new p4 and ddr coming tonight :)

hey, i just wanted to start a little post about my little upgrade i have coming tonight... i am going from my pentium 4 2.0a (400MHz fsb) to a pentium 2.4 (533MHz fsb) i am going to take a load of benchmarks tonight and compare them once i install everything. should be interesting to see. with my new ram, i am replacing a generic stick with kingston so that *should* let me get some more aggressive timings... my generic stick has been holding me back for some time now...

Cool!

I have subscribed to this thread, I will be interested to see what performance differences are between a 2.0 and a 2.4.

David

okay, i am running benchmarks at the moment to give a nice round picture of what is going on. i've ran sandra 2003, 3d mark 2001 se, and pcmark 2002. anybody know of any other benchmarking programs that they would recommend me running as well? i figured the more the merrier

and i am not just buying a p4 2.4 because my 2.0 is slow... don't think i am a little rich kid who can spend all my money on parts... i am building my girlfriend a computer for part of her christmas present (plus a nice engagement ring )and i figured that instead of buying her a p4 2.0, i would get myself a little higher 2.4 and give her my 2.0 which runs fine. i just couldn't justify the extra money for anything higher than the 2.4... for a 2.53 it's ridiculous! they're asking $50 more for a mere 130 MHz... oh well... i will surely love my 2.4!

plus look at my rank on the left. i am a poor college student

*edit: well it appears that i won't get my stuff until monday apparently the shipment was held up, unlike my previous two... oh well... i will live... still i am going to post my benchmarks when i am done*

here are my before and after stats from my upgrade. all i did was upgrade from my p4 2.0a northwood w/ 512 cache to a p4 2.40b w/512 cache & i also swapped out a stick of generic memory for some kingston.

3D Mark 2001 SE
before: 10444 http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=5115862
after: 11470 http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=5153775

PCMark2002
before: cpu - 4706; memory - 4905; hdd - 880 http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=855420
after: cpu - 5792; memory - 5329; hdd - 896 http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=865859

Sandra 2003

• CPU Arithmetic Benchmark
  before: dhrystone 5239; whetstone 1089/2495
  after: dhrystone 6274; whetstone 1342/3059
• CPU Multi-Media Benchmark
  before: integer isse2 7691; floating-point isse2 9748
  after: integer isse2 9501; floating-point isse2 11953
• Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
  before: int 1902 mb/s; float 1913 mb/s
  after: int 1958 mb/s; float 1961 mb/s
• Cache & Memory Benchmark
  http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mbentley/cache_memory.jpg

Cool. So a 400MHz increase gives a 1000point rise in 3DMark2001SE score. I wonder when the Vcard becomes limiting.

David