Reply 45000 of 53283, by Tetrium
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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-06-06, 00:56:PcBytes wrote on 2022-06-05, 21:02:cyclone3d wrote on 2022-06-05, 20:49:I have a couple of the 3.2Ghz Gallatin 478 EE CPUs. Got them a few years ago from the same seller who obviously didn't know what they were.
For the most part, the EE CPUs are just slightly higher clocked than the model right below it as far as the Pentium 4 CPUs go. There isn't really any reason to hunt for them as the bus speed can be overclocked and once you get the bus speed up high enough, you are going to need to lower the multiplier on the CPU anyway so even if a CPU has an unlocked multiplier it is pointless anyway.
Just as a curiosity, are Gallatin anywhere cooler than a Prescott? Or worse?
About much the same, they have lower clocks due to the bigger process node and worse power management, if they were clocked as high as the Presshot version @ 3.7ghz the Gallatin's would require some serious cooling, well beyond what the Presshot version does. (Gallatins also have higher core voltages which doesnt help when overclocking)
I wish there had been a Cedar Mill EE but being the last revision of Netburst they never made one and stopped at 3.6ghz but CM can run with a much higher FSB than 800 and due to the much lower core temps and voltages can clock to 4ghz without destroying the motherboard VRM and dont require stupid cooling solutions.
In a way Cedar Mill is a die-shrunk Prescott EE, it also came with 2M cache, same as Prescott EE (ordinary Prescott came with 1M).
Except for boards supporting Prescott EE but not Cedar Mill, I can't really see someone wanting to use the Prescott EE, it seems like a real furnace (lol FE aka Furnace Edition xD 😋 ).