chinny22 wrote on 2024-04-19, 00:38:Your always going to have a bottleneck. For me I'd prefer it to be the GPU over the CPU. […]
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Your always going to have a bottleneck. For me I'd prefer it to be the GPU over the CPU.
That said you could get a P4 motherboard with AGP and it'll do everything a Tualatin could do for much cheaper price.
Yes it'll be held back by the V3 but it's not going to hurt anything if money is tight.
On the flip side do you have any games been held back by the existing P3 800?
I know none of my 9x games require anything more than a P3 600. Once games start to struggle on that system, they are better off on my XP rig with more modern D3D Nvidia card.
If it's just a case you want a Tualatin because it'll make you happy and nothing to do with performance then thats totally fine as well. Thats why most my PC's are built!
THIS!
After getting a "bargain" on a V3, I checked a lot of benchmarks to see how games were CPU bonded around 1999-2001... From what I remember, 1.2Ghz was were you'd reach the inflection point with a V3. So took an early P4 with universal AGP because: a) they're cheaper like you said, b) I wanted a small PC and micro-ATX was a lot more common and c) you get a lot more speed from DDR ram and raw power (if you get a 1.7 or 1.8ghz). So all you have to focus on, is optimizing your GPU.
Athlon64 3200+, 1Gb, HD3650 AGP, SB Audigy 2ZS
P4 1.8Ghz, 512Mb, Voodoo3, SBLive
P3 866Mhz, 384Mb, Riva TNT2 AGP, SBLive
P2 350Mhz, 128Mb, Savage 4, SBLive
P233 MMX, 64Mb, Mystique 220, V2, SB 32
P100, 32Mb , S3 Virge, AWE64, WavetablePi & PicoGus v2