January 3rd, 2002, 07:12 AM
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| | just passin thru
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|  Please explain?
I haven't been keeping up to date with the new Pentium 4's since I have been with AMD, but when my Fiance got her new Dell, I decided to start checking out prices for Pentiums. What I came across and I don't fully understand is when I went to price a 1.7 or 1.8 they all have this message: Quote: |
Pentium 4 Socket 478 Retail Box W/ No Memory!
| What? WITH NO MEMORY ? Current setup is :
I845 MB w/ Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
What's this memory and will I have to change it too if I upgrade in the future to another CPU?
Thanks,
Sweeper
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January 3rd, 2002, 07:20 AM
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| | Anime Otaku
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Some retail box P4 chips come with 128mb of R-DRAM, for additional cost of course. This is essentially a program to extend the market visbility of RAMBUS memory for the i850 chipset. Since you are using an i845 board, you have no need for the memory.
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January 3rd, 2002, 07:46 AM
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| | just passin thru
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The board says it is able to run up to 2.0GHz CPU. So, I can just pick up a chip (when and if I intend to upgrade) without the memory stick and have no worries..?
Sweeper
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January 3rd, 2002, 07:47 AM
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| | Canuck
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No you SHOULD worry. Anybody with an Athlon XP will be able to kick your 2 GHz's bootay!!! And for LESS money!! MUAHAHAHAAH!!! (Yes, I did just get an XP...) 
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January 3rd, 2002, 07:58 AM
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| | just passin thru
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Hey... not nice... 
She wanted it. She was tired of my "Screamer" I had. Made to much noise and I worked on it too much. Plus, the PC is in the living room, which made it worse. So, now I get to tinker with her PC.
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January 3rd, 2002, 07:59 AM
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| | Anime Otaku
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Wonder how an Athlon 2000+ compares to a Northwood with PC-800 in SSE optimized multimedia testing?  | |
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January 3rd, 2002, 08:54 AM
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Sweeper - on yours where was most of the noise? the psu fan or others?
Have a machine beside the bed - same thing - noisy as all get out.
I have it cracking - so it runs 24/7.
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January 3rd, 2002, 09:37 AM
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| | just passin thru
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I had 3 case fans which ran at 2500-3000 rpm's. On my T-Bird I had a Vantec CCK6035D which ran at 7000 rpm's. Last but not least my Visiontek GF3 has a Blorb on it also. Forgot: PSU fan.
So it was a bit noisy.
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January 3rd, 2002, 01:43 PM
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| | Canuck
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1x 80mm intake
2x40mm intake
2x 60mm exhaust
3x80mm exhaust
Cpu Fan
Chipset Fan
Video Card Fan
Slot Fan
12 fans... lol it was noisy... and still is!! | |
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