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Northwood vs Prescott
Working on old computer and have old question which I don't know
enough to decide. I'm hoping someone will know this: A computer running with : Pentium 4 Northwood, 512 KB cache but 800 MHz FSB or Pentium 4 Prescott, 1 MB cache but 533 MHz FSB ? At same clock speed of 2.4 GHz, which computer will be the fastest overall? Thanks, Claude |
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Northwood vs Prescott
wrote in message ... Working on old computer and have old question which I don't know enough to decide. I'm hoping someone will know this: A computer running with : Pentium 4 Northwood, 512 KB cache but 800 MHz FSB or Pentium 4 Prescott, 1 MB cache but 533 MHz FSB ? At same clock speed of 2.4 GHz, which computer will be the fastest overall? Thanks, Claude Running what software? If it fits in the 1MB but not the 512KB the answer is obvious. |
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Northwood vs Prescott
Del Cecchi wrote:
wrote: Working on old computer and have old question which I don't know enough to decide. I'm hoping someone will know this: A computer running with : Pentium 4 Northwood, 512 KB cache but 800 MHz FSB or Pentium 4 Prescott, 1 MB cache but 533 MHz FSB ? At same clock speed of 2.4 GHz, which computer will be the fastest overall? Running what software? If it fits in the 1MB but not the 512KB Pretty unlikely, of course. the answer is obvious. The Northwood is generally faster, at any given clock, even if the FSB was the same. |
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Northwood vs Prescott
On Jan 27, 8:00�am, chrisv wrote:
Del Cecchi wrote: wrote: Working on old computer and have old question which I don't know enough to decide. I'm hoping someone will know this: A computer running with : Pentium 4 Northwood, 512 KB cache but 800 MHz FSB or Pentium 4 Prescott, 1 MB cache but 533 MHz FSB ? At same clock speed of 2.4 GHz, which computer will be the fastest overall? Running what software? �If it fits in the 1MB but not the 512KB Pretty unlikely, of course. the answer is obvious. The Northwood is generally faster, at any given clock, even if the FSB was the same. Thanks. Seems to run cooler too. Claude |
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The Northwood is generally faster, at any given clock, even if the FSB was the same. Thanks. Seems to run cooler too. If the FSBs were reversed, I suspect the Prescott would be faster: Pentium 4 chips of any generation are much more sensitive to FSB speed differences than either P3s were or Core2s are. -- Nate Edel http://www.cubiclehermit.com/ preferred email | is "nate" at the | "I do have a cause, though. It's obscenity. I'm posting domain | for it." |
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