The Socket 939 Appreciation Club and Knowledgebase [Official] - Page 1561 - Overclock.net

Tator Tot · 05-16-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by blitz6804

I personally have recently started using a Scythe Kaze Server. (It is like a Scythe Kaze Master, but with a button to turn off the display.) For $45, you get four rheostats up to 1 A, and four thermal probes. You can have the fan speeds set automatically (you set temperature for maximum RPM; it does the rest), semi-automatically (you set up the temperature for maximum RPM and the minimum permissible RPM; it does the rest), and manually.

That thing is pretty.

But the 1 Amp per channel is a little weak.

The other features are nice.

**thlnk3r** · 05-16-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackOmega

The 423 pin P4 I had was probably the worst multitasking machine I have ever used. It would take forever to switch to the desktop while in game or whatever. Granted if you only ran that 1 app. it didn't fair badly.
I used it not too long ago and it still shocks me at how ridiculously slow it is in comparison to my 3500+ @ stock clocks.

Wasn't there like no difference at all with a P3 versus a S423 (performance wise)? I think that was the joke back in the day.

Tator Tot · 05-16-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by thlnk3r

Wasn't there like no difference at all with a P3 versus a S423 (performance wise)? I think that was the joke back in the day.

Pentium III actually works better clock for clock than Pentium 4.

It was more evident at the time with Pentium 4 Socket 473.

As a 1.8ghz Pentium 4 was out done in almost every bench by a 1.0ghz Pentium III.

Kryton · 05-16-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tator Tot

Pentium III actually works better clock for clock than Pentium 4.

It was more evident at the time with Pentium 4 Socket 473.

As a 1.8ghz Pentium 4 was out done in almost every bench by a 1.0ghz Pentium III.

It also didn't help that AMD's Socket A platform turned out to be a real winner. It actually took Intel several socket revisions to finally win out over Socket A and unlike alot have done with these Intels, alot of us still bench with them. I haven't seen much of anything coming from Intel systems of that era over the last few years but you still see Socket A's throwing down today and more readily than you would think.
Don't get me wrong here - There's still a few out there benching but by the numbers of what I've seen, the Socket A is dominant over these Intel chips.

I do have a PIII 933 MHz chip here in an old Gateway E3400 machine that's just sitting around. The machine works and maybe I'll find a OC'ing board for this chip for kicks one day.

**thlnk3r** · 05-16-09

Kryton, I think I still have a few of those. Let me know and I can mail them to you.

Remember the tualatin core

BlackOmega · 05-16-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by thlnk3r

Wasn't there like no difference at all with a P3 versus a S423 (performance wise)? I think that was the joke back in the day.

No not really. My friend back in the day had a dual socket PIII board with 2 1.0ghz P3's. His machine multitasked better than my 423 pin, but load times were similar. And he even had 256K more RAM than I did. Considering I had 256 and he had 512 thats a considerable jump.
I also noticed that back in the day windows ME actually played games the best out of win,95,98 or even 2000. But it was soo freakin unstable and would crash A LOT. But when it worked, there was no comparison.

blitz6804 · 05-16-09

Of the Windows 4 generation, I believe Win95 was the best. Win95 was better than Win 3.1, and is in turn beaten by Windows 5, id est, Windows Experience or Windows XP. Windows 6, id est, Windows Vista, in my opinion is a toss up. There are some nice things and some bad things. If you do not need a 64-bit OS, keep XP. If you need a 64-bit OS and you cannot get XP Pro x64, then go Vista. Else, wait on Windows 7. (Any idea if it is going to be released under Vienna as originally planned?)

Tator Tot · 05-16-09

Hey, Black Omega, did you see my previous post about the cheap temp monitor, that we were talking about earlier?

Also, my dual Socket A, Athlon XP3200+ server box was for the win...

Quote:

Originally Posted by blitz6804

Windows 7. (Any idea if it is going to be released under Vienna as originally planned?)

Windows 7 is supposed to drop "this fall"

Most speculation, and something from Acer reported that to be September IIRC.

blitz6804 · 05-16-09

The last I heard, it was being released holiday season 2009. The question was the name: Is it going to be released under the old name of Windows Vienna, the RC name of Windows 7, or something else entirely?

Tator Tot · 05-16-09

I think it'll go under Windows 7. But they have not officially said. But by the reception of many, and it being known as 7, they'll go with that.

		Overclock.net - Overclocking.net > AMD > AMD - General
The Socket 939 Appreciation Club and Knowledgebase [Official]

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 2 (1 members and 1 guests)
blitz6804