new cpu

[Jan Smit]

Hello,

In about a week i will be buying myself a new CPU.
I was thinking: will I buy a P4 2.8 prescott or a P4 3.0 ghz with 512 cache.

Can anybody help me with my choice ? What would you do?

TIA.

 

[Onideus Mad Hatter]

Hello,

In about a week i will be buying myself a new CPU.
I was thinking: will I buy a P4 2.8 prescott or a P4 3.0 ghz with 512 cache.

Can anybody help me with my choice ? What would you do?

o_O

....well uh, I'm thinkin it would sorta depend on the mother board and what other components you've
got in there. Try and remember, you can't drive a McLaren F1 in a school zone. No sense in buying
a faster processor if the rest of your system is shit.

 

[kony]

Hello,

In about a week i will be buying myself a new CPU.
I was thinking: will I buy a P4 2.8 prescott or a P4 3.0 ghz with 512 cache.

Can anybody help me with my choice ? What would you do?

TIA.

I'd get the 2.4-2.8 Northwood and o'c it. That is, if you have decent
PC3200-3500 memory. Otherwise get the 3.0GHz Northwood. There's little
reason to choose a 2.8 Prescott.

 

[Jan Smit]

...well uh, I'm thinkin it would sorta depend on the mother board and what other components you've
got in there. Try and remember, you can't drive a McLaren F1 in a school zone. No sense in buying
a faster processor if the rest of your system is shit.

Well, i have a gigabyte motherboard that I just installed, and still running
my old 1700 Celeron (Yeah I know, it sucks, but I didn't know anything about
hardware back then ). It supports till a P4 3.2 (or 3.4 ... dunno exact).
Right now I have 2x256MB pc2100 DDR, which will be changed in 512 DDR PC3200
DDR.

Thanks for your answer

 

[Manny]

What model # is the Gigabyte motherboard? The reason is if the MB doesn't
support 800 mhz fsb then no need to get the P4-C processors. save abit of $.
Also if MB supports dual channel ddr ram and hyperthreading then it can
improve your performance.

 

[Jan Smit]

What model # is the Gigabyte motherboard? The reason is if the MB doesn't
support 800 mhz fsb then no need to get the P4-C processors. save abit of $.
Also if MB supports dual channel ddr ram and hyperthreading then it can
improve your performance.

It does support it. I double checked it when I bought it, to be sure I had a
800FSB mobo.

But I read a few times that the Northwood is faster than the Prescott, and
doesn't have the heat problems, so I think it'll be the Northwood 3.0 then.

Thanks to everyone.