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Who use a Pentium 4 in his main pc?

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I was using a P4 system for 4 years...until today! I put together a C2D system after buying my components one part at a time through slickdeals.

 
Have a P4 2.53Ghz with 512Mb of RDRam on an Asus P4T533-C MoBo that I am going to reserect along with a 3.6Ghz HT on an Intel 955xbk MoBo. Both served me well then and still will now.🙂
 
Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
Originally posted by: Visual
I guess that's the ancient S478 then? A pity intel doesn't have good upgrades for that...
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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
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Well aint this bitchen! Thugs, when you get this let us know how that goes. I would love to see some benchies on that board.
 
I've never owned a Pentium 4, but I do still use one at work. It's a 3.4 GHz model... no idea why the majority of the basic desktops have that processor in it. Seems a little ridiculous to me to put such a power hungry processor in a desktop machine that people use for simple stuff like email and office tasks.
 
Not in main but I've always been in good contact with them. They aren't THAT bad (I still use one for HTPC)
 
It's not my every day rig anymore but I've got a dual slot 1 P!!! 1GHz x 2, 2Gb PC133 RAM, FireGL 128mb AGP Pro video, SCSI 160 controller, Win2k Pro (previous NT4) ... hooked up to dual Mag 19-inch CRT monitors

It's as snappy, or snappier, as anything I got on day to day stuff, 2d line drawings, etc.

I've also got another dual P!!! I'm working on right now - OR840 mobo, 2x 933MHz slot 1s, 2 Gb RD ram 800. I've got an old Elsa AGP pro card for it. I need to scrounge up another slot 1 'URM' for it ...

If anybody has a retail copy of Win2k PM me ... 🙂
 
Very cheesy, but I got my current rig as a gift for getting all A's in sixth grade in 2003. It has a P4 2.6 HT, and since then it's gone 64Mb stockie (MX4000?) -> 256Mb 5200 -> 256Mb 6200.
Bought a Hanns*G HW223D (Replaced Dell 17"), Logitech X-530, Logitech G5, iRocks Scissor-Key keyboard, swapped stock 92mm for a rigged AeroCool LED 80mm, added a gig of PQI RAM (1.5Gb now), upped the DVD-ROM to an LG DVD Burner, got a 160Gb IDE to complement the factory 120Gb too...
Oh and I did a custom paintjob on the factory Dell case (Dimension 8300). Its a multilayered one where I used stencils to keep the lower layers showing through. <3 it 4 evar.
I really want to get something that can do CS: Source faster than 43fps on everything med-low right now, but also would rather wait for Nehalem, esp after the AT preview.
As far as power consumption goes, this machine used about 4 Kwh in the past 150 hours, that's with a fair amount of CS:S too. It idles at Windows desktop @ 60w and runs CS:S @ 120w.
 
Originally posted by: Drsignguy
Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
Originally posted by: Visual
I guess that's the ancient S478 then? A pity intel doesn't have good upgrades for that...
Click to expand...
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
Click to expand...




Well aint this bitchen! Thugs, when you get this let us know how that goes. I would love to see some benchies on that board.
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will do :beer:
 
The thing about the Pentium 4 is because of it's long lifetime, from 2000 to 2006 it has been in so many systems, so many business have pc's with Pentium 4.

And the last Pentium 4 from 2006, with 64bit and SSE3, socket 775 and DDR2 were very different from the first Pentium 4 in 2000, Intel could have probably make 3 different brand names instead of sticking to Pentium 4.
 
Never ran one.

I was running Athlon XPs (due to price) or A64s (due to performance) that time period.
 
Pete, its all about branding. People never heard of anything else but the Pentium 4 for years! The average consumer was confused by Athlon xp, 64, 64x2 and now x2. Pentium 4 had been there for over 6 years.
 
my last year in college i used a 2.26 p4. it wasnt even top of the time and i got out of college in 2003. and built that box in 2002

im pretty sure outside of a few things like dvd encoding and maybe playback of some higher end divx, i really would not notice the difference, since i hardly ever play games now. i still run XP which was the OS that was newly installed on that machine when it was built too.

i suppose the only reason i've upgraded much is i did play games for a bit 2-3 years ago (WoW when it came out) and its more a hobby than anything. But yeah I talk about this at work all the time. I spend so much time optimizing windows code, that I sit there thinking that in reality if we wrote fast enough code and stripped out everything from most boxes, a first gen p4 like a 1.4 ghz with 2GB of ram would be fine. I think for the most part 1-2gb ram and a very fast hard drive is all that makes a machine feel fast. A p4 2.0 is still twice as fast probably as a C7 1.2 ghz, and those seem to run the new net tops fine.
 
My main machine is this machine . I spend more time researching than gaming . So that makes the first PC I ever built my main PC. Sadly its going to be retired shortly as I am getting a C2D 8600 along A nw GPU. That will be my new browser pc. should be good fo 4/5 years like this one. Befor anyone says thats to much CPU for browsing I would also like to play with it a bit.
 
i still use P4 2.53ghz w/ 1g of DDR1 at 533mhz/winXP. It does everything i need it to do...office app's and direct access trading platform. The only problem I'm having is when I open trading platform, 1-2 chatrooms, skype, and live web conferencing software the cpu useage goes through the roof and system sometimes studders.

I have a new system coming next week:
Asus P5K-e
Q9450
4g DDR2 800Mhz 5-5-5-15
2 -Radeon HD 2600pro 256MB

 
I went from a 2.8GHz Northwood w/HT to a 4GHz C2Q on vaporphase back in 2006...now that was a kick in the pants.

I can't imagine the performance delta you all have in store for you whenever you upgrade from your P4's to a modern Yorkfield or Nehalem in another year's time.
 
Does anyone here use a Pentium 4 (especially a warmer Prescott) in a room without air-conditioning? Tomorrow my local forecast is 35 to 36 C (96 F). How much waste heat do you notice?

I used an Athlon XP 2500+ as my primary workstation cpu until this spring. Summers it would make my room quite toasty, and I often had to switch it off and resort to a notebook. We also had 2.8 GHz Pentium 4s as our primary office computers until late last summer. We once had three of them powered up in a smaller room (one stage beyond a cubicle), and despite (indirect) air-conditioning, the room became uncomfortable to sit in within a couple of hours.
 
Originally posted by: Winterpool
Does anyone here use a Pentium 4 (especially a warmer Prescott) in a room without air-conditioning? Tomorrow my local forecast is 35 to 36 C (96 F). How much waste heat do you notice?

I used an Athlon XP 2500+ as my primary workstation cpu until this spring. Summers it would make my room quite toasty, and I often had to switch it off and resort to a notebook. We also had 2.8 GHz Pentium 4s as our primary office computers until late last summer. We once had three of them powered up in a smaller room (one stage beyond a cubicle), and despite (indirect) air-conditioning, the room became uncomfortable to sit in within a couple of hours.
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P4 2.8ghz or higher could heat a small home in the dead of winter.
 
Replying to this thread on a 2.8c Northwood @3015ghz. Abit IC7,
1500mb's of Mushkin, 7600GT, Zalman cpu cooler and Zalman passive hs for the northbidge, etc.
In the last 3 weeks I've compiled about 5 shopping carts at Newegg with the 2.4 quad or 9450 and a P35 mb the nucleus of a new build.
For some reason I haven't pulled the trigger yet.
If it wasn't for a half of dozen or so new games out I would have no real need to update other than for the fun of it.
This P4 has served me well and will be passed to the wife [P3 850 ] 🙂 who is perfectly happy surfing/mail etc and says she doesn't need the P4.
By the way, the P3 850/Ti4200 has System Shock 2 on it so I'm keeping it around
 
Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
Originally posted by: Visual
I guess that's the ancient S478 then? A pity intel doesn't have good upgrades for that...
Click to expand...
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
Click to expand...

I saw that motherboard too, that would be a great board for someone sporting a 3GHz+ 478 P4 cpu that wanted to get some new cheap ddr2 ram and a nice PCI-e video card! And
using the Intel 945GC chipset. Not a bad looking board! 😉
 
Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
Originally posted by: Winterpool
Does anyone here use a Pentium 4 (especially a warmer Prescott) in a room without air-conditioning? Tomorrow my local forecast is 35 to 36 C (96 F). How much waste heat do you notice?

I used an Athlon XP 2500+ as my primary workstation cpu until this spring. Summers it would make my room quite toasty, and I often had to switch it off and resort to a notebook. We also had 2.8 GHz Pentium 4s as our primary office computers until late last summer. We once had three of them powered up in a smaller room (one stage beyond a cubicle), and despite (indirect) air-conditioning, the room became uncomfortable to sit in within a couple of hours.
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P4 2.8ghz or higher could heat a small home in the dead of winter.
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I still use the 3.6Ghz LGA775 prescott. And yes it can heat a home. Melts the Ice off my roof.

 
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