Sould I wait for the Pentium 4 ?????????????

[Over Clocked]

Hey you'll, Hopefully you'll have read my "Making my Athlon" post. But from the new news that the P4 will be relased next month I am thinking twice about my Athlon. What should I do, wait? I haven't purchased my mobo or processor yet so I still could wait for the P4. Do you'll think it will have any bugs or anything? Also, if I wait, what Mobo am I supposed to use? So the P4 is fully compatiable with doze 98 and 2000, right? Thanks guys!

[Caaf2935]

From what ive read the P4 will be much better then the athlons currently are, BUT im sure the price tag will be really hefty for a while until AMD comes out with something comparable. Plus it uses a new type of proccessor (different then slot 1?), if so you arent gonna have many options on MB's right now either.

[NDC]

I also would suggest waiting for the P4. You never know what kind of flaw the P4 may have. And besides, the price will be too expensive on its first release.

It's suppose to have a 400Mhz system bus, and a new technology called "NetBurst Micro-Architecture Features". And an extension of 144 more instructions for the SSE2. So, I think there should be a significant improvement over the pevious generation of Pentium CPU's.



[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 10-29-2000).]

[Dputiger]

I wouldn't wait for the P-IV.

The P-IV systems are expected to debut in the low-end workstation/server market. As gaming machines they aren't expected to perform well, with the typical P-IV coming in about 40% slower than a P-III /Athlon at the same speed. In other words, your 1.5 Ghz P-IV performs like a 900 Mhz P-III. Not exactly stunning.

Throw in the immense size of the machine, a huge power supply/fan combo required to run it and disipate heat, PLUS the fact that RDRAM is very expensive and you aren't looking at a real winner.

On the other hand, your AMD 760 chipset with DDR RAM looks quite nice. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[OuTpaTienT]

It'll be released next month? Excuse me, hahahaHAHAHAhaha. Oh sorry. Sure it'll be realeased next month, then recalled the month atfter that. And usless you have a small fortune under your matress I wouldn't even consider a P4.

Build an Athlon system.

[plucky duck]

I would rather have my cake and be able to eat it too http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

The Athlon kicks ***** both in terms of its price/performance.

The P4 is new, its expensive, and its prolly buggy too, so I definitely would not want to be a ginnie (spelling?) pig, especially for the price you're gonna have to fork over to have them screw you over left right and centre http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

Stick with a proven winner right now. The choice is clear. Sooner or later if you still crave the P4, down the road as it has matured and prices are starting to fall, support picks up, and bugs are getting squatted, then is the time but definitely not now, IMO.

BTW, I'm an Intel fan, so if even I say that then that's a sign of somethin' eh?! hehe.

Yes, I can be contradictive at times being both an intel basher and a fan of intel http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif hehe

Plucky

[Warthog]

As others have said, it is going to cost a lot of money. In other words, it's not worth it.

I wonder if this will make the PIIIs go down in price?

Warthog

[Szech]

Don't bother with the P4... Build yourself a Thunderbird system, and you'll be kicking some azz.

[Dputiger]

I don't think the P-IV will fail. The P-IV could, I believe, be called the P7 core. (The P6 was the Pentium Pro). Intel intends to use this core for a number of years, possibly up to 10 Ghz.

If the chip just plain was bad it really could destroy their chip business. Processors take years to design from the ground up--if Intel had to start from scratch they'd be sunk.

Even with the problems they've had (numerous I know) I don't think they've gotten that bad.)

[nunyadam]

IMO every new product for the computer be it hardware or software seem's to on initial release have bug's. there always' in a hurry to get to market (just like the first little piggy). they cost way more than there worth .(here sucker,sucker,sucker) personally I like to stay a year or two behind the curve. by that time the price has come down,and the bug's have(hopefully)been fixed. the duron,a7v system is the closest I've ever been to current .(last system I built is a k6-2 500,gigabyte ga-5ax )if I had the money I would build whatever I could afford in the socket a AMD line.

[superraton01]

i've read that the p4 is going to
be bundled with 64mb of the infamously
buggy and unstable rambus (rdram).
if you want a stable and upgradable system
i'd agree with most everyone else:
get a socket A thunderbird. AMD's
slogan, "cheaper,faster,better" is true.
=)

[jman01pa]

Thunderbird is definitely the way to go. The Gig processor is easyily affordable now and will run wickedly fast. If you wait for the P4 to arrive they will be awhile before they are cheap enough and then there will be something else coming out to lust after.


J http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[krusty the klown]

You may find this article interesting - it would appear that the P4 may become more of a niche market CPU, than a mainstream one.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/column/00q3/000822/bb-03.html

Those Coppermine T P3 (Tulatin) chips look interesting.... 0.13micron fabrication: got to love a die shrink for a good round of overclocking http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif