Pentium 4 - Suggestions pls

[Semyaza]

I am planning on buying a Pentium 4 2.0 gigahertz machine. Can you suggest what I should take into consideration of adding to the machine for gameing wise?

I was thinking:
geforce 3
256 or 512 rdram
60 gig HDD
Turtle beach santa cruz sound

Is that decent?

[fartface]

Yup. Get all the hardware that you listed. If you are going to get a Pentium 4 2000mHz, then get everything else up to date. I am also getting a GeForce3. You may not Need a 60GB harddrive, but games i have seen take 2GB, and that's just one game. Just Don't Get A VisionTek VideoCard. also get a 19 Inch Monitor, Optical Mouse, a set of 4 or more speaker System, and buy Quake 3 Arena!

[HongKongPolice]

Tell me ONE good reason to get a 2Ghz P4 for a gamming machine over a T-bird/Palomino.

[fartface]

Well, it's a 2gHz Pentium 4! That's the fastest you can get right now from Intel. My Pentium 3 is at 800mHz and it's great. Your games are gonna be smooth and fast as hell.

[newbie69]

* a good ATX case
* floppy drive
* descent headphones or speakers
* descent mousepad, i prefer a ratpadz.com mousepad for gamers
* fans to screw down in your case
* descent Microphone
* descent webcam

1) INTEL Pentium 4 2.0GHZ CPU
2) ABIT TH7II-RAID mainboard
3) 512MB Kingston Rambus
4) Stock Intel HSF
5) Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer sound card or Turtle beach santa cruz sound
6) VisionTek GeForce3 VidCard
7) IBM or Western Digital 60GB Hard drive
8) Enermax 550 watt PSU or an Intel/2GHz approved p4 PSU
9) 17 or 19 inch flat screen monitor
10) 17 or 19 radiation/glare filter - since you might look at your monitor for a long period of time
11) Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer optical USB
12) 24x or 32x CD-RW Drive
13) 16x panasonic DVD-ROM Drive
14) Microsoft Internet keyboard or Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite

[drdoug99]

10) 17 or 19 radiation/glare filter - since you might look at your monitor for a long period of time
11) Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer optical USB
12) 24x or 32x CD-RW Drive
13) 16x panasonic DVD-ROM Drive

for an ULTIMATE gaming rig, why not go to a 24 inch widescreen?

24x or 32x CDRW? faster is better, why even consider the slower 24x speed?

good choices, but for ULTIMATE, i'd want better.

Turtle beach santa cruz sound

you may want to check out SB's new Audigy line.

Is that decent?

no, it's only the faster processor you can get, with the best video card you can get, with everything else top of the line...OF COURSE IT'S DECENT!!!

[newbie69]

fine!! i'll change it to "a pretty good gaming rig" , well that list was just to start you off

[Gaming-Module]

Wait for socket 478, 2 gigers.

That leaves you a possible upgrade path up to 3.5 ghz i believe it is.

[SpareX]

hmmm and when will those be out and ready???

heh here i am contenplating getting 1.4 pala, or waiting and getting a 2g AMD or did i miss a memo and they are out now...????

I haven't been a fan of Pentiums for a while.... but if I can get to a setup to be clocked fast and runs faster for cheaper than a AMD rig... For a gaming rig that is..

BTW is it worth it to upgrade a SB Live X-gamer (non 5.1) to one of the Audigy line? or should i go the cheap way and get a SB or Philips 5.1 card and wait... Though the Audigy cards were sold out in a day that or pulled at the local CompUSA




Side note : these compaq MSN compainons are SLOW, for a Net only computer... sounds like No CPU or Power Fan... that or a REALLY quiet one, Tiny LCD screen... and no way to see the specs out of the box....(no "desktop" or "task bar") only supports MP3 and WMA files... BUT if you could find a way to make it a portable... it could be a cheap alternative to a Laptop..... dunno the price on these things... but im tempted to take a screwdriver to it and see whats it made of... =)

l8R

[terrancelam]

I think the 2ghz P4 is the 478 "northwood", isn't it? BTW when you get your P4 cpu, make sure it's the socket 478 type and not the 423.

As for the rest, hmm consider and Antec 1030SX case, Enermax 400W PSU, IBM 60GXP40 gig HD, the Geforce 3 would be a nice addition to the box, Plextor Burner, maybe 12X or 16X, 16X Toshiba DVD, hmmm a flat screen monitor prefferably 19'', but 17" will do as well. Don't forget the 1.44mb floppy as well hehe uhhh....and maybe a NIC card.

I think that's it and btw Tigger, though we all love AMD, the new P4 Northwood, I admit, is very very insane with performance and unlike it's AMD counter part is a bit more durable with it's life span.

[HongKongPolice]

Originally posted by fartface
Well, it's a 2gHz Pentium 4! That's the fastest you can get right now from Intel. My Pentium 3 is at 800mHz and it's great. Your games are gonna be smooth and fast as hell.

Haha you still think that the higher the CPU clock is, the more preformance you get, well i'm sorry to tell you, but you're WRONG. A 1.4Ghz Palomino will Kill a 2Ghz P4 in most benchmarks except for HEAVILY SSE2 optimized ones.

[Gaming-Module]

As far as a 1.4 Thunderbird vs a P4 2ghz, the P4 wins hands down.

We are talking chips you can actually buy. I could say to you, "Well I see you your 1.4 ghz pally...and raise you a 3.5 ghz Northwood."

See what I'm saying?

[YARDofSTUF]

Originally posted by Macho-Module
We are talking chips you can actually buy.

then u could only raise to a 2ghz cpu


yes hte P4 out is the northwood, the main question is, is this the stripped down P4 or the new and original one that wasnt ready, if so AMD has a compettitor

[Brent]

if you read the original posters post in this thread this thread was not intended to be an intel vs. amd thread

ya'll have made it one

lets try to stick ON TOPIC in threads, specially when they are heated debates that can happen like this...

k?

[YARDofSTUF]

Originally posted by Semyaza
I am planning on buying a Pentium 4 2.0 gigahertz machine. Can you suggest what I should take into consideration of adding to the machine for gameing wise?

I was thinking:
geforce 3
256 or 512 rdram
60 gig HDD
Turtle beach santa cruz sound

Is that decent?

too help bring this back as brent mentioned, yes that would be good and for gaming u would be happy with it, sorry for crapping on ur thread

[aagiants]

Originally posted by Brent
if you read the original posters post in this thread this thread was not intended to be an intel vs. amd thread

ya'll have made it one

lets try to stick ON TOPIC in threads, specially when they are heated debates that can happen like this...

k?

seems that brent was slightly agitated on that 8 page amd vs intel post lol

[newbie69]

Originally posted by terrancelam
I think the 2ghz P4 is the 478 "northwood", isn't it? BTW when you get your P4 cpu, make sure it's the socket 478 type and not the 423.

can you explain or show a link why to get a socket 478 type and not a 423? and i just saw a p4 motherboard with a socket for a CPU small as hell, what socket CPU was that? it was smaller than all the other p4 cpu sockets

[fartface]

Originally posted by TigerUpperCut


Haha you still think that the higher the CPU clock is, the more preformance you get, well i'm sorry to tell you, but you're WRONG. A 1.4Ghz Palomino will Kill a 2Ghz P4 in most benchmarks except for HEAVILY SSE2 optimized ones.

i said a 2gHz Pentium is the fastest you can get by Intel Only

[newbie69]

hehe forget it, did my own researching