Real world P4 performance?

[oblivion2888]

can anyone with a p4 please provide some insight into overall feel, speed, and stability of a p4 system?

 

[Duvie]

drop FKloster or Wingznut a PM...they can give you an idea on gaming as well as some other uses...

 

[Jgtdragon]

Well, feels super fast. Could be my scsi setup as well. All I can say is it doesn't slow down on anything. I am happy.

 

[Duvie]

One sidenote and I am not trying to start a flame war, just thought this was interesting. A fellow employee was having me build him a system and then last minute wife convinced him to go dell where he got the p4 1.3 they had on special about a month ago. He hates it...Maybe more so he hates how his brother dumped his p3 800 system for a 1.2gig (266) tbird and he says it kills his system. They each have geforce 2 mx's...He said it overall feels slower then his brother's system. I checked and he did get 7200rpm drive and his brother is only using the pc133 sdram.

I think the lower p4's bite from some reviews and ppl around here...Get the 1.5 or greater. I think the ramp up of speed really helps these chips. Pus it seems that the chips have a 300mhz gap so 1.7 will run like a 1.4amd...a 1.3 probably feels like a p3 1ghz.

 

[Jgtdragon]

Duvie,
Is your co-worker's Dell system running Pc-600 rimms? P4 with PC-600 do suffer in performance.

 

[Duvie]

I think that sounds right, but I am not 100 percent certain...Do they usually couple the 1.3 with the pc600 rimms? I don't know if Dell is running i850 platform but according to sandra the pc600 still should have a sizeable bandwidth lead on the sdram pc133...i840 it drops down to kt133a levels...i will have to ask him on that.

 

[damocles]

If gaming was a factor, i think both systems would be hampered by the MX's also. You want want a faster card to let the systems throttle out a bit

 

[damocles]

I can tell you that everything i have seen regarding the stability of the P4 has been very positive.

 

[Digobick]

My brother just got a Dell P4 1.7Ghz with 128MB PC800 RDRAM. Overall performance feels extremely fast, but I don't have any high speed Athlons yet to compare it to.

 

[oblivion2888]

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[Wingznut]

Check the link in my sig, for my PC's specs... And I know what most of you are going to say. "Well, he works for Intel. So, of course he's only going to hype it up." Well, that's not true. This is probably the very first time that I've posted about how much I like this setup. If I didn't like it, I doubt you would see me screaming "Intel sucks." But I certainly wouldn't lie about it, either.

But I have nothing but good things to say about the P4-1.7 and Asus P4T. It's real fast, noticably faster than my P3-1ghz, in pretty much every respect. Stability? I can't say enough about stability. I have my PC in a compartment in my desk. Here's a pic. With the door closed, there's absolutely no ventilation. And I can leave the door closed all day, and it will never overheat on me. Nor will it ever lock up. Sure, it'll get pretty warm in there, and generally I don't like to leave the door closed. But sometimes it is. And frankly, it surprised me that it hasn't caused any issues.

I honestly had never seen a P4 cpu before. Yeah, I know... I work for Intel. I've seen thousands and thousands of dies and wafers, but never one packaged. The first thing that came to mind as I saw the cpu, motherboard, and heatsink was "QUALITY". The way the heatsink attaches to the case, instead of clipping to the socket is very impressive. It's totally a "Why didn't someone think of this before?" situation. Everything about this combination just screams quality.

Outside of price, I cannot see a reason not to go with this setup. Speed, stability, compatibility, no workarounds, no issues whatsoever... No worries.

And that's Wingznut the PC enthusiast talking. Not Wingznut the Intel employee. I was an enthusiast long before I was an Intel employee. And I can honestly say, that this is the most satisfying system that I've ever assembled.

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

I am running on my P4 1.4GHz rig right now, and it seems alot quicker than my bro's P3 1 GHz. I was upgrading from a P3 650, so I felt a pretty big speed difference. One thing that I just did to increase the performance by 60% was to add more ram. I was only operating on 128meg of PC600. I am now running 256 meg of PC800 and the system feels so much faster. I don't have an AMD 1GHz+ system to compare to, but I can multitask lots of high-memory apps (5 IE windows, Adobe Image Ready, Jasc Paint shop Pro, MS Frontpage XP, MS Word XP, and an MP3 playing), and still don't feel any slow downs.

 

[damocles]

Nice idea, if only my desk had cupboards

 

[julianf]

i'm just got a p4 1.7 @ 2271.81 in a vapochill cab.
that things beats of any g4 733, no problem... i don't know about amd... but clocking is damn easy! and it performs better than anything i've ever been infront... (working at music store, lots of service calls)