Choice of Socket 578 Intel processors and why?

[johnbullas]

Hi!

My ABit IC7-G will accept Intel® Socket 478 CPUs as follows

Intel® Pentium® 4

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/intel-p4.php

Intel® Pentium® 4 EE

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/intel-p4-ee.php

Intel® Celeron® D

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/intel-celeron-d.php

How do I choose between them assuming price is no object, basically which is "Best" for the same nominal processor speed (eg 3.0 GHz)?

FB

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[johnbullas]

Addendum: I mean Socket 478!!!!!!!!!

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[paparazi]

I'm not too knowledgable on Intel CPU's and cannot tell you specifically which model numbers are best but here is what I do know.
1) Heat was a real issue for early 800fsb Prescott's (they were very wasteful and users could face real dilema's controling case temps) I believe this problem was much improved on later 90nm 900 series (smaller die process and improved design lowers power consumption and heat output)

2)The best performing models came with 2mb of L3 cache so although good value Celeron's obviously are not the best performers (Celeron's are Intels budget line)

3) Extreme additions are the fastest but obviously cost substantialy more.

So what you want is a very late P4 for Socket 478 with 2mb L3 cache "whatever that series was called" sorry for the vagueness lol

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[wahnula]

According to :

http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.aspx?ProcFam=942&sSpec=&OrdCode=

Pentium M is available to fit socket 478. This is news to me as I always thought this required an adapter to fit in desktops.

This is Intel's best processor for the platform, but please confirm that it will work w/ your MB. This core the basis for the latest Core2Duo hotrods. These CPUs have slower clock speeds but are way more efficient and have a larger cache. I have a 1.6 GHz M 400fsb in my 3-year-old laptop that I use as a desktop at work and it is as fast as my 2.53 Northwood 533 fsb.

I would double-check with Intel but I have nothing but raves for the Pentium M.

Tony

 

[kmcferrin]

Pentium M is available to fit socket 478. This is news to me as I always thought this required an adapter to fit in desktops.

This is Intel's best processor for the platform, but please confirm that it will work w/ your MB. This core the basis for the latest Core2Duo hotrods.

Actually, the Pentium M was the basis for the original Core Duo (basically two Pentium M CPUs in the same chip package, just like the Pentium D was two Pentium 4 CPUs in the same chip package). The Core 2 Duo was a further evolution, not least in that it was designed from the ground up to be a single CPU with dual cores (as opposed to two single core CPUs kludged together) that could take advantage of those efficiencies (plus more cache and other architectural improvements).