from i7 to P4.

[dmxdex2020]

my core i7 chip has passed away so i am in the throws of getting it sorted. a friend of mine gave me his dads old rig which is a pentium 4 3.2 with a gig of ddr2 ram and an old pcie card. to my suprise running vista its very nippy. i though i was going to be waiting for ages for it to boot and to do simple things.

 

[Vision]

Sounds like its better than my dad's p4 lol

 

[shadowake]

P4's over 3GHz are actually pretty decent little chips, its the celerons that are useless **shudder**

 

[Redgie]

I heard someone say Celeron, I feel ill

As for the OP, CPU's with a speed that high are always going to be "nippy" in general usage, it's when you use something that thrives on multiple cores that you'll start to see problems.

 

[Tr Insanity]

What happened to the i7?

 

[jbloggs]

which is a pentium 4 3.2

The later Pentium 4s (both Precsotts and Northwoods) had Hyperthreading technology which was pretty good...

 

[Fonz-Valo]

The later Pentium 4s (both Precsotts and Northwoods) had Hyperthreading technology which was pretty good...

^ This

It was a shame about the temps of the HT cpus though

 

[sjcf1]

Overclock the p4 and watch the temps fly

What happened to the i7?

 

[PermaBanned]

Also, don't use Vista? Slitaz would be lighting fast, Ubuntu pretty nippy as well. Mint is worth a look if that's not your kind of thing.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

^ This

It was a shame about the temps of the HT cpus though

I remember reading on OcUK forums in 2003/4 that only the Prescotts ran hot, while the Northwoods ran more reasonably.

 

[Audigex]

The RAM is the only thing likely to let it down with vista - it really prefers 2gb+ for anything more than one task at a time, but I really could never see what all the vista-hating was about once the initial driver issues were sorted out.