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Time to upgrade my Northwood P4

HL2 think i had a ATI 9800 too but only had the AMD single core 3400 i think, it did ok that was my first attempts into OC to get it to run just 2-3 frams better lol. epic fail but good lesson in heat issues ;)
 
lol at the cpu - I think you and I have a similar spec and Im in the process of upgrading as well..
Will post a cpu-z this weekend so us vintage pc'ers can chat about how they don't make them like they used to....
 
bainbridge said:
If there is a sticker in the middle of the fan you could peel it back possibly exposing the bearings, a drop of 3 in 1 will sort it out (did that on an Athlon 1800 cooler when it got squeaky & ran it fine for another 2 yrs).
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Do they still make 3 in 1 ? It reminds me of BMXs and Nitromors ! ?

edgedemon said:
lol at the cpu - I think you and I have a similar spec and Im in the process of upgrading as well..
Will post a cpu-z this weekend so us vintage pc'ers can chat about how they don't make them like they used to....
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I hope they do make them like they used to. If I get another 9 years I'll be made up.
 
Similar leap here.

I went from a Athlon XP 3200+ barton to a 2600k. I think the 3200+ had similar performance to a P4, though I can't really remember.

I did miss the ability to make a coffee while windows booted up :p
 
You can let your P4 have a beauty rest. It has done it's job well. I also have run an Athlon64 XP for 5-6 years until I upgraded to i5 last November. (IIRC the Athlon XP was better than the P4 that is why I got it instead).

|Going i5 2500K is a massive upgrade in every way.

Congratulations.
 
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part of me wishes I didn't stay on top of my pc so I could experience this.... I remember the days of switching from a dreadful P4 laptop to a centrino which was night and day, then it happened again when I went from air to liquid cooling, a bog standard 19" tft to a Dell 2405FPW, an X800XTPE to an 8800GTX and then from a mechanical to a solid state hard drive.

I think those are the only times I've had proper changes that really stopped me in my tracks.

The other countless GFX/CPU/RAM/Mobo "upgrades" have just been ticks rather than tocks if you get me.

Good luck OP!
 
Yep, the CPU and iGPU are huge upgrades but I'm also going from IDE HD to SATA III SSD and SATA III HD and from 1GB of PC3200 RAM to 8GB of PC3-12800. And XP to Win 7.

Zoiks.
 
On a smaller scale, one of the smaller jumps I made was moving from a CD Rewriter to a DVD rewriter.

I was amazed at how much data you could now fit on one disc haha :p
 
A P4 is very old and out of date now.

I bought a AMD64 3200+ back then as AMD was king and knocked intel for six. (No i'm not a AMD fanboy) P4 sucked.


But Intel's newer CPU's are far better than AMD's faildoser. So you will definitely see the difference with a new processor. Upgrade is a must now.:)
 
Not with the northwoods, it's really depended on what you were doing with it but amd only pulled decisively in front with the a64.
 
Tuppy_Glossop said:
My first post ! Since 2003 I have been running my tower with a P4 3.06 HT at its heart. It has never been OCd and has only ever had the stock cooler on. What a workhorse of a CPU. It has outlived two monitors, a motherboard, and a graphics card. Only the WD HD, Soundblaster card, and Thermaltake case have survived as long.

I'm upgrading to an i5 2500K and I'm not sure if I'm ready. It'll be like going from a Mini Metro (Fiat 500 if you're young) to a Porsche.
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Unfortunately as processors have become ever faster and memory cheaper/higher capacity programmers have taken it upon their responsibility it seems to produce bloaty software.

With that said you will still notice a massive jump, you'll also be able to play watch 1080p movies and have the horsepower to upscale DVD to near HD resolution on the fly.
 
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