XRW_Hotdog Posted September 21, 2003 Author Share Posted September 21, 2003 anyone know much about this new chip? Pentium is releasing a new P4 call "P4 Extreme Edition" in the next month. It is design for PC gaming and has 2 MB of L2 cache instead of the 512K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RooK Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 It's a last ditch effort to beat the 1mb cache carrying Athlon64. They're officially debuting it this week, but some vendors have some in stock (if they havent sold out yet). Cheapest price was $450 for the 3200+, and if you haven't seen the benches, you really should. Game performance is 10-40% faster than a 3.2ghz P4. The FX51 version is even faster, but also not publicly available atm and more expensive. Here's some links- -Initial Playing: http://www.tbreak.com/forums/showthread.ph...?threadid=19317 -Overclocking it: http://www.tbreak.com/forums/showthread.ph...?threadid=19526 Will the P4 'Extreme' be able to beat these numbers? No idea, because no one seems to have one procured. My thoughts... It will come close, but as they say, no cigar. AMD is currently tops on the cpu race again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRW_Hotdog Posted September 23, 2003 Author Share Posted September 23, 2003 well i think that cpu is going to be way out of my price range here. i think i will be ok with the cpu i already picked. and today i picked up 2 80mm blue led fans and a 4 channel aluminum fan controller. i was going to get 2 more for the front but after putting the others in the case i think i will just get a 120mm fan. still need to get a good heatsink/fan for the cpu. any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ranger Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 XRW_Hotdog, That 2.4GHz P4 will be more than enough for your rig. There are very few software applications that will utilize 100% of the current CPUs available. As far as the "new" P4s, you'll be paying for cutting-edge technology, just like the Opteron processors. Fact is, I'd much rather have the Opteron. Good Luck on your rig. You'll be impressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRW_Hotdog Posted September 27, 2003 Author Share Posted September 27, 2003 ya thanks... i just hit a slow spot between pays now. the tower is sitting on the table waiting for memory on the cpu lol. it is tough to see it there and i can't use it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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