My employer is giving me the opportunity to order a PC for private purposes. I'm thinking about an Intel Pentium 4 - 400 MHz with accompanying motherboard.
What I would like to know if any Pulsar I user outthere has any experience with this processor/board in combination with the Pulsar.
Any comments/reccommendations/hints/tips are very welcome and highly appreciated!
the p4 is castrated by intel itself, and the boards really aren´t that good. rambus is much to expensive, and its follower won´t fit into its socket. you won´t be able to upgrade this system. (and all the nice stuff the p4 should have had from the beginning, which was taken out again, will come with the northwood-p4, and that one will get another socket... with intel it is like always )
Well...Mo...actually I guess the "Kinderkrankheiten" Problems are fixed by now since most of the developers I talk to develop now on P4 with these boards...Ok the so called DDR RAM (hell- who did create this name? I guess he lost some aspects of reality...) is really far from cheap, but the other points...
now we can say the more that the ddr-pieces cost represent the more it´s worth.
zer, i did not mean 'kinderkrankheiten', i meant the benchmarked performance. and with cusl2 and p3-coppermine there are indeed (in relativety) better values than with p4t and p4-willamette. intel would say, that´s the price for reaching higher frequencies, but amd shows quite well, that it has not to be so...
well, i hope p4-northwood won´t lack the nice features that willamette should have came with... otherwise i will settle for amd this autumn (with crush12-chipset *lechz*)...
...or did you also read about that new one-chip 'chipset' from sis? well, it´s just a prototype board out there in the moment, but the benchmarks <i>are very promising</i>, even better than amd760. and with direct connection of the pci-bus to the memory interface and to the cpu i think it will be quite good (better: very well suited) for running cards like our pulsar.
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