Who use a Pentium 4 in his main pc?

[PeteRoy]

I use a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz HT since April 2004, It is in my main pc.

I wanted to upgrade many times but I didn't have money to upgrade and now that I can upgrade I want to wait for Nehalem and the next gen video cards.

How many here are not shame to admit they still use a Pentium 4?

And are you planning to get something else soon?

 

[myocardia]

I don't, but I like your idea for a poll about who still does.:beer:

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Not any more but I could certainly live with it.

 

[JujuFish]

*raises hand*
My desktop is sporting a P4 2.8C.

 

[Erock]

check sig...

 

[SexyK]

I'm not but my parents are running a 3.0GHz Prescott. Works like a charm for them, honestly not that bad.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Ive been using this PC since 2003. (Check Sig)

Its been serving me well for some time but its time for it to go. I demand way too much out of the machine nowadays, so you can count on my sig changing within the next month. Theres nothing shameful about owning a P4 (except maybe prescotts and its horrible derivatives). Especially when you had a 3.0GHz northwood which was one heck of a CPU back then. Even more so if you had the 30 Capper version.

 

[PeteRoy]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Cookie's Rig:
[Pentium4 3000MHz@stock (NW)/Zalman 7000b cu]
[Asus P4P800 Deluxe (i865pe/PAT)]
[2x1GB Kingston DDR400 (2.5-3-3-6)]
[PNY 6800 GT 256mb/Zalman vf900]
[Samsung Spinpoint 120GB 7200RPM]
[Corsair HX520W]
[Samsung 226BW]

Your system is very similar to mine

I have
Pentium 4 2800Mhz Prescott stock cooler
Intel Desktop Baord D865PERL
4x512MB DDR400 CL3
EVGA 6800GT 256MB stock
Western Digital 250GB

 

[Visual]

I guess that's the ancient S478 then? A pity intel doesn't have good upgrades for that...
My own system is even older than yours unfortunately - I think 2003. Also a dead socket, but 939, a newcastle a64, as back then intel was clearly inferior to AMD. Especially with the launch of the winchester athlons in 2004, you should've known better than buying a p4

But yeah, it may be old but it was still good enough for all that I used it. So I guess yours is good enough too.
Eventually I couldn't help it and recently switched my CPU with a cheap 939 x2, even though I had no real need for it. So from a certain viewpoint, the lack of upgrade ability for your intel rig is a good thing - it saved you from wasting money on upgrades you don't really need.

 

[OCBerserker]

I run a P4 D 840 at present. It's served me well (OC'd to 3.6GHz for years) but is showing signs of wanting to go down to the minors since uping from 7600GT SLIs to 9600GT SLIs

 

[mooseracing]

Still using them at my current employer, they are HP 4200 and HP Dc7700 workstations. We've been replacing them with Dell 755's that have C2D's 3.ghz and 6mb cache. Usually cuts compiling time in half.

 

[SlowSpyder]

My dad uses a 3.0GHz P4 (with Hyperthreading!) and it works fine for him. He runs XP, and has 2MB DSL, all he ever does with it is check hotmail, check stock quotes, and maybe read web pages about his Plymouth Duster that he's restoring. To tell you the truth I bet most people that belong to this forum could get by with much less processor then they have and would never notice the difference, but I guess their sigs wouldn't be as impressive then. For the record I don't use near the potential of my Phenom even, I just wanted to buy another system, I had my 939 system for 2 years.

 

[waffleironhead]

I have a p4 530(3.0) still rocking away. I can not justify buying any upgrades right now. Maybe next year, or the next. It still owns my dual 500 p3's in a p2b-d tho.

 

[happy medium]

I've been running my cpu since the end of 2002!(got it in a Dell)
I still can at least play most games out there.
The only thing I"ve changed is the case, board, psu and video card. (400$)
Still have the same cd writer, cpu, ram, floppy drive, hard drive, keyboard and mouse.

 

[judasmachine]

I got my C2D in Feb of 07 and have not missed my old 3.0C since. I did love my old A XP 1700+, though.

 

[THUGSROOK]

P4 3.2ee Gallatin on an Abit Ai7 @ 3.73ghz + Gainward 7800GS+ @ 600x1600

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: Visual
I guess that's the ancient S478 then? A pity intel doesn't have good upgrades for that...

but they do!

im gonna spill the beans here...

MSI just came out with a i945/ich7/socket 478/dual channel DDR2/PCI-E2.0 16x motherboard !!!

im gettin one :Q

MSI 945GCM478-L

Newegg $60US

 

[JonnyBlaze]

im still using a p4 3.0ghz northwood daily

 

[KentState]

I'm still using my P4 3.4C based desktop. The last game that I played on it was WoW, which was two years ago. I've wanted to upgrade many times over the last couple years, but I just don't see what I would do with a newer desktop. My laptop is has a T9300, though it's pretty much my main computer by now.

 

[Winterpool]

My parents' home computer was built around a 2.0 GHz Northwood until a year and a half ago, when they upgraded to an Athlon X2 3800+. My computers at work were mostly 2.8 GHz, but we finally replaced them with Core 2 Duo E6600s last year.

I've got two Pentium 4 desktops sitting dormant now and no idea what to do with them. The chips are too inefficient to run 24/7 as servers, and their OEM cases too cramped to hold more than a couple of hard drives.

Never liked the 'Netburst' architecture, it seemed to epitomise everything wrong about the Empire (bloated, inefficient, overheated). Like many of us I was an AMD man in that period. I'm very pleased that Intel was willing to jettison 'Netburst' and start over with 'Core'.

That said, most Pentium 4s are still sufficient to run everyday computing tasks. Has anyone done any estimates on how much higher your electricity bill would be, however, compared to switching to Core (or even a Brisbane Athlon X2)? Besides their age, the inefficiency of 'Netburst' is a major reason why I can't find any takers for my unused P4 machines.

 

[bastula]

used to run a p4 2.4C @ 2.95Ghz from 2003 march 2007...then i upgraded to an opteron 170 system, and now that is gone in favor of a c2q q9450 system.

 

[Wuzup101]

I'm currently using a 4 year old powerbook G4 as my primary computer... and I still use the desktop in my sig (AMD 2500+). I built the desktop in the summer of 2003. In any case, I just graduated, so as soon as I get a job, I'm going to be building myself a new system. However, these two are working just fine for the time being (I game on consoles at the moment haha...).

Ironically my father just brought home an old laptop from work... big honking HP/compaq with a 3ghz desktop P4 in it. It's a beast... still works well though

 

[OCGuy]

Why wait a year for nehalem? Why miss out on the cheap fun right now? DDR2 prices are in the toilet, $130 Wolfdales overclock like nobodys business, decent graphics cards are sub-$200. Now is the time!

 

[Mgz]

penitum D 915 here, not quite ancient as P4, but still the same Netburst' architecture

i clock it too 3.7ghz and it barely runs at the same performance as the E6300/E6400.

 

[MrJP]

P4B 2.4 here, since November 2002. Initially had my eye on a S754 3400+ as a replacement, then a S939 X2 3800+, then a E6600, but I've never quite got round to pressing the button on a new build. In that time I've gone from 512MB RAM to 2GB (via 1GB for a while), had 3 graphics cards (Ti4200, 9800XT, X1950Pro), 3 different monitors (19" Philips CRT, 19" Iiyama LCD, now lovely Benq FP241W) and many hard disks. For most of that time it's been overclocked to 2.8GHz, but I've backed that off in the last few months to keep temps down because the relative speed increase really doesn't make a difference any more. Now it really is getting too slow, so an E8400 build beckons once the new GPUs come out. This time, I'm definitely doing it. No way I'm waiting for Nehalem...