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godbrother   09-01-2009 at 10:56:07 PM

Hi, I dug around and found my old Pentium 4 CPU. It's a very rare hard to find Pentium chip that intel made then killed of the Pentium line. The specs are as follows:

- Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
- 2MB Cache (double the cache of 90% of P4's that had 1MB and below.)
- 65nm (less heat vs 90% of all P4's that used 90nm)
- LGA775 / 800Mhz FSB.

Can anyone advise me on what the best PCI-e GPU I can get that will not be a major bottleneck with this CPU? I was hoping to get the 9600GT DDR3 512MB. Is it to much of an over kill for the CPU? The current spec of the system already has 2GB of DDR2 800Mhz of ram.

please advise, this is very important.

Regards.

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Shadow703793   09-01-2009 at 11:12:56 PM
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I'm guessing this is the P4? : http://processorfinder.intel.com/d [...] Spec=SL96K

 

At any rate what are the full specs? You can just get the 9600GT/4850/4870 and upgrade during Christmas time to a E5200 or like CPU depending on the motherboard. Yes, the P4 will be a bottle neck.

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Shadow703793   09-02-2009 at 03:43:47 AM
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^+1. It's a good card.

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godbrother   09-02-2009 at 11:47:01 AM
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obsidian86 wrote :

his needs are for bout 20 pc's http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] _13_0.html



:) That's a different subject. That one is for High end gaming PC's.

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godbrother   09-02-2009 at 12:01:34 PM
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Shadow703793 wrote :

I'm guessing this is the P4? : http://processorfinder.intel.com/d [...] Spec=SL96K

At any rate what are the full specs? You can just get the 9600GT/4850/4870 and upgrade during Christmas time to a E5200 or like CPU depending on the motherboard. Yes, the P4 will be a bottle neck.



Hi, yup thats the chip (super man... :))

How much of an over kill would it be for this chip? I was hoping to get at least 75% out of the GPU. If it is to much of an overkill, what GPU would you reccommend that shows very minimum bottleneck?

Regards.

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godbrother   09-02-2009 at 12:03:32 PM
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invisik wrote :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814121320

 

Sweet card, sweet price! :) But I'm affriad it may be to much for a Pentium 4.

 

I was leaning more towards a 8600GTS DDR3 256MB. Any thoughts on bottleneck?

 

I found this: HD3650 DDR2 512MB (120 streams??)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814131168


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invisik   09-02-2009 at 12:12:40 PM
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The 8600gt is a very poor card to game with. The 9600gso will be slightly bottlenecked by your cpu but you will get much higher fps then the 8600gt. Even a fast quad core with a 8600gt wont give you more fps then a P4 with a 9600gso. You could even get a higher end card but the extra cost is not worth the minimum gain with that cpu. I highly recommend the 9600gso it will run most of your games fine and its only 35$ with free shipping cant beat that. =]

The card you posted is slower then the 9600gso and its more expensive. Why would you go for it?

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godbrother   09-02-2009 at 12:26:57 PM
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invisik wrote :

The 8600gt is a very poor card to game with. The 9600gso will be slightly bottlenecked by your cpu but you will get much higher fps then the 8600gt. Even a fast quad core with a 8600gt wont give you more fps then a P4 with a 9600gso. You could even get a higher end card but the extra cost is not worth the minimum gain with that cpu. I highly recommend the 9600gso it will run most of your games fine and its only 35$ with free shipping cant beat that. =]

The card you posted is slower then the 9600gso and its more expensive. Why would you go for it?



Hmm, seems to be a mistake here, the 9600GSO you posted shows up as $54.99

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godbrother   09-02-2009 at 12:35:25 PM
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O, after rebate... Sorry I forgot to mention I don't live in the states, so its roughly going to cost me close to $60 here.

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invisik   09-02-2009 at 12:44:50 PM
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Ohhhh. Try to find the cheapest 9600gso or 4650 you can. Those 2 cards is what i would recommend. Make sure they have above 256mb+ of video memory.

If the 9600gt/4670 is a just a bit more money you could go for those as well.

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godbrother   09-02-2009 at 12:48:01 PM
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Aww, you guys are so lucky. Someone should open up a biz there that buys stuff from there and ships them abroad... That would be a killer biz.

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godbrother   09-02-2009 at 01:49:12 PM
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I found this... It's a $100 where I live, the only problem is... it says its 1.5GB of DDR2? Makes no sence...

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/15GB-XFX-9600GSO-580MHZ

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invisik   09-02-2009 at 09:55:43 PM
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It says the product could not be found. Avoid ddr2 by all means! aim for ddr3 and the bit interface look higher then 128bit.

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godbrother   09-03-2009 at 03:05:56 PM
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Why is everything DIRT cheap in the states? I mean, half the products are not even manufactured in the U.S...

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