Should I upgrade to Canterwood or wait?

[Krk3561]

I'm tempted to upgrade to a Canterwood motherboard because I really want to do some OCing with my 2.4B C1.

Here are my current systems relevant specs:
[*]P4 2.4B C1 SL6EF
[*]GA-8IHXP 850E motherboard
[*]512MB PC1066 RDRAM
[*]Radeon 9500 Pro

 

[AtomicDude512]

Originally posted by: Krk3561
I'm tempted to upgrade to a Canterwood motherboard because I really want to do some OCing with my 2.4B C1.

Here are my current systems relevant specs:
[*]P4 2.4B C1 SL6EF
[*]GA-8IHXP 850E motherboard
[*]512MB PC1066 RDRAM
[*]Radeon 9500 Pro

I wouldnt, in Anand's benchmarks the 875 didnt show much of a performance improvement and the Intel Application Accelerator will only (this is a rumor) work with SATA RAID from now on. And I would also not get a Prescott as Intel has again lenghened the pipeline again, so it will have even less IPC.

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: AtomicDude512
And I would also not get a Prescott as Intel has again lenghened the pipeline again, so it will have even less IPC.

Man, when are ignorant statements like this going to stop.. it's starting to make me want to stay away from the forum

🙁

According to almost every source, Prescott will be 10-15% faster than an equivalently clocked Northwood.

 

[Krk3561]

Whats IPC?

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: Krk3561
Whats IPC?

Instructions Per Clock. Basically, it's how much work a given processor can do per clock cycle. Northwoods have a lower IPC than Athlon XPs, but thanks to their advantage in clock speed they still perform equally or marginally better 99% of the time.

EDIT: Anyway, in reference to your origonal question, Anand's review of i875P compares it against i850e with PC800 RDRAM. Your current setup will most likely outperform i875P most of the time. If you want to overclock, why don't you reduce the RAM multiplier to 3x and start to jack up the FSB from there. MOst likeyly, by the time you hit the chips limit you'll be close to PC1000 speeds again on the ram.

 

[oldfart]

Originally posted by: AtomicDude512
And I would also not get a Prescott as Intel has again lenghened the pipeline again, so it will have even less IPC.

BWWWAAAAAH!!

You are nuts! Prescott will rock! Twice the L1, twice the L2 (1 Meg)QQ, .09u, Hyperthreading II, 800 MHz FSB. Um, I think it will be OK.

 

[DOOPYLOOPY]

if you have an 850E i would definitely not upgrade.

 

[oldfart]

I see you are running a 2.4B C1 @ 2.52. Pretty low overclock. Can the CPU go higher? Did you test using a 3X mem setting instead of 4X?

 

[Krk3561]

The motherboard can only go up to 156FSB. And I'm sure the CPU can go higher than what I'm at right now, its just that I haven't tried yet. I've heard a lot too that RDRAM motherboards suck at OCing. I want to get to 166FSB so I can run at 3GHz. Should I maybe get a mobo like the Abit BH7 which is inexpensive (I can just save for the next chipset after canterwood and springdale) and a good OCer, or is it not worth it?

 

[Krk3561]

^

 

[boyRacer]

I wouldn't upgrade if i were you... 🙂

 

[jbond04]

Originally posted by: SexyK

Originally posted by: AtomicDude512
And I would also not get a Prescott as Intel has again lenghened the pipeline again, so it will have even less IPC.

Man, when are ignorant statements like this going to stop.. it's starting to make me want to stay away from the forum

🙁

According to almost every source, Prescott will be 10-15% faster than an equivalently clocked Northwood.

People used to laugh at the Pentium 4's pipeline length, too. I don't hear them laughing anymore...

 

[Zrom999]

You already got a good system. Why waste money?