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"Which P4 is which?"

I have been offered a cheap P4 by my mate and was just looking for a motherboard. The thing is theres a S478 chipset and a S423 chipset. Whats the difference? Can I tell easily which one I need?

Not as fast as mine!

I don't pretend to know much about computers, but my next PC will basically be the most powerful single chip PC you can buy:

Atlon XP1900+
512mb DDR
GeForce 3
High quality mobo, blah blah blah...

All in a Antec SX1030B case (thanks Andi!)

Sssswwwweeeeeettttt...

The reason i'm getting a P4 is because its at a VERY good price for a 1.8 ghz chip. Also I have this motherboad in mind for it. Gigabyte, 2 normal IDE sockets plus 2 IDE RAID, onboard sound with the creative 4 channel chipset, realtek onboard lan and 6 pci slots.

I know athlons are great. I currently use a 1 Ghz one but need to get faster and how fast is a 1.8 ghz 512 ram beast with two 40 gig 7200rpm disks raid striped together gonna be? Fecking fast. I carn't wait.

Truth is, that's only true for software where developers bother spending the time adding the extra code. Before, when Intel had the market sown up, this would have made much more sense. Now it seems the only applications the P4 is edging ahead in is those taking advantage of SSE2, and even then the 2GHz model only edged it over the t-bird 1.4. At 3 times the price, P4s really do have a lot of work to do to compete...especially with the XP series now.

Don't Tiny use Athlon cpus?
+ why are Pentium cpus so expensive?

OrigHawk wrote:
> Exactly athlons kick the crap out of Pentiums this has been proved time and time
> again. If you don't believe me look at the benchmarks.


But not for long.

The P4 has extra commands that, when written into the code, allow for blistering performance. Only the software has to be written specially with this in mind.

It will happen, over the next 9-12 months or so.

Remember that AMDs K-6 range had the 3D-NOW! extra commands, and games developers wrote specially for that, and there were a lot fewer users of the K6 than there will be the P4.

So it will be supported, it will make a difference, it'll just take a bit of time until the P4 is in a few more systems.

It's frustrating that Special Reserve continue to use Intel chips for their PCs. They could make more powerful systems for less (i.e. make more profit)!

Exactly athlons kick the crap out of Pentiums this has been proved time and time again. If you don't believe me look at the benchmarks.

Why the hell would you want a P4? I bet you could get an XP1900+ for the same proce or less with vastly much greater performance.

P4??

*Whooo spits

Is he paying you to take them then? :D

cheers