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First post, by buckeye

Posted on 2017-02-28, 16:07

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Planning a P4 Win98 build but need some recommendation on motherboards for Willemette cpu's. Have a Northwood on hand but keep hearing negative stuff about them so going with a Willemette.

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Reply 1 of 9, by agent_x007

Posted on 2017-02-28, 16:25

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Willamette is like Celeron D on 180nm tech.
Northwood is a proper Pentium 4 CPU (with 130nm process).

What exacly is bad about Northwood, that isn't bad in Willamette ?

Reply 2 of 9, by buckeye

Posted on 2017-02-28, 17:50

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Might be I have my facts crossed. Believe heating issues was/is the culprit with Northwood? Regardless, if anyone can help me with a good mobo choice for a P4 (Northwood or otherwise) I'd be thankful.

Reply 3 of 9, by Jorpho

Posted on 2017-02-28, 18:16

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You will probably want something with the ICH7 chipset; anything else, and you may not be able to use a PCI sound card in DOS. Not that you'd necessarily want to do that.

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Reply 4 of 9, by Carlos S. M.

Posted on 2017-02-28, 20:38

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i haven't hard about negative stuff on Northwoods, but i did heard about Prescott

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Reply 5 of 9, by DonutKing

Posted on 2017-02-28, 20:53

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The difference between Northwood and Willamette is night and day - Northwood is much faster.
I've used a Willamette machine with SDRAM and it was an absolute slug- a Pentium 3 at nearly half the speed felt faster.
Northwood's weren't really known for being hot, at least compared to Prescott.

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Reply 6 of 9, by ODwilly

Posted on 2017-02-28, 21:05

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Heck, Willamette's have around the same TDP as Northwood's IIRC. Prescott's are hot, they run up in the 90-100+ TDP range.

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Reply 7 of 9, by nforce4max

Posted on 2017-03-01, 02:35

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Willemette is more for someone who has already built a number of 478 and 775 builds and just wants to give it a try for something different. If you can get the board along with the cpu and a cooler at a low or fair price then give it a try but do not pay a premium for something you can do for less money with a 478 build.

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Reply 8 of 9, by Gamecollector

Posted on 2017-03-01, 12:32

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ASUS P4P800 SE (and others MBs on the 865PE) - suppors all 3 s478 P4 cores - Willamette, Northwood (400, 533 and 800 FSB) and Prescott (533 and 800 FSB). Celeron and Celeron D are supported too.

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Reply 9 of 9, by vetz

Posted on 2017-03-01, 12:38

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nforce4max wrote:
Willemette is more for someone who has already built a number of 478 and 775 builds and just wants to give it a try for something different. If you can get the board along with the cpu and a cooler at a low or fair price then give it a try but do not pay a premium for something you can do for less money with a 478 build.

I agree. Only go Willamette if you plan on doing Socket 423 and RDRAM imo. Then you'll add some "flair" to it and get something other people don't have 😀

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