P4 3 ghz: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz 800MHZ FSB Processor Review

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Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz 800MHZ FSB Processor Review

Abstract: While the AthlonXP 3200+
gives the P4 3.0C a good run for its money, the P4 is slightly faster in
the end as you’ll see.

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Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz 800MHZ FSB Processor Review

It’s quite
amazing how far the Pentium 4 has come in the last three years. I still remember a time when the original Williamette Socket 423 Pentium 4 1.5 GHz processor made its first debut. Despite all the «large numbers», performance
of the CPU was actually pretty absymal when compared to AMD’s solutions at
the time.

My oh my how times have changed. We’re up past
3GHz, a number which is pretty phenomenal considering the first computer many of
us used in the 486 days was clocked at just 33MHz. In any event, a history of
the Intel processor is not what we’re about to embark upon. Instead we are going
to be testing out the newest chip, the hottest thing since sliced bread if you
listen to Intel in fact — enter the 800MHz FSB Intel Pentium 4 3GHz Northwood
Socket 478 processor.

pentium 4’s were originally
clocked at 1.5 GHz with 256KB L2 cache and
running on a 400 MHz FSB, now the top of the line CPU from the men in blue runs at
3 GHz and comes packing 512KB of L2 cache. Based on the same Northwood core
that was released way back in January of 2002, the P4 3.0C (as it
is known in the geek circles) is a force to be reckoned with. While the AthlonXP 3200+
gives the P4 3.0C a good run for its money, the P4 is slightly faster in
the end as you’ll see.

Other then
running at a higher FSB
and supporting HyperThreading (which is disabled on some slower Northwood P4’s), there are no
physical or architectural differences between the P4 3.0C or older Northwood
based Pentium 4’s.

The Pentium 4 3.0C uses the same FC-PGA2 form factor as
previous Socket 478 processors, and while I love
the IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) the pins on the bottom are fragile and
tend to get bent pretty easily. If possible, it would be very interesting to see chip manufacturers add
a protective skirt around the outside edge to shield the pins from damage…. but maybe I’m just daydreaming
here.

The P4 3.0C is based on the new D1
revision of the Northwood core and the default voltage has been raised to 1.55V
from 1.525V (C1 and 1.5V for the original B0).

All Pentium 4 processors running
on a 200 MHz FSB have HyperThreading enabled (including the 2.4C, 2.6C and 2.8C)
and as we discussed earlier in our The Basics of HyperThreading: What is it? article, HyperThreading like has potential to revolutionize the way microprocessors function.
While I’m not going to dwell deep into HyperThreading in this
review, it in a nut shell allows the processor to work on two independent threads
(instructions are called threads) at the same time while (hopefully) utilizing the
free idling execution units with the CPU.

Voiding the
Warranty. ..

Overclocking with the
original Williamette Pentium 4’s was not a lot of fun however things are
totally different with the Northwood core. It was almost routine for lower
clocked Pentium 4’s to get at least a 1 GHz overclock and many times a 50-75%
overclock is not out of the question, especially if one uses hardcore type cooling methods
(water, phase change cooling, etc).

Using the new D1 revision of the Northwood core we were expecting some
nice numbers from the Pentium4 3.0C. Using MSI’s 875P Neo FIS2R motherboard as
the test bed we started to raise the FSB slowly… At 217 MHz FSB we
ran into a few stability problems but raising the CPU Vcore to 1.6V fixed
everything.

At 224 MHz FSB we again ran into stability problems and had to raise
the memory voltage to 2.8V and CPU voltage to 1.7V to stabilize things yet
again.

Our overclocking adventure came to an abrupt halt at 230 MHz FSB; no
matter what voltage we fed the Pentium 4 3. 0C we simply could not go higher. We can
only guess that the motherboard was holding us back as we have gone past
235 MHz FSB on other motherboards while using the same cooling. In any case the benchmarks
are next!!

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Contents of Article: Intel 3GHz 800MHz FSB

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— Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz 800MHZ FSB Processor Review
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System Spec’s and benchmarks
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Benchmarks: Benchmarks: Super Pi, POVRay
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Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2003, PCMark2002
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Benchmarks: 3DMark2001SE, 3DMark03
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Benchmarks: Quake III Arena, UT2003
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Fast processor, high price…
 

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Is the Pentium 4 Still Good Enough to Use for Business? | Small Business

By Steve Lander

Continuing to use an old processor for business machines can save money, as long as it doesn’t slow you down. First released in 2000, the Pentium 4 family of Intel central processing unit chips sold until the summer of 2006. These chips run at clock speeds ranging from 1 GHz all of the way up to 3.8 GHz, and had a new architecture for its time. Looking at how the Pentium 4 matches up to modern operating system and business application will give you a good idea of how well it will work in a business computer.

Windows 7

  1. The Pentium 4 can handily run Windows 7. The operating system’s only CPU requirements are a clock speed of at least 1 GHz, support for 32- or 64-bit computing and the ability to support at least 1GB of RAM for 32-bit installations or 2GB of RAM for 64-bit installations. Even entry-level Pentium 4 chips meet these standards.

Windows 8

  1. Windows 8’s system requirements are similar to those of Windows 7, but with one key difference. To run Windows 8, a processor must not just be fast enough, but it must also have an expanded instruction set. Windows 8 requires processors to support the SSE2 expanded set of multimedia features as well as Physical Address Expansion technology. All Pentium 4 chips include those two features. Windows 8 also requires support for No Execute or Execute Disable Bit technology, which enables the processor to lock off certain areas of memory. Older Pentium 4 processors do not include NX/EDB functionality and can’t run Windows 8.

Application Compatibility

  1. In addition to running Windows, most Pentium 4 chips can also handle three of the most essential business tools — Microsoft Office, Intuit QuickBooks and the Firefox Web browser. The Pentium 4 falls on the bottom end of the system requirements for Office 2010 and Office 2013. It meets the 1-GHz minimum speed for Office 2013 and Outlook 2010 and exceeds the 500-MHz minimum for every other application in standard versions of Office 2010. QuickBooks Pro, which is the entry-level desktop version of small business accounting software, can also run on the Pentium 4, although it’s more demanding. It requires a processor that has a clock speed of at least 2 GHz and recommends a 2.4-GHz or faster processor. Later Pentium 4s handily exceed those speeds. Firefox simply requires an SSE2-compatible Pentium 4.

Drawbacks

  1. There are some significant drawbacks to continuing to use older computers and components such as Pentium 4 chips. Because the computers are slower, they may make the people using them less productive, requiring more time to perform tasks. While the Pentium 4 can run basic business applications, its lower power makes it inadequate for more demanding tasks like financial modeling, graphics production or other specialized tasks. Finally, given that the Pentium 4 was sold between 2000 and 2006, the computers that use it are relatively old. This puts their other components, including the hard drives on which they store data, at a much higher risk of failure, if they’re original. In other words, the chip might be OK, but the computer that it sits in could break down at any time.

References

  • Microsoft: Windows 7 System Requirements
  • Microsoft: Windows 8 System Requirements
  • Ars Technica: Intel Launches Pentium 4 With NX Support
  • Microsoft: What is PAE, NX, and SSE2 and Why Does my PC Need to Support them to Run Windows 8?
  • Microsoft: System Requirements for Office 2010
  • Microsoft: System Requirements for Office 2013
  • Intuit QuickBooks: FAQs — System Requirements for QuickBooks Pro and Premier
  • Mozilla Foundation: Firefox 14 System Requirements

Writer Bio

Steve Lander has been a writer since 1996, with experience in the fields of financial services, real estate and technology. His work has appeared in trade publications such as the «Minnesota Real Estate Journal» and «Minnesota Multi-Housing Association Advocate.» Lander holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Columbia University.

Overclocking Intel Pentium 4 630 (3.0GHz) — high, easy and simple

It is interesting to follow the preferences of overclockers, based on our

overclocking statistics

processors. Take, for example, AMD Athlon 64 (data correct as of 08/28/05).

There are few processors on the ClawHammer core, only 85. No wonder, the first A64s were quite expensive and did not overclock very well. In fact, even this figure is overstated, since among the list there are ClawHammer with 512KB of cache. It was in this way — by cutting the cache memory in half — that the first analogues of NewCastle were produced. By the way, this is the most massive processor among the A64 so far, there are 229 of them. . Also not surprising, given the reduced price and good overclocking potential. Then Winchester processors began to gain strength, there were 207 of them, but now the growth has slowed down significantly, and Venice processors have entered the scene. This is a definite hit! Despite the fact that they appeared the latest, there are already 177 of them and the number is growing rapidly. Several overclocking results for Venice-based processors are added daily, they will soon overtake their predecessors, because these are not hot, inexpensive, productive and excellent overclocking stones.

The oldest representative of Intel Pentium 4 processors is Willamette. Despite the advantage in time, there are only 137 overclocking results. Firstly, overclocking statistics do not exist for as long as this core, and secondly, who needs them so miserably? It is easy to predict that the Northwood core is the leader among P4 — 1228 results. It is quite logical, since these processors turned out to be very successful and many models, gradually replacing each other, have been on the market for an unusually long time. Despite the fact that the release of Northwood has been discontinued, and Intel is actively promoting processors based on the Prescott core, there are only 335 of them so far. The number will inevitably increase, but the decline is already a foregone conclusion, although the last revision of E0 can be considered relatively successful. Not so long ago, the youngest processors of the Prescott family appeared in statistics, there are only 15 of them so far — Prescott-2M. They may not become «killers» of Prescott processors, but they can noticeably slow down their growth.

Prescott-2M is an unofficial name, formally these are all the same Prescott processors, only their cache memory is doubled, up to 2 MB, which is reflected in the kernel name. The increased amount of cache memory cannot but affect performance, although it increases by only a few percent and this is not at all the processors that attracted my attention. Interestingly, their overclocking results are very decent, and lately there has not been a single one below 4 GHz. It’s time for us to get acquainted with the «600th» family, for which three Intel Pentium 4 630 (3.0GHz) processors were received for tests.


The CPU-Z utility correctly detects a new processor and reports its characteristics. If we are interested in the details, then you can go to the Intel Processor Spec Finder website for them, for which it is enough to know the processor markings — SL7Z9 .


Lately I’ve been enjoying visiting the Intel Processor Spec Finder site more and more. This ordinary, everyday and even previously boring procedure is gradually turning into an exciting guessing game — but will Intel tell us something new? So this time we see the mysterious line: «This is a boxed processor with an unattached fan heatsink», which can be translated something like this: «This is a boxed processor with no cooler attached». Do others exist or are they planned to be produced?

In general, the idea is interesting — instead of supplying processors with heat-dissipating covers, you can immediately imprint the core into the heatsink. Lots of benefits! Firstly, processors will be better cooled, as additional barriers to thermal conductivity disappear. Numerous core-thermal paste-cover-thermal paste-heatsink transitions are reduced to core-thermal paste-heatsink. Secondly, it is a convenient way to deal with overclockers. Good cooling is the key to good overclocking, and if we cannot change the stunted standard cooler, then we will not be able to decently overclock the processor. Thirdly, change will require mounting changes, which is a great reason to force us to buy new motherboards.

We can add a few more real pluses, for example, it will simplify and speed up the assembly of computers, since today’s processor mounting on the LGA775 is far from ideal. In fact, under certain assumptions, the transition to the production of processors integrated with heatsinks can really be useful.

recommendations

If we return to the information provided by the Intel Processor Spec Finder site, it seemed interesting to me that now the maximum voltage is limited to 1. 388 V versus 1.4 V for «regular» Prescott processors. Isn’t the reduced voltage, and, consequently, power consumption, heat dissipation and temperature, the reason for the good overclocking results of these processors? Let’s check and for this we use an open test bench, which includes:

  • Motherboard — Asus P5WD2 Premium (i955X), rev. 1.02 BIOS 0422
  • Video card — NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT (16p/6v, 350/1000 MHz)
  • Memory — Corsair TWIN2X1024A-4300C3
  • Hard Drive — Western Digital Raptor WD740GD
  • Cooler — Zalman CNPS7700Cu
  • Thermal grease — Zalman
  • Power Supply — SilverStone Zeus ST65ZF (650W)
  • Operating system — WinXP SP2.

You know, I did everything as usual — I reduced the memory frequency in advance, did not increase the voltage at first, gradually raised the bus frequency, using the operating system as a preliminary test, but overclocking has not been given with such reckless ease for a long time.

At first I was cautious and started testing with a child (as it turned out later) FSB frequency of 250 MHz. The first processor easily took this ridiculous frequency for it and did not stop up to 290 MHz! Only with this bus frequency did it just start, but it could no longer load Windows. 4.2 GHz is an excellent result (285×15=4275) and it’s doubly pleasant that the second processor was able to repeat it. The third was only a little behind, having coped with the FSB 280 MHz, and a more detailed test was later carried out with the first pair of processors.

Loading the OS, the ability to take and process a screenshot is nothing if we are really interested in the stability of the overclocked processor, but at the stage of verification by the S&M 1.7.2 utility. there were problems. Despite the relatively low temperature just above 60°C, the processor fell out of the tests over and over again or began to reduce the frequency due to overheating, and the FSB had to be lowered lower and lower. As a result, the test was passed… at a children’s (funny, frivolous, plasticine) frequency of 250 MHz.


We can’t say that this is a very bad result, but for these processors it is definitely insufficient. It is obvious that the potential is not revealed and something limits us. It is logical to assume that the Zalman CNPS7700Cu cooler can’t cope and it was replaced with a Gigabyte 3D Galaxy water cooling system, after which things immediately went smoothly.

I really wanted to get the processor to work at a frequency of 300 MHz, I spent a lot of time trying to find the optimal parameters, but this frequency turned out to be unattainable, and the processor did not respond to an increase in voltage. By the way, the nominal voltage of all three processors is maximum for this model and is 1.388 V. However, stability without increasing the voltage at a frequency of 285 MHz is very good and the temperature is not higher than 56.8°C.


The second processor looked a little better, it weakly, but still responded to voltage increases and was even able to work at 290 MHz FSB for some time, which was not possible for the first processor — it crashed with an error almost immediately after the start of S&M.

Usually I don’t find out the CPU overclocking limit to the nearest megahertz, I check them with some step, usually 5 MHz FSB. It may very well be that the processor will be able to add 2-3 MHz, but so what? This does not change the overall picture, and a certain frequency margin gives additional confidence in the stability of the overclocked processor. Not this time…

Since the frequency of 290 MHz is unrealistic, then maybe the processor will work at 287 or 286 MHz, because in this case the final operating frequency will be «beautiful» 4.3 GHz? However, it did not work either at these frequencies, or even at 285 MHz. How is it, because the first processor easily coped with this frequency, and the second looks even a little more promising than the first? I install the first processor again and it successfully … does not pass the test at a frequency of 285 MHz, although shortly before that it performed this task, and more than once.

The answer turned out to be very simple. 285 MHz is very close to the limiting frequency of processors in these conditions. It took a lot of time for the tests, and the work of an overclocked computer is quite comparable to a small stove, so the temperature in the room has increased noticeably and the cooling system has ceased to cope. Increasing the rotation speed of the fan blowing over the CBO radiator from 1800 to 1900 rpm made it possible to pass the test, however, the temperature, despite the increase in the number of revolutions, even increased and amounted to 58.9°C.

Obviously, the transition to water cooling allows you to push the limit of overclocking the processor and in some cases very significantly, compare, for example, 3750 MHz when using the Zalman CNPS7700Cu cooler and 4280 MHz when switching to Gigabyte 3D Galaxy — the increase was more than 500 MHz! However, the further, the less I like the use of CBO. First of all, due to the lack of any water cooling system — hoses. In a home computer, it is easy to arrange them comfortably and forget for a while, but on a test system, even an open one, they are a big problem, especially since the sockets are located differently on different motherboards and sometimes installing CBO requires significant changes.

Secondly, the shortcomings of a particular system Gigabyte 3D Galaxy. The mounting frame for the LGA775 is screwed on the back of the motherboard, which is not very convenient. Also, the noise is annoying. The 1600 rpm I started with the Gigabyte 3D Galaxy is quiet enough. 1800 rpm, which I had to switch to later, is loud for the house, but still quite acceptable for short tests. Today’s 1900 rpm is too much.

I must say that I would not put our power supply in my home computer either. Under a Prescott 4 GHz load, its fan spins to maximum and this noise drowns out almost everything except the pump. Its crackle can be quieter or louder, but it is always audible due to a different tone, which is different from the low-frequency rumble created by the fans in the system.

I don’t want to say that Gigabyte 3D Galaxy is a bad water cooling system, at present it is almost the only water cooler available in Russia, but it is not able to cool such strongly overclocked Intel Pentium 4 processors silently. However, it can be used to cool less hot or less overclocked processors. At one time, I praised the Gigabyte G-Power Pro cooler for its efficiency, but scolded it because of the rather high noise level even at the minimum 1700 rpm. At the same time, if you use a different regulator and reduce the rotation speed to at least 1600 rpm, then the cooler operates almost silently, more quietly and more efficiently than Zalman CNPS7000-Cu, for example.

In addition, we must remember that for all the shortcomings, without the Gigabyte 3D Galaxy, we would not have been able to achieve such impressive overclocking results.

Summing up the test of Intel Pentium 4 630 processors, we can say that they look quite attractive:

  • have all modern technologies: NX-bit, EM64T, EIST, etc.;
  • due to the increased amount of cache memory provide a higher level of performance compared to the «old» Prescott;
  • do it almost for free, since their price is almost the same as the «old» ones;

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  • overclocks well when cooled well.