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Time to upgrade my Northwood P4

Looks like you use a computer for real work unlike the i5 2500k numpties who only look at gaming benchmarks....

I would bump up to the i7 2600k tbh - I've always said it's worth the extra much to the displeasure of everyone here.
 
sr4470 said:
Of course, I know that all too well. You may as well hold onto the this one as a backup machine, unless it makes enough money to contribute to the core i5 system.
Likewise on the integrated GPU, until it kept giving me rendering errors (ATI can't be bothered to solve a HD series compatibility problem in their driver). It would have struggled with Fallout New Vegas anyway though...
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I won't really fry it, but I like the old adage "better to burn out than to fade away". Like you say, it will be kept as back up. And if the iGPU at least lets me watch iPlayer in full screen then I'll be happy. The current set up can't even do that.
 
Tuppy_Glossop said:
I won't really fry it, but I like the old adage "better to burn out than to fade away". Like you say, it will be kept as back up. And if the iGPU at least lets me watch iPlayer in full screen then I'll be happy. The current set up can't even do that.
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Intel's "Extreme Graphics" doesn't have the multimedia extension support in hardware for HD video, so it'll max out the processor instead. On the other hand, even a lowly Sempron will play 720p clips with a GPU that has the right video acceleration features.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Well spotted... Also bung in a cheap passive 8400gs(98 core) and get your developer studio up with triple or quad displays
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Has anyone actually done that successfully yet with the HD3000? I haven't seen anything to suggest it will work, at least not without third party software. Even dynamic switching between discrete and integrated is problematic.
 
sr4470 said:
Has anyone actually done that successfully yet with the HD3000? I haven't seen anything to suggest it will work, at least not without third party software. Even dynamic switching between discrete and integrated is problematic.
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With UltraMon

I don't bother myself with Lucid Virtu - I'm not a gamer....
 
Tuppy_Glossop said:
Correct. At that time AMDs were probably slightly more popular. When I researched this upgrade it seems they are now quite a bit behind.
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yeah it was the AMD64 CPUs that was king then, I had a AMD64 FX55 and it cost me about £400, yes that was just for the cpu.:eek: That had a SuperPi of 32-34secs if I remember rightly and 6-7yrs down the line thats decreased now to 8secs with my current £170 cpu... Crazy
 
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Just posting to say that I loved my Northwood. I also got years of service out of mine. Then, when it started to show its age, I thought I would overclock it to try and get a little more life out of the old girl. Got an extra 400MHz with the same stock cooler and it was totally stable :p

One of my favorite ever CPUs.
 
Curio said:
Just posting to say that I loved my Northwood. I also got years of service out of mine. Then, when it started to show its age, I thought I would overclock it to try and get a little more life out of the old girl. Got an extra 400MHz with the same stock cooler and it was totally stable :p

One of my favorite ever CPUs.
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The P4 2.4C was the best - good for 3.2-3.3GHz, which was quicker than what they were selling at the time (3GHz) :D
 
Lots of love for the P4 ! The new case is proving very elusive. The original supplier (not OCUK) struggled to get a delivery date from the manufacturer and I noticed it on another supplier with a next day delivery option. So I cancelled the original and ordered a new one using the free delivery (not the expenny next day) and when I got the email confirmation it was coming from Europe and will take up to 8 days. *sulks*
 
Finally got the case and everything is running super smooth. Super Pi 1M is down to just over ten seconds without any tweaks. That's a minute shaved off ! And booting up is ridiculously quick, blink and you're there. Unbelievable.
 
linktoinsanity said:
I've still got one of those ticking away in my sister's computer. I wouldn't have it in my main PC anymore but it copes with web browsing and Windows 7, which is what she uses it for.

First commercial CPU with Hyperthreading I believe. :)
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I recently skipped a Pentium P3 from 1999 and was my five year olds computer running cbeebies games in flash on ubuntu. Was even starting to struggle even at that.

You've got to give it to hardware though - 13 years old and was still worked.
 
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