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What's the diff between P4 and P4 Prescott?

Scarpozzi

Scarpozzi

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Just looking at some vendors on pricewatch and noticed that there were 2 different options for each of the P4s... what is the difference?

BTW-
I'm in the market for a new CPU, Mobo, and RAM.... I've not built a system for about 3-4 years and am trying to find the best stuff for gaming possible... The last system I built was a PIII 800, so things have changed a lot on the system bus side. Any advice or deals...please PM me. Thanks. 🙂
 
I assume the other P4 they refer to is the Northwood core. Those run cooler than Prescotts. If you're looking to game, though, the Athlon 64 is a no-brainer.
 
Prescott has 1Mb cache and SSE3 support as opposed to Northwood's 512K and SSE2. It runs warmer than earlier P4's and is only faster in certain circumstances such as video encoding. There are some Prescotts with only a 533 bus and no Hyperthreading. A 2.4 and a 2.8. You don't want either of those.

If you want the fastest for gaming, then you want an AMD Athlon64, hands down. That's from an Intel fan.
 
its now two different p4's
she is either talking about HT and no HT (800mhz fsb and 533mhz fsb)
or the two cores northwood and presscot. northwood runs cooler and if genrally faster. in the presscot core they made 1mb cache DO NOT THINK THIS IS FASTER when they did this they had to change the instructions. go look at the benchmarks.

for gaming by the way make sure you get a AMD 64bit (a64) i would recommend socket 939 (s939), since 754 is dying out.

pm me with your decision.
 
I know the clocks on the AMDs are slower than the intels. Which one should I get at this time? I noticed that the 3000+ chips seem to be the best priced, but they're all pricey if you ask me. (the P4s are too!)
 
What they all said, Athlon64 939 pin Winchester. Whats the budget ? And what about video card ? You will probably need to update that too....
 
I've got an old GeForce2 Mx that I can bring from my previous system...I know it's nothing compared to the newest cards, but it's good enough to get me started until I can come up with more cash.

My budget is whatever it takes, but I have a house payment, car payment, boat payment, and credit cards... I'm just trying to keep it under $300 for the mobo-starting ram-processor
 
Yikes. Sounds like socket 754 time. Check outpost.com for the $199 (or $219) Athlon64 3200+ and mobo, and then get some Mushkin or whatever decent brand you like 512 meg PC3200 memory (about $70) That is in your budget....
 
are the G4ms going to be the right AGP spec? I mean WOW brining over a card that is slower than the Geforce DDR....You so sure about that?

What I would say is save for a while. Two months or so depending how much you can set aside for a PC.

But I agree with Mark~ S754 is definitely what you should be looking for, especially it seems you are the kind that sits on hardware rather than upgrade every day
 
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