Like many of you, I am sure, I am contemplating my next upgrade.
While contemplating the purchase of an AMD and NForce2 based platform I realised that Intel's offerings weren't that much more expensive.
When I started reading a bit more about Intel's chips and supporting chipsets I also realised that these P4 do indeed overclock nicely.
I am not an hardcore OCer and don't intend to be but I don't mind these extra "easy to get" couple of MHz. Who doesn't really?
This finished convincing me. I am switching to Intel.
Simple I thought.
Just read the forums and pick your hardware to get the best perfs on your budget.
Hummm. that 2.4B P4 thingy looks nice...
Hummm. that P4PE does look nice too....
I am getting there...
Then the worse that can happen happened.
Someone linked me to an article mentioning the next generation of Intel products based on 200 MHz FSB
i.e. springdale and canterwood chipsets and P4/800 cpus
Wisely (sure!) and mostly because I (my finances rather) can do with waiting a bit I decided to...well...wait to see what these springdale/canterwood chipset can do.
here are some other factors that I have considered in an attempt to convince myself I had made the right choice.
- waiting is free and you can't go wrong
- newest platforms (eg Nforce2 for AMD) fail somehow to deliver stability at 200 MHz, at least without serious modifications. therefore why not wait for something designed to work at 200 MHz and avoid this nerve wracking soldering
- if the switch 200 MHz does not deliver much more perfs it will lower the price of current platforms
A couple of questions however reminds unanswered in my mind and i'd be curious to know what hardware gurus could comment on these or this topic in general.
Will the 200MHz chipsets be able to deliver more performances with current 133 MHz chips?
i.e. what will be the cost in terms of performances to run the memory and CPUs at different frequency?
Will the P4/800 CPUs (to be released in April) will be able to use all the dual DDR bandwidth or will we have to wait for the 1MB L2cache chips?
i.e. will this dual DDR400 memory support be for show
Thanks in advance for posting
While contemplating the purchase of an AMD and NForce2 based platform I realised that Intel's offerings weren't that much more expensive.
When I started reading a bit more about Intel's chips and supporting chipsets I also realised that these P4 do indeed overclock nicely.
I am not an hardcore OCer and don't intend to be but I don't mind these extra "easy to get" couple of MHz. Who doesn't really?
This finished convincing me. I am switching to Intel.
Simple I thought.
Just read the forums and pick your hardware to get the best perfs on your budget.
Hummm. that 2.4B P4 thingy looks nice...
Hummm. that P4PE does look nice too....
I am getting there...
Then the worse that can happen happened.
Someone linked me to an article mentioning the next generation of Intel products based on 200 MHz FSB
i.e. springdale and canterwood chipsets and P4/800 cpus
Wisely (sure!) and mostly because I (my finances rather) can do with waiting a bit I decided to...well...wait to see what these springdale/canterwood chipset can do.
here are some other factors that I have considered in an attempt to convince myself I had made the right choice.
- waiting is free and you can't go wrong
- newest platforms (eg Nforce2 for AMD) fail somehow to deliver stability at 200 MHz, at least without serious modifications. therefore why not wait for something designed to work at 200 MHz and avoid this nerve wracking soldering
- if the switch 200 MHz does not deliver much more perfs it will lower the price of current platforms
A couple of questions however reminds unanswered in my mind and i'd be curious to know what hardware gurus could comment on these or this topic in general.
Will the 200MHz chipsets be able to deliver more performances with current 133 MHz chips?
i.e. what will be the cost in terms of performances to run the memory and CPUs at different frequency?
Will the P4/800 CPUs (to be released in April) will be able to use all the dual DDR bandwidth or will we have to wait for the 1MB L2cache chips?
i.e. will this dual DDR400 memory support be for show
Thanks in advance for posting