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Which to keep, which to sell?

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I'm being nagged to get rid of one of my systems :(

To be fair though they are taking up a lot of space in the spare room :D

I'm keeping the best system for gaming (socket 939) and want to keep another for general use (surfing, word processing etc.) The two I have to choose between are a socket 478 P4 3.0Ghz and an AMD64 3000 socket 754.

My guess is that it's probably best to keep the socket 754 system as it's based around a newer generation CPU and is likely to have a longer lifespan, but I'd be grateful for any advice.

Thanks ;)
 
For what you want to do; if the P4 was a Northy C and with a good 875/865 mobo, I'd be more than tempted to keep that. If it's a Prescott; I'd deffo keep the 754.

Just my 2ps
 
Thanks for the advice.

It's a Northwood 3.0Ghz with an 865 motherboard.

I was leaning towards keeping the 754 setup as I thought it will probably be around longer as it's 64 bit and the P4 is only 32 bit technology. Just my thought anyway.
 
Another thing worth thinking about is sticking Linux on it; if all you do with it is surf and office apps.

Again my 2ps - or maybe 10ps by now.

T
 
I'd keep the northwood. Northwood runs nice and cool like the A64, and packs a pretty nice punch too. That being said, you could probably sell that Northwood chip at a fairly high price :)

Mul
 
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