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Fastest practical CPU for P4T-E
I'm using a P4T-E for my Internet machine. Currently running
Northwood 1.6Ghz with 1.5GB Rambus. Given that browsers and downloading tools are getting more CPU and Ram-hungry, I was thinking about speeding up the machine. Ordinarily I'd just opt for another motherboard, but since this already has 1.5 GB Rambus, it doesn't warrant swapping the motherboard. Given that Rambus is at a dead end, I hate to buy more ram too. So...in general, how much benefit could be had from a faster CPU...Say 3Ghz? (Subjective, I know...a wild guess is fine). And how fast a CPU will the P4T-E accommodate? I guess I'd have diminishing returns given the 400mhz fsb, so I'm not looking to go beyond 3ghz (if that's even possible). |
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Get your cake and eat it too! Sell that rambus! With the money you get
from the rambus, uoi can get a motherboard and ddr ram! _|_|_ ) wrote: : I'm using a P4T-E for my Internet machine. Currently running : Northwood 1.6Ghz with 1.5GB Rambus. Given that browsers and : downloading tools are getting more CPU and Ram-hungry, I : was thinking about speeding up the machine. : Ordinarily I'd just opt for another motherboard, but since this : already has 1.5 GB Rambus, it doesn't warrant swapping the : motherboard. Given that Rambus is at a dead end, I hate to : buy more ram too. : So...in general, how much benefit could be had from a faster : CPU...Say 3Ghz? (Subjective, I know...a wild guess is fine). : And how fast a CPU will the P4T-E accommodate? I guess : I'd have diminishing returns given the 400mhz fsb, so I'm not : looking to go beyond 3ghz (if that's even possible). |
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wrote: I'm using a P4T-E for my Internet machine. Currently running Northwood 1.6Ghz with 1.5GB Rambus. Given that browsers and downloading tools are getting more CPU and Ram-hungry, I was thinking about speeding up the machine. Ordinarily I'd just opt for another motherboard, but since this already has 1.5 GB Rambus, it doesn't warrant swapping the motherboard. Given that Rambus is at a dead end, I hate to buy more ram too. So...in general, how much benefit could be had from a faster CPU...Say 3Ghz? (Subjective, I know...a wild guess is fine). And how fast a CPU will the P4T-E accommodate? I guess I'd have diminishing returns given the 400mhz fsb, so I'm not looking to go beyond 3ghz (if that's even possible). Powerleap sells 2.8GHz/FSB400/512KB for $162. It will go 2.8/1.6 times faster (when not limited by the FSB). http://www.powerleap.com/Processors.html Paul |
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The top end for that motherboard, I believe, is 2.0 GHz.
-- DaveW "_|_|_" wrote in message ... I'm using a P4T-E for my Internet machine. Currently running Northwood 1.6Ghz with 1.5GB Rambus. Given that browsers and downloading tools are getting more CPU and Ram-hungry, I was thinking about speeding up the machine. Ordinarily I'd just opt for another motherboard, but since this already has 1.5 GB Rambus, it doesn't warrant swapping the motherboard. Given that Rambus is at a dead end, I hate to buy more ram too. So...in general, how much benefit could be had from a faster CPU...Say 3Ghz? (Subjective, I know...a wild guess is fine). And how fast a CPU will the P4T-E accommodate? I guess I'd have diminishing returns given the 400mhz fsb, so I'm not looking to go beyond 3ghz (if that's even possible). |
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The Asus site still says 2.6 GHz. I upgraded my P4T-E CPU from 1.9
to 2.6MHz a couple of years ago and the BIOS to 1007. It works great. It also over clocks to 120% of the FSB (BIOS setting) with my cards. My old cheapo video card (32M or 64M can't remember) only allowed the system to go to 110% safely. At 112% the system would often hang. I leave it at the correct 100% setting unless I expect to do something very demanding. http://www.asus.com/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx On Tue, 17 May 2005 11:48:13 -0400, "_|_|_" wrote: I'm using a P4T-E for my Internet machine. Currently running Northwood 1.6Ghz with 1.5GB Rambus. Given that browsers and downloading tools are getting more CPU and Ram-hungry, I was thinking about speeding up the machine. Ordinarily I'd just opt for another motherboard, but since this already has 1.5 GB Rambus, it doesn't warrant swapping the motherboard. Given that Rambus is at a dead end, I hate to buy more ram too. So...in general, how much benefit could be had from a faster CPU...Say 3Ghz? (Subjective, I know...a wild guess is fine). And how fast a CPU will the P4T-E accommodate? I guess I'd have diminishing returns given the 400mhz fsb, so I'm not looking to go beyond 3ghz (if that's even possible). |
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 01:42:10 +0000, NomoreRGS
wrote: The Asus site still says 2.6 GHz. I upgraded my P4T-E CPU from 1.9 to 2.6MHz a couple of years ago and the BIOS to 1007. It works great. I believe my BIOS is flashed with v1008. Maybe it was a beta or perhaps just available on one of their overseas sites (I'm thinking Germany). Is there any reason to use 1007 instead? |
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 01:42:10 +0000, NomoreRGS
wrote: The Asus site still says 2.6 GHz. I upgraded my P4T-E CPU from 1.9 to 2.6MHz a couple of years ago and the BIOS to 1007. It works great. It also over clocks to 120% of the FSB (BIOS setting) with my cards. I just realized...If you installed a 2.6ghz CPU w 400fsb, then overclocked by 120%, you would have been running your main clock at 3Ghz, right? I haven't seen many 2.6ghz 400fsb CPUs, and was just wondering if 2.8ghz/400 would work. If you had good luck at 3ghz, I suppose it would...especially given that the main bus wouldn't be OC'd. LL |
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From what I remember BIOS v1008 is beta. I bet it will work fine though. Looks like the link from Asus I posted before doesn't work correctly. I guess you have to drill down from a higher level page selecting motherboard, socket478, p4t-e. http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...Language=en-us I thought the 2.6 was the fastest 400MHz FSB CPU Intel made. I think there is a Celeron 2.8-400. I haven't been keeping up with hardware lately so I'm lagging behind. My PC runs well and suits me fine until much faster hardware is a available. Then I build something new again. There is lots of over clocking info available for this board when searching on the net. I have saved some links below that I found helpful. http://www.cifi.com/computing/p4teoverclock.html http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=3 http://www.aceshardware.com/ http://www.overclockers.com/ http://www.tomshardware.com/index.html Over clocking depends on many things. The CPU, memory speed, the brand of clock generator chips, the cards in the PC and probably some other things. My memory is a pair of Samsung 256M PC800-40 and also a pair of PC800-45 for a total of 1G. Memory is running at 4x and both the memory and CPU setting are controller through the bios. On Mon, 23 May 2005 09:48:41 -0400, "_|_|_" wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2005 01:42:10 +0000, NomoreRGS wrote: The Asus site still says 2.6 GHz. I upgraded my P4T-E CPU from 1.9 to 2.6MHz a couple of years ago and the BIOS to 1007. It works great. It also over clocks to 120% of the FSB (BIOS setting) with my cards. I just realized...If you installed a 2.6ghz CPU w 400fsb, then overclocked by 120%, you would have been running your main clock at 3Ghz, right? I haven't seen many 2.6ghz 400fsb CPUs, and was just wondering if 2.8ghz/400 would work. If you had good luck at 3ghz, I suppose it would...especially given that the main bus wouldn't be OC'd. LL |
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