would not even boot, Oh S--t I thought, Ive made a mistake here.
Went to manual O\C and set the fsb at 250 and my 2700 memory at 3200 with MAM and HT enabled. Booted perfectly into windows and ran all evening with UT 2004, Call of duty and Command and conquer, no problems at all.
I have a chip that cost the same as a northwood 2.8 but is latest technology, it runs happily at 1000 fsb with a 25%o\c which by any standards is a solid achievement and I have no doubt that I could run an even faster setup with faster memory as I am sure it is the memory stopping me getting the simple 30% on the P4P800.
I wanted to update my old P4 2.4 533 as I have a P4P800 Asus mobo and obviously needed an 800 fsb cpu.
Looking on the web ( I live in UK ) I found Watford Savastore had Both Northwood and Prescott 2.8 cpus at the same price so I thought what the hell, I know there is all this talk but at the end of the day Prescott is the new chip.
It duly arrived and I stuck it in with some trepidation, my old P4 2.4 533 was happily running a stock 30% o|c on my P4P800D.
Stuck the settings to 30% and nothing happened, would not even boot, Oh S--t I thought, Ive made a mistake here.
Went to manual O\C and set the fsb at 250 and my 2700 memory at 3200 with MAM and HT enabled. Booted perfectly into windows and ran all evening with UT 2004, Call of duty and Command and conquer, no problems at all.
I have a chip that cost the same as a northwood 2.8 but is latest technology, it runs happily at 1000 fsb with a 25%o\c which by any standards is a solid achievement and I have no doubt that I could run an even faster setup with faster memory as I am sure it is the memory stopping me getting the simple 30% on the P4P800.
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