Is this a worthwhile upgrade? jumping back to Intel

[enzoferrari650]

This is my setup. I build it about a year ago.

Intel Pentium 4 2.8Ghz@3.4 Northwood
DFI ps83-bl
kingston 1.5gig pc3200 dual channel
Nvidia GeForce FX5700 Ultra
Zalman Fanless GPU cooler
Aeroflow cpu cooler
Aspire X-DreamerII case.

I would really recommend getting the 1024mb pc3200 dual channel ram by Kingston. I got it on sale for 130 at frys after rebate. It been working like a dream.

I just build a new computer for my dad 2 days ago:

Pentium 4 2.8ghz 1mb cache
Abit AI7
512 pc2700 dual channel
Geforce FX5200

The Abit motherboard has been working like a dream. I've already tried overclocking it to 3.6 and works quite well. I build that system for under 600. Pretty good deal, with all the other stuff; case, psu, dvd-rw, dvd, floppy, fans.

 

[lan]

For single usage tasks the Athlon 64 is great but I multitask a lot so the P4s with hyperthreading is more useful. A64 should be better in games and P4 in video encoding. I think the P4 would be a good match with the 9700Pro. The A64 and that video card maybe a bit mismatched.

 

[Duncan]

lol Ray...

It seems that you forgot our conversation recently...

The older cores from AMD (like my old XP2000, and your own) are hot as hell. Without VERY good CPU cooling, forget it... thats the reason that you're having data corruption and warm reboots... the thing is simply cooking... thats all

Get one of the new generation XP2600 or above, and you'll be fine (that being said, i'm using a version B XP2600 with no heating problem at all... full utilisation with F@H gives me a max temperature of 51.5 degrees celsius, whilst - when the CPU is idling, it sits at 38 degrees (ambient temperature nudging 30 degrees)... compare that to my XP2000 that idled at 65 degrees... and you can see what I'm saying...

 

[Edwood]

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Originally Posted by gsferrari Ed, I have a Sager NP-8790 Laptop Pentium 4 3.4Ghz Northwood 800Mhz FSB Intel i865 800Mhz FSB Chipset 1024 MB Dual Channel DDR400 PC3200 RAM ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 Pro 256MB DDR Gradphics Card 17" WSXGA+ LCD 2 x 60GB 7200 rpm HDD's in RAID-0 (hardware RAID) The temperature monitor indicates a resting temperature of 45 Degree Celcius and this goes up to 60 Degree Celcius under extreme gaming. I havent had any thermal related problems with this laptop and a similar sager laptop that I owned before this one (older P4 533Mhz FSB and Radeon 9000 64MB). I benchmark Aquamark at 27000 thereabouts, 3D Mark 2003 at around 4000. Just bloody awesome

That's damn good temps for a laptop. But it is a huge laptop, and must be a screamer when going full CPU burn to keep it cool.

Must keep your "boys" warm when you have it on your lap.

-Ed

 

[gsferrari]

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Originally Posted by Edwood That's damn good temps for a laptop. But it is a huge laptop, and must be a screamer when going full CPU burn to keep it cool. Must keep your "boys" warm when you have it on your lap. -Ed

um..its not really a laptop...unless you prefer your eggs fried

I always use it on a table or a lapdesk. Its not particularly loud but consider this - it is as powerful as a top of the line desktop and yet it is portable. This is the BEAST if you are a LAN party freak like I am...