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Soket 478 P4

Amp34

Amp34

Amp34

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One of my housemates wants to ge a new processor. At the moment he has a 2.6 non HT P4. Whats the best option for him for that socket? He wants to spend a max of about £100 which i assume would have to go towards a used one? He only uses it to browse online, word and play music so it wouldn't have to be top of the range. Would a celeron surfice?

I really dont know much about Intels so any help would be apreciated.

Thanks
 
If hes only going online and playing music can't see any point in spending more money as what hes got will do, i still have a P3 733 running doing the same with no problems and doesn't feel any slower than my P4 2.6 doing the same.
 
First off, don't touch a Celeron. Even the fastest Celerons will be slower than a 2.6GHz P4

He probably won't notice a huge benefit for what he needs. HT might be good to improve the responsiveness of windows. The fastest P4 for Socket 478 runs at 3.4GHz
 
i've got to agree with EYEREX and AJ here mate, if he's not gaming or doing anything heavy on his PC the added bonus of a HT enabled P4 wont be greatly noticed over what he's currently got.

again as AJ said, leave the Cellies alone... they're budget CPU's and even the top range 478 models (3.2GHz i believe??) will fair poorly against his current 2.6GHz Pentium 4.

if he honestly thinks his PC is lagging behind, perhaps persuade him to upgrade his ram? get some cheap 512mb sticks or something (OcUK Value perhaps)... nothing drastic as again, if he's not gaming or doing heavy tasks with the PC your not going to need huge amounts of memory.
 
The mobo is something that came with the packard bell pc, dont know what it is. At the moment his pc is running really slow but it hasnt been formatted ever i dont think. I have had a chat to him about getting another 512 mb RAM and a new faster (i am assuming the HD is 5400rpm) harddrive if formatting doesnt get the desired results. The main thing was whether he would see any difference with a hyperthreading chip, I would have thought there would be a slight difference, but not as much as new ram and HD?
 
Hi,
Im running a P4 2.53Ghz, its a good overclocker, running at 3Ghz at the moment. I find thats this cpu can still run the latest games, if its coupled with a good graphics card that is. I was also pondering a £80 spend on a used 3.2Ghz HT chip. As i thought I could overclock to around 4Ghz, but Im saving up for a complete rebuild and moving to pci-express. Hopefully a decent intel core duo mainboard wil be released. Some press are saying SLI and core duo is beating AMD X2 systems easily.

P4 2.6 is fine for general windows based tasks, just make sure the hard drive and ram are not the bottlenecks.
 
Thanks for the info. I'll have a chat with him about it later, see what he wants to do. It should be cheaper as well as ram and a new hd will be less. :)
 
hi there,i love my p4 478 3.4 @3.6 abit a17,never missed a beat.just brought a new mobo,asus pv4800d-x,478 pin with pci express,must be the only one about, and a sapphire x1800xt 256mb.used to get 12700 in 3d03.with an x800xtpe have to wait and see what i get when i build new components with my existing p4,let you know how i get on
 
So he's a question,

My p4 2.53 Ghz no HT, is ok, although oblivion chugs a bit at full detail, 1024x768. How much of a performance increase would I see upgrading to say a p4 3.2/3.4 HT. I'd probably get a second hand cpu.
 
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