best CPU for my old banger

[P4Clock]

i want a cheap upgrade for my Work / play (play at work) pc, and i would like to know you view on witch CPU is best for my old Skt 478 banger

my board support unlimited over clocking

i have seen 2 CPU's
1, P4 3.4ghz Prescott 800FSB (locked multiplier X??) biggest P4 i can find
2, Celeron D 3.0ghz 533FSB (locked multiplier X24) biggest Celeron i can find
i know there both crap so lets keep the CPU bashing to a min

if you know a better 478 CPU let me know. ior i may get a low cost 775 board

 

[Frozennova]

IMO, 478 is a dead socket the pentium 4's due to being on the netburst architechture we're slow for their clocks.

I'd look at getting a cheap LGA775 board and a Celeron E3200, this would cost around £80 plus around another £40 or so for some cheap ram if you dont have any, the E3200's are a cracking chip and will clock to 4ghz with little effort.

 

[mame]

Which CPU do you have now? I don't think it's worth bothering with really. I suppose if you had something like a P4 1.6ghz (we used to have PC's using these at work) and you could get the 3.4ghz for a tenner then it might be worth looking at but it's still a tiny upgrade on the scale of things that are out today.

 

[P4Clock]

right now i have a P4 2.26ghz but i can push that to 2.6

like i say it just a work machine and i play games when nobody is looking, there no relay CPU intensive game. i may just throw some money at a new case and move my play pc to work.

thanks anyway

 

[PhoenixUK]

Ditch the whole thing and if you look around for under 100quid you could get a cheap am3 setup that will kick the living daylight out of any p4. You're most likely to get a nice integrated GPU with the am3 boards as well ( ati hd4200 ).

After selling your current stuff it shouldn't cost you more than ~70 total.

 

[P4Clock]

cash is not a problem i just didnt want to drop a big bag of cash on a work pc.
my home PC ant too bad i may just send it to work and build a new toy

 

[Muel]

I spent £100 on upgrading an old 478 machine for my brother for christmas, I got a £17 motherboard and an E5300. It was the wrong route IMO, I so should have got a cheapy AM3 based system.