Thread: What type of Processor to buy for my new rig ?

I really appreciate your responds. But I like to ask my query.Why didn't Intel utilize tech from Tualatin into P4? Would have possessed Athlon then.

In the Net burst years Intel collected a team in Israel that developed a different architecture which lastly got them the presentation lead with the foreword of core2duo which was derived from their centrino technology which was derived from their P III architecture.

Yeah, this is reclining. I penned the huge bulk of the wiki article on Celeron and I can tell you this: no Tualatin Celeron yet outperformed a Willamette based P4 Celeron. Lower power use, yes, but never was the Tualatin really faster.

You provide the notion to have beyond the Northwood days, when the A and B series were neck and neck with the Athlon XP processors, both performing the similar, but with Intel CPUs overriding much less power and operating much cooler. Then, Northwood C processors arrived together with hyper threading and nearly conquered AMD's Athlon XP. The XP 3200 could only compete with the 2.6C Northwood on most benchmarks, and only in some games could it execute closer to the 3.0C. It was dark times for AMD then, they limped along selling their midrange CPUs for peanuts and only when the Athlon64 was lastly released and in sufficient quantity, did AMD have a competitive CPU series again. We all recognize what happened next: Intel's failure with Prescott and their fall from supremacy for the next two years (2004-2006). It is Prescott that stains the Pentium 4 name. Cedar Mill was a much enhanced design and overclocked very well, but unfortunately it was outshined by the looming presence of Core 2 Duo's launch, with the preview on 2006 sending shockwaves throughout the presentation community.

My PIII 1400MHz brings as much computing presentation (7z, SuperPi and quickly) as a P4 2000MHz, except for in games. The few SSE directions more by the P4 possibly don't explain it, but the very slow write speed of sdr-sdram is a good clarification. It writes about half as fast as it reads, as differing to ddr-sdram, giving a factor of 4 or much more in favor of the P4.

The Tutu Celeron 1400/100MHz I tested had faintly less computing presentation with my PIII 1400/133MHz but yet less performance in games. So overclock it to 133MHz at least, as this will stay the AGP at normal frequency.

Also notice that Ram speed has a BIG impact on Tutu performances, as opposed to a C2D for example. CL3 to CL2 gives a 10% common improvement. Northbridge is even more significant, with the i815ep (step B) giving a 30% faster computer than via for example.

Another main matter that held back Tualatin’s presentation is lack of instruction set, floating-point and bandwidth. And they did only support crappy synchronous sdram which make unfair to evaluate to p4 line.

And Northwood is running cool? Really? I had a Northwood 2.6 GHz fsb400 with pc800 and it ran above 60c when unused and 95c under full load with stock cooling. That is what you called "cool"? But really it is cooler evaluate to Prescott and Willamette. But no where near Tualatin 1.4 GHz’s idle temperature of 40c (for 180nm that is inspiring.)

500 gigs are only some dollars more than the 250 so go with 500. Since you are scheduling on video editing, I propose going with the Athlon II 630.

4 gigs of ram suggested on new builds and something akin to a Thermaltake 500W, that should give you a huge up to date machine.

Thanks, but I don't require more than 250 gigs, I presently am using 35 gigs of my 40 gig Maxtor HDD on my Tualatin desktop and I may observe the Propus.

just for discussion sake my specifications are;

1.2ghz Tualatin
512mb of SDRAM
40 gig Maxtor HDD
Phillips and Maxtor optical drives
i815 chipset w/ 8 mbs max vid mem
one AGP slot and three PCI slots
floppy drive.

Tutu Celerons employ the similar signaling voltages as Coppermine’s, allowing adapters to just pass the signals from the CPU to the Northbridge. Tutu PIII employ yet different signaling voltages which shouldn't have been mixed with older Northbridge, though in practice it worked.

But I worldwide agree that Intel completed a huge muddle with its PIII sockets. This was one of the factors that privileged Amd. Intel hasn't learnt from that, if you observe the even bigger mess they're doing right away with the sockets.

That is completely wrong. There was no dissimilarity in the pin out or voltages between Tualatin Celerons and Tualatin PIIIs. Please, observe the Lunchbox website.