a performance question

[Rbstr]

that gould be a miss marked Presscot Celleron, those are going to have a 533mhz FSB
but the L2 cashe is suposed to be 512k

I left some out there is also the 533mhz FSB one that came before the C, i think it was called the b, and the one before that with a 400mhz FSB(rambus P4) that may be an A

also the slowest Presscot (including the Cel versions) will be 2.8ghz

[Desperado]

well, I've bought an extra 1gig of ram for about $130, thanks for all your input

[Ait'al]

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...ductCode=80645 They have the same thing. It has the SSE3 too. I think they just released this a few weaks ago to redo there smaller processor selection. Corsair and others are doing the same before hte 775 and PCI- EX come out so they have more to sell on the lower end or somehting, in one form or another. Ill get a product link from Intel too.

Edit: The 2.8 is still a little high for some people, so maybe they released a smaller one hoping people would buy them to OC.

Still getting Intels info...

http://processorfinder.intel.com/scr...sp?ProcFam=483 the list I told you theyve been popping out versions like theres no tommorrow.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/scr...ALL&CorSpd=ALL the Product. Is that a prescott? Its 90nm.

http://www.intel.com/design/Pentium4/documentation.htm and an extra little fun page.

The first link is in the Product information thing on the right side of the page and is called Proccessor specs. Then the last one is a redirected link from Updated Specs link just below the first link on the P4 processor page on intels sight http://www.intel.com/products/deskto...proc+prod_p4p& the last link is actually the technical documentation page. the second link is obviosly the Hypelink to the 90nm 2.4 from the first link.

The 2.8A/E are just the lowest Prescotts/90nms coming out on the 800 mhz bus. Not overall.

[Rbstr]

Intel hates OCing you fool, they don't want people to buy cheaper ones and OC them to the perfomance of more expensive ones, thats one of the stupidest things i've ever heard.

those look to be the presscot cels, even if they are not cels there POS only fools would get those, the presscots worse than teh P4 with an 800mhz with a 533mhz FSB it would be even worse

I honestly don't know WTF a P4a is then buts its crap so why keep persisting about it?

also you never said anyting about poping out versions like theres no tomarrow, they are called stepings, minor acitecture revisions

[Electrofreak]

A tip on video cards.

If you want the fastest video card for PlanetSide, get a fairly new GeForce, like a 5900. These cards run Direct X 8 applications better than ATI cards do, resulting in higher FPS.

However if you are planning on playing any other games in the near future, I'd suggest a Radeon 9000 series card, especially the 9800. These cards are Direct X 9 compatible, and will run games like Half-Life 2 at literally twice the FPS as a GeForce card.

GeForce is playing catch-up right now to ATI, and in order to maintain what foothold they have, they've made their cards very good at running Direct X 8 games like PlanetSide. So again, its your choice. If you are planning on upgrading your card in a half year or so anyways, get a GeForce, it'll run PlanetSide best. If you want a card that is a bit more future-proofed, and will run the upcoming Direct X 9 PC games much better, ATI would be the prime choice.

Hope that helped any.

[Rbstr]

I'm preaty sure PS uses some DX9 parts. It need DX9 installed to run last time i checked

I don't relay liek the AMD Athlon ^4's righ tnow as they have bad driver suport and stuff rifht now but the 939 socket and things make it more appeling, and Win XP 64.

[Phaelon]

It uses DX9 only to a degree. It uses in-herrent commands but does not take FULL use of the shadow texture settings.

Personally, I am an Intel man as well. Speed is not as important as reliability and stability for me as a person. However in the server market of 4 processors or more, I like the Opterons better because of thier architecture.

[Electrofreak]

Yeah Rbstr it uses some Direct X 9 ELEMENTS, but the engine is Direct X 8 based.

[Electrofreak]

As for the AMD 64 having bad drivers? Plenty of nice driver supportage for us AMD 64ers.

If you were referring to XP 64, yeah theres not a ton of drivers out right now for it but they are slowly leaking through. If I can dig up an old hard drive somewhere I'll install it on my system. It seems that there are 64-bit drivers for all of my hardware out right now.