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  • How does the P scale?

    I know this has already been discussed to a certain extent but what were the final results? At what point is the P the bottleneck? The reason I am asking. . .I have a P4 2.26 as mentioned in my sig. . .would I benefit at all by going to a 2.8 or possibly 3.06 P4?
    My "Baby": Shuttle SS51G, P4@2.26 Ghz 533 FSB, 80 GB Western Digital Caviar "Special Edition" Hard Drive 7,200 RPM w/8 MB Cache, 512 MB Corsair PC2700 with Heat Spreaders, Pioneer DVD Drive (w/sexy slot load ), and of course a Matrox Parhelia Retail Vid Card

  • #2
    my experience has shown that the Parhelia is the bottleneck no matter what speed processor is used. to boot, my experience has shows it to be even more of a bottleneck when used in conjunction with a slower processor.

    that being said, i honestly don't know if that "small" of a jump would give that much of a performance increase for the cost.
    "And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz

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    • #3
      I guess what I meant was: "When does the P stop gaining performance?" So I would see ZERO change if I upgraded my CPU? Just wondering because obviously I wouldn't upgrade then .
      My "Baby": Shuttle SS51G, P4@2.26 Ghz 533 FSB, 80 GB Western Digital Caviar "Special Edition" Hard Drive 7,200 RPM w/8 MB Cache, 512 MB Corsair PC2700 with Heat Spreaders, Pioneer DVD Drive (w/sexy slot load ), and of course a Matrox Parhelia Retail Vid Card

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      • #4
        Try to overclock and see what happens.
        P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
        Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
        And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, Parhelia

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        • #5
          If the P's limit is 5GHz....

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          • #6
            Guess I'll be able to tell ya in about a week or so. Putting 3.06ghz of goodness in my system :-)

            Leech
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            • #7
              Fairly good I say.
              Just got a new CPU.
              3DMark03 doesn't increase almost at all.
              But games FPS increases about 15%, which is pretty good considering the memory bandwidth is LOWERED.

              was: p4 1.9@2.2, mem 314 cl2
              is: p4 1.8@2.7, mem 300 cl2

              EDIT:
              actually, more than 15%, about 25% it is.
              P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
              Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
              And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, Parhelia

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              • #8
                See what it does for you under 3dmark 2k1...
                Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!

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                • #9
                  Just ran my shiney new 3.06ghz Hyper-threading CPU up against 3dMark2001 and it scored only 8200 (8300 with Hyperthreading turned off) Just about the same as the 2.4 P4. nothing is overclocked, though so far I only have 256mb of DDR400 memory, since I was too poor to go for the 512mb, who knows if that would help more or not.

                  Leech
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                  In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                  • #10
                    I'm going to go from a KT133/Duron 700MHz/G400 to an 746FX/AthlonXP 2GHz/Parhelia. I'm hoping for a decent increase in UT2003 smoothness.
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                    • #11
                      you will see a huge increase in UT2003. i noticed a massive difference in performance when using different speed processors on that game. very cpu bound.
                      "And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz

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                      • #12
                        denty, the difference will be like day and night.
                        no matrox, no matroxusers.

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