Pentium 4

[LordMagicMan]

Anyone have one? Anyone hear good things about it? Bad things?

 

[A_Jacks]

I saw the commercial!

Aliens love it!

 

[Phoenyx]

I have heard they are pretty good.

But they are gonna go through a major chip design so id hold off buying one for 2-3 months till the redesign is settled.

 

[Guest]

I have a pentium 4 and Windows ME. I've had them almost a year and I have no complaints.

 

[LordMagicMan]

Thanks for the feedback Pheonyx

 

[Phoenyx]

Right now Pentium 4 works with the Intell 850 chipset and really expewnsive RDRam.

They are designing the chipset to be ablle to work with cheaper SDRam Ram.
It may bot be as fast as RDRam Ram based systems but it will be cheaper for the average consumer.

 

[Unclebill]

Last Friday I picked up my first upgrade since the Pentium 233 MMX.

It's a P4 1.6 GHz in an ASUS P4B motherboard with 512 MB RAM (PC133 SDRAM, BTW) and an ASUS GeForce MX-200 AGP (AGP-4) video board (w/built-in DVD decoder & 32 MB video RAM).

This M/B will handle up to 2.0 GHz CPU and has three SDRAM DIMM slots each of which will take as small as 64 MB to as large as 1 GB so you can run as little as 64 MB RAM to as much as 3 GB on the M/B.

The really weird part is, this setup only cost about $20 more than a Pentium III 866 MHz!

Sound is built-in on the M/B and works fine. [Had to buy a new case also since this is an ATX M/B and my Pentium 233 MMX is an AT M/B.]

Running the Windows 2000 OS and the display set to 1280x1024 32-bit color, it is FAST! When you win a game of Freecell, you can't see the cards move up, not even a blur!

The only downer is that the M/B has NO ISA slots thus I'm still using the Pentium 133 for I'net access until I get my server and proxy server set up. I didn't see a point in buying a new modem yet since I have the other hardware and software available. And this will allow me to share the internet connection between two computers.

This M/B also has one CNR connector which shares the backplane aperture of PCI slot 6 (which means if you install a CNR device, you lose PCI slot 6. But since I only have one PCI card installed, so what.

 

[Spinaroonie]

I, in general, don't like 20-step processors. Just preference, that's all.

 

[KillerMuffin]

All of the sudden I feel incredibly stupid.

*slinks off thread with tail between legs...*

 

[Problem Child]

All of the sudden I feel incredibly stupid.

*slinks off thread with tail between legs...*

Cheer up my Muffin, you still turn my crank, and probably know more about big block Mopar engines than anyone on this thread.

 

[Mensa]

Was it good for you?

Last Friday I picked up my first upgrade since the Pentium 233 MMX.

It's a P4 1.6 GHz in an ASUS P4B motherboard with 512 MB RAM (PC133 SDRAM, BTW) and an ASUS GeForce MX-200 AGP (AGP-4) video board (w/built-in DVD decoder & 32 MB video RAM).

This M/B will handle up to 2.0 GHz CPU and has three SDRAM DIMM slots each of which will take as small as 64 MB to as large as 1 GB so you can run as little as 64 MB RAM to as much as 3 GB on the M/B.

The really weird part is, this setup only cost about $20 more than a Pentium III 866 MHz!

Sound is built-in on the M/B and works fine. [Had to buy a new case also since this is an ATX M/B and my Pentium 233 MMX is an AT M/B.]

Running the Windows 2000 OS and the display set to 1280x1024 32-bit color, it is FAST! When you win a game of Freecell, you can't see the cards move up, not even a blur!

The only downer is that the M/B has NO ISA slots thus I'm still using the Pentium 133 for I'net access until I get my server and proxy server set up. I didn't see a point in buying a new modem yet since I have the other hardware and software available. And this will allow me to share the internet connection between two computers.

This M/B also has one CNR connector which shares the backplane aperture of PCI slot 6 (which means if you install a CNR device, you lose PCI slot 6. But since I only have one PCI card installed, so what.

I'll bet reading that gave every nerd a woody!

 

[KillerMuffin]

Yeah, well, my MOPAR can beat up your Pentium!








Hey, I'm incorrigible.

 

[sexy-girl]

Last Friday I picked up my first upgrade since the Pentium 233 MMX.

It's a P4 1.6 GHz in an ASUS P4B motherboard with 512 MB RAM (PC133 SDRAM, BTW) and an ASUS GeForce MX-200 AGP (AGP-4) video board (w/built-in DVD decoder & 32 MB video RAM).

This M/B will handle up to 2.0 GHz CPU and has three SDRAM DIMM slots each of which will take as small as 64 MB to as large as 1 GB so you can run as little as 64 MB RAM to as much as 3 GB on the M/B.

The really weird part is, this setup only cost about $20 more than a Pentium III 866 MHz!

Sound is built-in on the M/B and works fine. [Had to buy a new case also since this is an ATX M/B and my Pentium 233 MMX is an AT M/B.]

Running the Windows 2000 OS and the display set to 1280x1024 32-bit color, it is FAST! When you win a game of Freecell, you can't see the cards move up, not even a blur!

The only downer is that the M/B has NO ISA slots thus I'm still using the Pentium 133 for I'net access until I get my server and proxy server set up. I didn't see a point in buying a new modem yet since I have the other hardware and software available. And this will allow me to share the internet connection between two computers.

This M/B also has one CNR connector which shares the backplane aperture of PCI slot 6 (which means if you install a CNR device, you lose PCI slot 6. But since I only have one PCI card installed, so what.

am i a nerd if i understood all that ?