Prescott Throtling Issues

[lelliott731]

I am looking at getting a new system, and I was looking at some reviews at the new LGA775 P4's, and one thing that keeps coming up is the temperature and speed throtling. Has anyone here purchased one and noticed how it's throtling? I don't really want to buy a CPU and have it run at a lesser speed then what it's graded at. In fact, I wanted to mess around with some overclocking, but it sounds like that is now limited to only AMD and oldschool Socket 478 P4's. Does anyone have any rebuttles to this argument or thoughts? I'd appreciate any thoughts or comments, thanks!

 

[Duvie]

You answered your own question...Ocing??? I would not look at the prescott...It is too hot at stock vcore with stock hetasink so I would look at either a northwood p4 or amd64 chip....

I have not tested the throttling of a prescott but I have on my P4 setup now and I can tell you some boards are not posting correct temps anyways...My chip was ran at 66-68c (turned donw the rpms on my older ystech adjustable fan and it never throttled....

 

[gururu]

I agree. Although if you do get a nice HSF for overclocking then don't let all the hype distract you from buying Intel. If you game and are somewhat adept at troubleshooting a system, I have to recommend an AMD64 though. If you don't game, I'd seriously consider Intel (a prescott over a northwood and thats only because of the extra features like SSE3).
I'd say this overall in performance:

FX>>4000+>570>3800+>3500+>3200+>3.4>3.2>3000+>3.0>2.8