P4 Northwood 3.4GHz in P4C800E-Dlx

[John]

Does anyoen know if the P4 Northwood 3.4GHz w/512KB flash CPU works in
the P4C800-E Deluxe. I have a 3.0GHz CPU in there today that was going
to move down to another system and buy the Northwood for my main box if
it works. Anyone running it? I want to stay away from the 1MB cache
because of the heat issues.

- JA

 

[ivan]

Does anyoen know if the P4 Northwood 3.4GHz w/512KB flash CPU works in
the P4C800-E Deluxe. I have a 3.0GHz CPU in there today that was going
to move down to another system and buy the Northwood for my main box if
it works. Anyone running it? I want to stay away from the 1MB cache
because of the heat issues.

- JA

Yes it does.

 

[Scott]

Yes it does; Make sure you have bios revision 1015 or later FIRST before you
upgrade the speed. It might not boot if you do not.

I am not wild about the prescott core in 478 pin array either, dies to what
you mention; it is simply too hot to be over clocking, but if you have the
right OC cooling, the prescott core can be way OC'D much higher then the
Northwood core!!

if you can afford it get the 3.4 extreme edition with level 3 cache of 2
megs;

That one rocks in all the benchmarks, but as per usual, theiving Intel
charges you nearly 4 times the price, which I Consider to be absolute
theivery. Im not upgrading my 3 gig Northwood until the Prescott core is
over 4 megs, then I will do the MB/CPU upgrade, but I might also go back to
the AMD 939 FX platform, mainly because I own ALLOT OF STOCK IN AMD!! (hey I
own AMD, shouldnt I be able to get "free" stuff? LOL!!)

 

[@ndrew]

Yes it does; Make sure you have bios revision 1015 or later FIRST
before you upgrade the speed. It might not boot if you do not.

I am not wild about the prescott core in 478 pin array either, dies
to what you mention; it is simply too hot to be over clocking, but if
you have the right OC cooling, the prescott core can be way OC'D
much higher then the Northwood core!!

if you can afford it get the 3.4 extreme edition with level 3 cache
of 2 megs;

That one rocks in all the benchmarks, but as per usual, theiving
Intel charges you nearly 4 times the price, which I Consider to be
absolute theivery. Im not upgrading my 3 gig Northwood until the
Prescott core is over 4 megs, then I will do the MB/CPU upgrade, but
I might also go back to the AMD 939 FX platform, mainly because I own
ALLOT OF STOCK IN AMD!! (hey I own AMD, shouldnt I be able to get
"free" stuff? LOL!!)

Fair enough seems like Intel have dropped the ball here .. shame really
... the 939's are really looking good.

regards

@ndrew