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| Stormdemon:
I bought a P4 at 2400 and I've overclocked it to 2700mhz with no additional cooling. It works perfect. I think you can push it to 3ghz without troubles. I've also heard celerons at 2ghz can reach 3ghz easily. I've heard Athlons have more problems with heating. |
| Spaced Invader:
I have a 2ghz Celeron and a 1700mhz Athlon XP both run everything--well almost no crusin. All the N64 stuff runs fine though. And both processors are pretty cheap. As long as you have a decent graphics card (GeForce or Radeon) and a 1500mhz+ processor you should be O.K. PS. Never had ANY problems with AMD. ??? |
| kspiff:
Most of the problems are probably related to older chipsets on the mobos from ViA. Never had any probs with AMD, either, just some crappy mobos :( |
| Lilwolf:
Celerons and Durons are about 10% slower then their big brothers. I thought I noticed more of a difference in emulation itself. I also see more of an improvement in AMD's over Intels in emulation (less so in 3d games). AMD is hands down the best for the money. Not even close. But Intel still has the fastest computers if you have the money. AND... cheap motherboards kinda stink... but just make sure that you get a bios upgrade right away and you should be fine... I have a VERY good motherboard and it probably wasn't worth the money... (I did get the AGP8x... why I got it... only good motherboards back then had it. |
| isugoat:
--- Quote from: crashdmj on July 11, 2003, 10:55:32 pm ---What speed would be good to run say a N64 game (I really like Mario Kart 64) plus all the other emus? Would it be overkill to get a P4 2.4 800tn so as to get "hyper threading" (I think thats what it is)? Derek --- End quote --- hyperthreading probably won't help you gain too much, so don't base a decision on that. i think most reviews showed that gains from HT were not very substantial. |
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