So I got my old p4 back but someone swapped my 3ghz Northwood with a 1.8 not sure why but I sold it a year and a half ago so I can't get to mad. Now is it worth the $19 to get a 3.4 chip and should I go Northwood or presscot. Also the 6800GS was replaced by a MX420 so I'm gonna toss either my 6800GT or x800XT in.
It's an abit IC-7G so 875P chipset
Last I checked the 3.2 Northwood is a good sweet spot, cheap, does not get super hot and speedy. That would be my suggestion!
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So the 3.4 isn't worth the extra 7-10 dollars over the 3.2 northwood?
If you dont have anthing else to do with the $10 then it would be worth it 😀 I would take the Northwood over the Prescott due to thermals alone. Also easier on the motherboard due to decreased thermal footprint.
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go with the 3.2 if your using a stock cheap aluminum cooler, but if your like me and like maxing out a motherboard then go with the 3.4ghz.... that's if you can find a good copper cooler.
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Unless Your Ram is incapable of higher speeds than 400mhz then I would just get the 3.2 and overclock it a bit.
I put a 3.2 Northwood in my Asus P4P800dlx and had no trouble reaching 3.5 stable and 3.6 for benchmarks
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Ram is 2x512 OCZ DDR-600 @ 3-3-3-7 So yea it can overclock
If you're happy with the speed of whatever games you're playing on this machine, or if you're not even playing games on this machine and it's just sitting in a corner collecting dust, then why not save your money?
Gosh, I'm turning into Jorpho. This can't be good. 🤣
But I agree 100%. You've got an X2-6000, XP-2500, and Sempr0n-2600. Surely one of those machines can handle the games you were planning to play on the P4?
wrote:So the 3.4 isn't worth the extra 7-10 dollars over the 3.2 northwood?
It's not.
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I've also got an athlon 64 3500 I just really like 2002-2005 it was my high school lan party years 🤣. Also I build em then put them away, the building/benchmarking is more fun to me.
