P4 3.4GHz socket 478 - WOW!!

[TheGreatSatan]

Look what this proc (http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Pentium-4-3-4Ghz-800Mhz-478-Extreme-EE-SL7CH-3-4_W0QQitemZ350095619798QQihZ022QQcategoryZ80144QQs sPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) sold for!

I guess they're rare because Intel changed to socket 775 and not too many socket 478's were made, but is it worth buying for anything else than a collector's item?

[Luke122]

I have a 478 board with AGP, and a 3850 Radeon 512mb AGP card... with that processor, I could be gaming it up!

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Still, that's nuts! Worse even than the run on XP3200+s.

P4s over 3 GHz, regardless of socket, aren't that common anyway. Well, maybe over 3.2 - you don't often run into a 3.4 of any flavor, and the 3.6 is damn near vaporware as far as I can tell - I've sure never seen one.

Know what's really useless, though? A socket-775 board with DDR, PCI Express, and a 915P chipset. No C2D support, no Pentium D, just single-core Prescotts. At least it was free (and I was able to, ahem, "obtain" a 3.2 for it).

[TheGreatSatan]

My R2-M5 still has a P4 3.2GHz and it ain't all that bad on speed. Old, but not useless yet

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Didn't say the rig was useless. Just that board. A 3.2 can still hold its own as long as you don't require multiple cores, and you live in an area where the heat it gives off is actually beneficial.

[nevermind1534]

I have the socket 775 P4. I got it OEM off of newegg about a year ago. I would have gone faster, if the had the 3.6. I think they might have even made a 3.8GHz one. Another thing that held me back from buying a faster one from other sites was the cost. I wish that I had understood a little better back then, and got the same speed Pentium D for only $10 more. My CPU has been fine. You have to remember, too, that the newer ones, such as mine have hyper-threading support, which helps a little.

~~Edit: That's also an extreme edition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4#Gallatin_.28Extreme_Edition.29), which I'm sure helped bring the price up.

[TheGreatSatan]

You can get a QX6850 off ebay for the price of that P4 3.4GHz

[XcOM]

I've have a P4 478 3.6GHz, yes they are extremely rare, but they do exist, and my dad is adiment they did a 3.8 as he claims to have one sitting in his den somewhere :shock:

[mtekk]

Look what this proc (http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Pentium-4-3-4Ghz-800Mhz-478-Extreme-EE-SL7CH-3-4_W0QQitemZ350095619798QQihZ022QQcategoryZ80144QQs sPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) sold for!

I guess they're rare because Intel changed to socket 775 and not too many socket 478's were made, but is it worth buying for anything else than a collector's item?

They made a ton of socket 478s (425 was the short live one). I have so many sub-2.0Ghz Celerons on socket 478 packaging it's not even funny (I think the total is near 10). The 3.2Ghz P4 on 478 was quite popular, the 3.4 I believe was one of the fastest Northwood core (130nm process) chips you could get (I do not think they made a 3.6Ghz chip on that core and process). A bit expensive yes, you'd be better off getting something modern that would knock its socks off for the same price.

[XcOM]

yep, the old server ran on a Intel Prescott 3.6GHz P4 Extreme Edition, It ran hot enough to cook an egg!

oh and it was socket 478,

[TheGreatSatan]

I think I remember the 3.8GHz; wasn't it called the Pentium 4J?

[XcOM]

something like that, you needed a watercooling setup just to get it to run under the thermal cut off

[Luke122]

Heh.. I have that p4 3.2 mobile processor that IDLES at 60'C..

[XcOM]

yea, my bro stopped using that p4 486 3.6 becuase he had to use the zalaman super flower thing, you know, the huge HSF with a 140MM fan on it, and it was always at full speed, and even then it would idle at about 65-70 ish

Its insane what intel was doing just to try and keep up with amd at the time

[nevermind1534]

My CPU idles around 30° C. That's not with stock cooling, of course. If I stop the fan for a few minutes, I see the temp quickly shoot up to over 70°.

[Luke122]

If I am going to do anything with that cpu, it'll have to be watercooled for sure.

[mtekk]

My CPU idles around 30° C. That's not with stock cooling, of course. If I stop the fan for a few minutes, I see the temp quickly shoot up to over 70°.

My P4 3.0Ghz is at 36°C right now (30°C ambient according to speedfan), with stock intel cooler. Haven't seen it much over 70°C when pegging it (with Crysis of course). The early Prescotts ran hot, the later ones and the Northwoods were not as bad, still not nearly as good as the C2D.

[nevermind1534]

Mine is the one listed in my system specs. It's a prescott, although it's a socket 775, which I'm sure helps. Mine is also overclocked to 3.67GHz.

[TheGreatSatan]

I had my 3.2 OC'd to 4.7 (not so stable) with phase change cooling @ -38C

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Oh, boy. Now I've got to see what my 3.2/775 Prescott can do. The board's an Abit, so it should be able to wring the most out of that chip.

[nevermind1534]

What do you think mine could do with a decent board?

[TheGreatSatan]

I was using the Abit IC7-Max3