Why aren't you running a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition?
Now THIS is a shill thread
>tfw I actually have one of these pulled from an ayyliumware and running in a 1U IBM housefire
>>52149393
It's all the power you'd need to shitpost on /g/, watch laotian sequential drawn images and heat your house.
>>52149186
Because I like having a house that isn't on fire
>>52149461
It was a breddy gud chip 2bh, just a Gallatin Xeon shoehorned into S478 packaging.
i'm running the 32 bit 3 gHz HT in my dell GX280 (poorfag, long story), but with a lot of things added, im able to run things like Skyrim on High. I'm upgrading to a 64 bit soon, along with going up to 8 gigs of Ram from 4 gigs, as to see what i can wrest from it.
(i have a nice settlement from a former job coming through, so i'm going to build a competent PC soon, but i'm honestly wanting to see how far i can push a Pentium 4 set up). Pic related - my current set up, with an MSI n9800gt Overclocker Series 512 meg card helping it along.
>>52149988
I thought pic related was the most powerful one could stuff into a S478 mobo. Was I wrong?
>>52149186
>>52150549
>those floppy disks on the table
Don't copy that floppy, Anon!
>>52152236
they are coasters now, for when peoples come for the boozings!
>>52150549
It's a kind of cheat if you go with LGA775 and PCIe. To stay tru-P4, you should remain within the confines of S478 and AGP.
>>52152256
You do realize how much a floppy costs now? At least where I live those who still offer them for sale want anywhere between $0.50 and $1 apiece, even if you buy them in bulk. Yea, up to $100 for a hundred floppy disks.
>weaker than Athlon 64 FX in every single department
>uses more electricity too
>and gets hotter
Netbust is completely indefendable. Remember that time when Intel made their idiot followers change over from socket 478 to 775 for no reason other than that 775 had better heat dissipation so Prescotts could be locked higher than Northwoods
>>52149186
The P4EE Gallatin was the peak of Intel's gigahurtz megalomania about 12 years ago. Too bad the 4GHz one never came out after all, that would surely be a big psychological blow for AMDfags (though Intel wouldn't want to be held accountable for that many exploding PCs apparently).
>>52152295
these were thrift store fodder. none will format, tried to in multiple drives. rather than throw the bastards out, they catch my bourbon and cokes now
>>52152306
>>weaker than Athlon 64 FX in every single department
Gaming is not all of computing. Why did professionals (video editing/encoding, CAD, 3D modelling/rendering, etc.) use said "horrible" P4s almost exclusively, and not Athlons?
>>52152384
Uh ok, if they're broken I guess that's alright.
PS
>the designated street sign catcha ride never ends
>>52152407
Because the only way to get any of AMD's non-budget CPUs is to build your own computer.
>>52152407
>Why did professionals (video editing/encoding, CAD, 3D modelling/rendering, etc.) use said "horrible" P4s almost exclusively, and not Athlons?
P4s performed disproportionately well in those production programs, but they still were worse than Athlon 64 on a value proposition.
>>52152407
Indeed you were, the fastest S478 chip ever manufactured was the 3.4 GHz Gallatin EE, which was Northwood-based and featured a spacious 2 MB L3 cache.
The slightly overclocked LGA 775 variant is arguably the fastest Single-core NetBurst chip clock-for-clock in existence.
>>52152692
I assume you were, in fact, responding to >>52152194?
>>52152407
Most OEMs had lucrative deals with Intel, only offering AMD chips in their low-end systems, plus the NetBurst floating point and SIMD units were magnificent, typical of Intel chips.
I don't think AMD really had any meaningful options in the ultra high end until the Opteron anyway.
>>52152759
Yes, I'm a retard.
>>52152771
The Opteron was extremely popular in that era.
>>52152802
Yeah, but before 2003 all you had in that segment from AMD was the Athlon MP, which was literally just an Athlon XP certified for dual-socket operation.
>>52152692
>L3 cache
It was L2 cache, wasn't it?
Also, too bad they are considered collector's items and go for ridiculous money if found on sale at all. I googled it for giggles and found a 3.2GHz one for $100+.
>>52152891
512K L2 + 2MB L3, it's a straight up repackage of the Xeon DP 3.2 with the FSB bumped up to 800 MT/s
>>52152891
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Pentium-Extreme-Edition-3-4GHz/dp/B000YDSUXM
>"1 used from $299.99"
>300 bucks for a 12 year old CPU
Wut. I guess this MUST be a shill thread after all. How else would you justify such outrageous prices?
>>52152931
Huh, so it has 2MiB of actual L3 cache on top of a Northwood's standard 512KiB L2?
>>52152937
Wouldn't it just be better anyway to get a Cedar Mill Pentium 4 and overclock it the fuck up?
That is, if you were hell bent on Netburst single-core hyberbibeline :D:D:D
>>52152956
>Cedar Mill
Not S478 immafraid.
>>52152937
It's incredible how inflated that shit is, I don't really get it.
>>52152944
Yeah, it seems to make a difference too. I kind of want to pull out mine and bench it against some regular P4 systems, I daily drove it in 2010 and it was a very reasonable performer.
>>52152956
For the price of a single Pentium 4 EE you can buy a real Xeon system and throw a pair of 3 GHz Gallatin MP chips in it with 4MB L3 cache for $4 a piece, and probably still have money left over.
>>52152967
I guess the second best thing is one of those top standard P4 Northwoods with hyperthreading.
Pretty sure on socket 478 there were no Prescotts better than Northwood
>>52153010
Just to clarify, something like this is what you want.
http://ark.intel.com/products/27504/Intel-Pentium-4-Processor-supporting-HT-Technology-3_40-GHz-512K-Cache-800-MHz-FSB
Not as good as the Gallatin but definitely not a bad little retro processor and without the bad Prescott IPC.
>>52153036
>P4
>retro
Try that one over at /vr/, I dare you.
>>52153036
>those are still like $20
man what the fuck, you can buy $3600 shitburst xeons for $5 with free shipping all day but these jew legends want $20 for a mid-range shitbox chip that played second fiddle to prescott (in marketing literature) from day one
>>52153099
technical definition aside even the newest P4s are almost to the 10-year mark, even though along with athlon XPs/64s they're still remarkably useful
>>52149186
Fuck off nigger.
>>52153010
Top CPUs for the S478 (non-P4EE at least) are 3.4GHz 512KiB L2 Northwood and 3.4GHz 1MiB L2 Prescott. Even though having twice the L2 cache, the Prescott had any way from somewhat to significantly poorer results than the Northwood back in 2004 in most tasks, with the Northwood draining much less power, running much cooler etc.
The question is whether the Northwood still trumps and equally-clocked Prescott these days, or if the latter's twice larger L2 cache has proved more important over the years. I see a 3.4GHz Northwood on offer for about $22 including shipping and wonder if it's worth to grab it if right now I have a 3.4GHz Prescott (which has been running a bit too hot for my tastes). I'd just wouldn't like to shell out money only to find the replacement to have poorer actual performance nowadays.
