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What would be best? P4 1.7ghz or dual PIII 1ghz???

the room is allmost 30dC and i'm using it for multi track recording at a studio. that is very tough on the cpu's and i want it cool... check out the vapochill, only thing is that they don't support smp, only watercooling does.

Can't you clock a p4 pretty hard? i meen the vapochill keeps the cpu under -10 dC
 
400FSB is just 100FSB "quad pumped". I would go for the P4 anyway, you will have a greater upgrade path and as mentioned in another thread that this is for a recording studio the bandwidth of RDRAM could actually be useful, imagine that.
 
yeah, thats what i was thinking about, isn't 4*100mhz fsb faster and more usefull than 1*133mhz fsb?, but who knows when there is smp mobo out for the p4? it's alot of money, and i wanna use them right... for the future...
 
Depends, 2x133 or even 2x150 isnt shabby itself, plus PC166/DDR333 is on the horizon. The P4 also uses technology similar to DDR-II, where 4 reads or writes can occur per cycle, whereas the Athlon uses a DDR bus with 2 reads or writes per cycle. So the P4 isnt true quad data rate, which is 2 reads and 2 writes possible per cycle, full duplex memory if you will. The advantages of either is obvious when we're talking about the need for real time editing and such. You have stated you want to stay with Intel, but if you cannot wait for a dual P4 board to be available dual 1.4GHz Athlon MP's would be more than adequate I think.
 
ummm. p4 cant be dualed. u need xeons. dont start on the $$ there. =)

dual dual dual dual dual dual!! its a very much faster than any system ive ever used. =) plus it can crack at 5.10Mkeys. no point going water cooling guys. p3s are very "cold". why go water cooling when u dont need it?

p4 with water cooling and goodluck can get u to 2.2ghz or more. =)
 
other than the OS (NT,W2K,Linux .et all) the only benifit of multi processors are if the application you are using can also multi-thread...
 


<< yeah, thats what i was thinking about, isn't 4*100mhz fsb faster and more usefull than 1*133mhz fsb?, but who knows when there is smp mobo out for the p4? it's alot of money, and i wanna use them right... for the future... >>



fsb doesnt really matter. its part of the core architecure. read my other post in the other thread

http://store.yahoo.com/justdeals/riowpdvidual1.html

theres ur solution right there. i use it. look in my sig.
 
um, just a question, has there been any released info on the coppermine-T and Duelling? Cuz i wonder if that would be an option for ya?

EDIT: Oh, and many have said this before, but don't worry about the water cooling, there isn't much point to doing it with a non- extreame overclocked p3
 


<< other than the OS (NT,W2K,Linux .et all) the only benifit of multi processors are if the application you are using can also multi-thread... >>



Obviously you don't have a dual processor machine. Cause if you did, you would see a 30-110% increase on multi-thread programs and a 5-10% increase on ALL other programs. The reason? Since a single processor machine must share resources with the OS and the program it runs, the program never gets the full processor power. However if you run a program on a dual machine the OS gets one processor and the program gets full control of the other (a 5-10% speed increase for ALL programs).

Why don't you consider the dual P4 Xeons. It will add just $500-$1000 to the cost, and should really outperform the dual P3.
 
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