Anyone suggest a good cheap old CPU?

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Whipsmack

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I'm looking for a Pentium 4, but there are so many different versions I just dunno. I found some 400FSB 1.7 GHZ processors for pretty cheap on e-bay, but I heard a while back that the old socket 478's are ultra crappy. Anyone care to comment?

I'm trying to build a decent CPU to play World of Warcraft on and want to get ultra cheap parts.

Thanks!
 
are you building an entirely new computer from scratch? (aka you don't already have existing video cards or anything you want to use?) If that's the case, then don't go with old hardware. It may be cheap but it'll leave you stranded in the long run if/when you want to upgrade it. Instead, just go with low-end but modern parts in order to keep prices low. In this case I'd recommend go with either a sempron box or a celeron D box. You can grab a sempy or celery for ~60 bucks, grab a 6600LE for like 50 bucks, etc.

What is the budget you're working with? how cheap?
 
go with the d805. its dual core and $130 (last I checked). its 2.66 GHz and if you can overclock (at all) then it'll go over 3GHz easy. In my opinion its not worth it to buy used processors. Its just not worth the hassle and the in box stuff is easily overlooked.
 
If ya wanna go cheap i would go with a amd 64 emachine they can be had for under 300 on ebay with 1 gig of ram 160gig sata hdd dcvd burner and a free pci express slot then spend a some cash on a good vid card and your all set to play wow for as long as ya want and will keep your cost under 500 if you dont go with a super high end card
 
If you need a s478, look for either a Celeron D (if its compatible with you're motherboard) or a P4C.
 
Thanks for all the replies, I was always told celeron = really really bad...I don't know, I suppose they are better than the old P4's though right?

I've already got a harddrive, and a video card, everything else would be from scratch. I was hoping to find an old computer for like $100, but I guess you can't find that...

People are insane on e-bay I saw some 2.4GHZ procesoors with 533 FSB going for $60!?!? man I could spend $30 more and get an AMD athlon 64

There is one problem though, my video card I have is AGP.
 
try to get an athlon xp socket a or check out newegg refurbed sections or the forums here on the hard
 
Whipsmack said:
People are insane on e-bay I saw some 2.4GHZ procesoors with 533 FSB going for $60!?!? man I could spend $30 more and get an AMD athlon 64.
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I bought two 3.06/533/512 P4s a coupla months ago for $180 and $150. Now I see them going for $200+. These are great performers, but the prices do seem out of line, given what's out there that's newer and faster and cheaper
 
those p4's are going for so much because they were the first hyperthreading chips and the ONLY 533FSB P4's to get HT. They are also the highest clocked 533 chips you can get, so they carry the same inflated price as the 3.4C's.
 
Yeah, if you're sticking with s478, I'd see if your board supports 800mhz FSB and get a 2.4C or something similar.
 
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