Hey i was surfing around, and notice that you guys think 1.6A would be a good price considering that it can do overclocking well. The P4 1.6A different from the old 1.6 is that it based on Norwood chip or whatever right? How hard is it to overclock this chip? I'm planning to build a new system. I was planning to go with Athlon XP 1600+, but now i'm a little interested in P4 1.6A. Is that better? What would be a good motherboard under good price for this cpu with overlocking options? Thanks in advance!
The 1.6A p4 is the northwood, it can hit 2.4ghz on the overclock, but you should purchase specific hardware for it.(raystonn and others can give you ram/mobo specs).
If you do not want to overclock, then the 1600+ is cheaper and faster, but if you decide to overclock, for now the 1.6a is the best bet.
In a month or two however the tbred will be released, which will be the .13 micton axp, and there will be an 1800+ model which should hit around 2300mhz or more, and it should be priced the same as the 1.6a, and a 2.3ghz tbred/axp would be quite a performer.
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