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"So I ended up withe rig I REALLY wanted in the end..."

Athlon 64 FX53 with 2GB Corsair 3200 XMS3200 PRO. The Prescott Pentium 4 is utter crap when it comes to 3D applications, heats to stupid amounts (even with intense cooling) dropping the performance down the equivalent of an Athlon 64 2500 around £150 cheaper. Worked very well for the first 20-30 minutes however after that frame rates would be massively hit due to Intel technology automatically dropping the CPU speed. On eBay at the moment so I have gone ahead and orded the above with the ABIT AS8 Motherboard. Still have the X800 XT Platinum Edition with 2 x Western Digital SATA 10,000 RPM Hard Drives. Got the best processor and RAM available to go with the hardware, finally.

The lesson learnt for this... only buy AMD platforms for gaming. The FX53 is what I really wanted originally but a massive £590 has set me back slightly even with the other hardware on eBay. A massive lesson learnt from my point of view though and my original fears of the Intel Prescott platform confirmed.

Just like John Prescott, when it gets hot the fat b*stard stops working ;)

*snigger*
*snort*

etc..

This is true, the Prescotts have maaassive pipelines, they're a bit of a joke in the geek world.

The irony:

A good old fashioned P3 clock for clock could take out any super hybrid prescott or Northwood...

Im still an intel fanboy though

This is how world war II started

So why don't they just make a huge one and use it to power the world? EH?

You do know, those things put out more heat per unit area than the surface of the sun.

Damn, what a processor. I could get one, i just dont wanna...

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Just like John Prescott, when it gets hot the fat b*stard stops
> working ;)

Open the left hand side of the case, stick a household fan in there, turn it on top speed, hey presto, no more Prescott effect, no more X800.

You've got too much money to waste.

Wanna buy me an X800? :P

Athlon 64 FX53 with 2GB Corsair 3200 XMS3200 PRO. The Prescott Pentium 4 is utter crap when it comes to 3D applications, heats to stupid amounts (even with intense cooling) dropping the performance down the equivalent of an Athlon 64 2500 around £150 cheaper. Worked very well for the first 20-30 minutes however after that frame rates would be massively hit due to Intel technology automatically dropping the CPU speed. On eBay at the moment so I have gone ahead and orded the above with the ABIT AS8 Motherboard. Still have the X800 XT Platinum Edition with 2 x Western Digital SATA 10,000 RPM Hard Drives. Got the best processor and RAM available to go with the hardware, finally.

The lesson learnt for this... only buy AMD platforms for gaming. The FX53 is what I really wanted originally but a massive £590 has set me back slightly even with the other hardware on eBay. A massive lesson learnt from my point of view though and my original fears of the Intel Prescott platform confirmed.

Just like John Prescott, when it gets hot the fat b*stard stops working ;)