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- Feb 20, 2007
First go around tonight with LN2 on the P4C800 and a 2.8 Northwood after playing around with air the last day or 2.
Didnt really get very far with regard to in depth benching with different benchmarks. Wasnt really going to go heavy into Spi/Wpime/Pifast until my BH-5 arrives. The memory I currently have is pretty bottom barrel PC3200 stuff. Wont overclock AT ALL either. Guess back in the day of this board Crucial wasnt a big memory player yet.
P4 Northwood 2.8 Ghz @ 4.376 Ghz.
Just the CPU-Z screenie until I get my BH-5 which should be soon! A few questions though....
On hwbot there are 3 different 2.8 Northwoods. 1 I can eliminate as the same as mine since my multi is locked at 14, and the Northwood in question on hwbot is 21. Between the 2 that are left, I see screenies on both that look similiar with same revisions/etc.... 1 is called a plain-jane P4 2.8 Northwood, and the other is a P4 2.8 Northwood HT. In my BIOS I have an option for HT under CPU, and it is enabled.
Does this mean that I absolutely have the HT 2.8 Northwood? Is there any other way to tell for sure?
Also, regarding CPU/Mem benches on this board......I have a variety of REALLY good BH-5 coming to me. I can either run 4 X 512 of Mushkin PC3500 Black level 2 BH-5, or I can run 2 X 512 Teamgroup Extreme DDR 500 mhz WITH a ram booster such as an OCZ booster, or I can run 2 X 512 of the Mushkin PC3500 with the ram booster. I dont know much in detail regardintg the Teamgroup Extreme memory, but its coming from Maxi and he says its good. Really good in fact.
Im going to try all options, but which scenario should play out the best?
Is there any real benefit to adding the addional 2X512 of ram or does it all really come down to ram mhz and timing?
Thanks again!
Didnt really get very far with regard to in depth benching with different benchmarks. Wasnt really going to go heavy into Spi/Wpime/Pifast until my BH-5 arrives. The memory I currently have is pretty bottom barrel PC3200 stuff. Wont overclock AT ALL either. Guess back in the day of this board Crucial wasnt a big memory player yet.
P4 Northwood 2.8 Ghz @ 4.376 Ghz.
Just the CPU-Z screenie until I get my BH-5 which should be soon! A few questions though....
On hwbot there are 3 different 2.8 Northwoods. 1 I can eliminate as the same as mine since my multi is locked at 14, and the Northwood in question on hwbot is 21. Between the 2 that are left, I see screenies on both that look similiar with same revisions/etc.... 1 is called a plain-jane P4 2.8 Northwood, and the other is a P4 2.8 Northwood HT. In my BIOS I have an option for HT under CPU, and it is enabled.
Does this mean that I absolutely have the HT 2.8 Northwood? Is there any other way to tell for sure?
Also, regarding CPU/Mem benches on this board......I have a variety of REALLY good BH-5 coming to me. I can either run 4 X 512 of Mushkin PC3500 Black level 2 BH-5, or I can run 2 X 512 Teamgroup Extreme DDR 500 mhz WITH a ram booster such as an OCZ booster, or I can run 2 X 512 of the Mushkin PC3500 with the ram booster. I dont know much in detail regardintg the Teamgroup Extreme memory, but its coming from Maxi and he says its good. Really good in fact.
Im going to try all options, but which scenario should play out the best?
Is there any real benefit to adding the addional 2X512 of ram or does it all really come down to ram mhz and timing?
Thanks again!
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