im trying to find if there are any P4 EE CPU's left out there to buy, ive tried all the places i know, but you guys know of more places.
can yall start naming off some of the websites where you buy your computer parts?
im looking specifically for a SL7CH 3.4 GHz Socket 478 Pentium 4 Extreme Edition CPU
ive already hit ebay, newegg, tiger, zipzoom, frys, craigslist, amazon, and a couple others
Pentium 4 Socket 478 Extreme Edition 3.4 GHz
Try this guy right here. 770-942-0021. If I'm not mistaken he has about 20 pc's with that same cpu in it. They also have a 36 gig scsi drive in them. The scsi is controller is built-in. Not sure if thats a plus or minus. I would have bought one had the controller been an add-in card. 200 bucks for the whole tower.
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Depends on what you are going to do with it. Web/database applications, etc ---> get the Core i7. Generic gaming/consumer stuff ---> Core 2.Neo wrote:Get Core 2 or Core i7... you know you want to. =P
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Uhh... nope, Atom is for ultra low power stuff. Core i7 (aka Nehalem) is a new micro-architecture to succeed the Core 2, however it won't be significantly faster at gaming than the Core 2 is. What it will be faster at is massive database work because of more and improved branch prediction and prefetchers. It will also improve upon virtualization, and be able to extract a bit more performance in a few spots because of the return of hyper-threading.
While some of this will help games, there are some things that will hurt games, for one the L2 cache is going from a massive 4-6 MB to a comparatively puny 256 KB. There is a 8 MB L3 cache to help and the memory controller is integrated on the CPU, however the L3 cache is slow and the memory controller can only do so much to hide the increased cache misses for games from a smaller L2.
In other words Core i7/Nehalem isn't meant for improving gaming/home/office/email/surfing or playing media files, instead it is targeted for server space.
Read on here: http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=480
While some of this will help games, there are some things that will hurt games, for one the L2 cache is going from a massive 4-6 MB to a comparatively puny 256 KB. There is a 8 MB L3 cache to help and the memory controller is integrated on the CPU, however the L3 cache is slow and the memory controller can only do so much to hide the increased cache misses for games from a smaller L2.
In other words Core i7/Nehalem isn't meant for improving gaming/home/office/email/surfing or playing media files, instead it is targeted for server space.
Read on here: http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=480
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I'll read that (again?) in a bit, but didn't Core i7 sm0ke Core 2 Extreme in gaming benchies?Krom wrote:Uhh... nope, Atom is for ultra low power stuff. Core i7 (aka Nehalem) is a new micro-architecture to succeed the Core 2, however it won't be significantly faster at gaming than the Core 2 is. What it will be faster at is massive database work because of more and improved branch prediction and prefetchers. It will also improve upon virtualization, and be able to extract a bit more performance in a few spots because of the return of hyper-threading.
While some of this will help games, there are some things that will hurt games, for one the L2 cache is going from a massive 4-6 MB to a comparatively puny 256 KB. There is a 8 MB L3 cache to help and the memory controller is integrated on the CPU, however the L3 cache is slow and the memory controller can only do so much to hide the increased cache misses for games from a smaller L2.
In other words Core i7/Nehalem isn't meant for improving gaming/home/office/email/surfing or playing media files, instead it is targeted for server space.
Read on here: http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=480
