After a long, long time of being trapped with an ancient motherboard and ancient RAM, I finally got new of both a couple of days ago, and I can now finally harvest the true power of my P4.
The Pentium 4 Prescott Cores... Big, bad, hot, clockable. The big bad fuckas of CPUs. My RAM and mobo have been limiting me from clocking any more than to 3.3GHz from 3.0GHz. Pretty damn annoying knowing that you've got a CPU that can perform well over 4GHz, but being unable to use that. Well, now I can finally harvest that little extra you get with the Prescotts. The cange from DDR2-400 to DDR2-800 (Running at 1GHz) along with the change of motherboard from an intel i915G to a P35 is stunning, to say the least. Moving from no overclock to 40% overclock is a wonderful feeling.
It didn't take me many minutes to get up and huffin' at 4.2GHz. I could propably go even higher with more VCore, but I'd rather stop here, since this CPU might be passing on to DU, soon. Don't wanna risk frying the old baby.
40% overclocking, RAM running at 1GHz, SuperPI from ~50 seconds down to ~30 seconds! The performance increase is very, very notable. Portal ran almost twice as fast, lol. Worth noting is also that it runs really cool, somehow. It idles with the fan /Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro) on <1000RPM (Usually around 700) on under 40C. Never above 60 on the same RPM and 100% load.
On top of that, I'm getting my uncle's old lappy (Mid-2005) to replace my beaten and slow 466MHz Compaq Armada.
This year has certainly started in a good way on the hardware side, for me!
UPDATE:
The Pentium 4 Prescott Cores... Big, bad, hot, clockable. The big bad fuckas of CPUs. My RAM and mobo have been limiting me from clocking any more than to 3.3GHz from 3.0GHz. Pretty damn annoying knowing that you've got a CPU that can perform well over 4GHz, but being unable to use that. Well, now I can finally harvest that little extra you get with the Prescotts. The cange from DDR2-400 to DDR2-800 (Running at 1GHz) along with the change of motherboard from an intel i915G to a P35 is stunning, to say the least. Moving from no overclock to 40% overclock is a wonderful feeling.
It didn't take me many minutes to get up and huffin' at 4.2GHz. I could propably go even higher with more VCore, but I'd rather stop here, since this CPU might be passing on to DU, soon. Don't wanna risk frying the old baby.
40% overclocking, RAM running at 1GHz, SuperPI from ~50 seconds down to ~30 seconds! The performance increase is very, very notable. Portal ran almost twice as fast, lol. Worth noting is also that it runs really cool, somehow. It idles with the fan /Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro) on <1000RPM (Usually around 700) on under 40C. Never above 60 on the same RPM and 100% load.
On top of that, I'm getting my uncle's old lappy (Mid-2005) to replace my beaten and slow 466MHz Compaq Armada.
This year has certainly started in a good way on the hardware side, for me!
UPDATE:
Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2008-01-25 12:07:09)
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
