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i started this thread:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=180485
almost two years ago when the p4 C1 steppings were hitting the wall around 3.4-5ghz on good air cooling...
well, i was very wrong on one thing----when to upgrade----
at the time i thought that the p4 with the 0.13 micron process wouldn't be released by Intel at speeds greater than 3.5ghz...and i was right about that as confirmed here:
http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/list.asp
fastest is 3.4ghz with the 0.13 micron process
my thought was that the time to upgrade would be when intel came out with the 0.09 micron process p4's...because based on the history of intel's speed ramping and architecture changes (delineated in the old thread) i thought they would start at 3.6ghz speeds and overclock to 4-5ghz on air...
i was very wrong...intel has scrapped plans to ever release a 0.09 micron p4 at 4+ghz and i haven't seen any cpu's o/c'd past much over 4ghz on air...
so it seems almost two years ago would have been the perfect time to upgrade...because until the dual core cpus come out (and that might be another year or two)...a 3-4ghz p4 C1 stepping CPU would have been just fine....not too mention that a little over a year ago canterwood came out...and that has proven to be a great mobo chipset
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=180485
almost two years ago when the p4 C1 steppings were hitting the wall around 3.4-5ghz on good air cooling...
well, i was very wrong on one thing----when to upgrade----
at the time i thought that the p4 with the 0.13 micron process wouldn't be released by Intel at speeds greater than 3.5ghz...and i was right about that as confirmed here:
http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/list.asp
fastest is 3.4ghz with the 0.13 micron process
my thought was that the time to upgrade would be when intel came out with the 0.09 micron process p4's...because based on the history of intel's speed ramping and architecture changes (delineated in the old thread) i thought they would start at 3.6ghz speeds and overclock to 4-5ghz on air...
i was very wrong...intel has scrapped plans to ever release a 0.09 micron p4 at 4+ghz and i haven't seen any cpu's o/c'd past much over 4ghz on air...
so it seems almost two years ago would have been the perfect time to upgrade...because until the dual core cpus come out (and that might be another year or two)...a 3-4ghz p4 C1 stepping CPU would have been just fine....not too mention that a little over a year ago canterwood came out...and that has proven to be a great mobo chipset
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