Retail boxed Pentium 4 3GHZ $175 with fan

[Beldar]

I went in today and bought a socket 478 3ghz cpu in a retail box today for 175.00 to upgrade my pc. That was lower then I could find online.

They also had one marked 775? I am not familiar with that pin set socket?

link to Pentium 4 478 processor

Link to Pentium 4 775 processor

Link to Celeron 2.6ghz 478 processor for $68

 

[ntdz]

...that's not even a good deal.

 

[Eureka]

775 is the newer Intel socket.

Norm

 

[Corporate Thug]

with the 3000+/3200+ venices so cheap, its hard to go intel

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Beldar
I went in today and bought a socket 478 3ghz cpu in a retail box today for 175.00 to upgrade my pc. That was lower then I could find online.

They also had one marked 775? I am not familiar with that pin set socket?

link to Pentium 4 478 processor

Link to Pentium 4 775 processor

Link to Celeron 2.6ghz 478 processor for $68

not many people are Intel fans nowaday . . .

anyway to the OP . . . you bought a Northwood proc, right?[liquidater specs say 1MB Cache . . . i believe it's 512MB . . .the Prescotts have 1MB but run hotter] - O/C it! . . . you should easily get 3.2+Ghz at default voltage from it
:thumbsup:

 

[russki]

newegg has a better cpu for 174.5 its same as yours but 2mb cache, you got ripped off

 

[KDKPSJ]

Originally posted by: russki
newegg has a better cpu for 174.5 its same as yours but 2mb cache, you got ripped off

And don't forget about 64-bit.

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: Beldar
I went in today and bought a socket 478 3ghz cpu in a retail box today for 175.00 to upgrade my pc. That was lower then I could find online.

They also had one marked 775? I am not familiar with that pin set socket?

link to Pentium 4 478 processor

Link to Pentium 4 775 processor

Link to Celeron 2.6ghz 478 processor for $68

not many people are Intel fans nowaday . . .

anyway to the OP . . . you bought a Northwood proc, right?[liquidater specs say 1MB Cache . . . i believe it's 512MB . . .the Prescotts have 1MB but run hotter] - O/C it! . . . you should easily get 3.2+Ghz at default voltage from it
:thumbsup:

The Prescott core also comes in s478 form as well as LGA775, so the specs that state 1MB of cache are most likely accurate. The Nothwoods haven't been manufactured in a long time, so just about any s478 P4 you find in a retail box nowadays is likely going to be a "E" series Prescott that not only won't OC worth a darn but will practically melt the MOSFETs on a lot of s478 boards that weren't designed to handle the Prescott's power requirements as well as the LGA775 boards.