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Prescott pricing

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kovermours

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I'm going to be slapping together a computer for myself late Feb or early March, once the nifty-ass prescott becomes widely available! My question is about budgeting for the chip. The computer i want to wrap around this most glorious of processors will be as follows:

(all prices in canadian dollars)

Asus P4C800-E Deluxe 875P ATX Audio LAN Firewire S-ATA 800FSB $249
512M DDR-PC3200: 400mhz Spectek /Infineon 2x$85 = $170
WD1200JD: 120GB 7200rpm, S-ATA150, 9ms, 8M $138
Radeon 9600 XT 256M DDR, VGA, DVI, TV-O, AGP8x (oem) $242
Lian Li PC6077 Aluminum Case w/o P.S. $167
Seasonic Super Tornado 400 Quiet P.S. $149
Zalman CNPS7000-Cu Copper Heat Sink + Fan $46

$1,511 w/o taxes

I'm really focusing on silence over performance, as I find spending $600 on a video card and $350-$550 on ram a little excessive.

Anyway, how much should I budget for Prescott? I'd like the best one that will fit in with these specs. I've heard the 2.8GHz will be $190USD. How high should I go? Which will oc the best with this configuration? Should I get a slightly faster P4 "C" instead?

Am I making any sense?
 
yeah, id wait for the Prescott, i've been using a Celeron in the mean time, its cheap, performance is good enough for me, fills in the gap between now and Prescott, should be released like late January, early Febuary? I doubt that the lower clocked Prescott will be expensive, just the high end ones, so, um, yeah, about 180 approximately for the 2.8E with 1MB cache
 
If your waiting on Prescott you need to wait on the new motherboards too. Intel and VIA will both be showing off new chipsets for prescotts release. PCI-Express will be a big part of this also.

I would also look into some better RAM. I realize your on a budget but i would spend more on the RAM. RAM is very important and if you get crappy RAM its going to limit your overclocks. Mushkin PC3500 lvl 2 is only $133 for 512MB sticks. Or even buy the cheaper Mushkin lvl 1 or something from Corsair or Kingston instead.
 
You make is sound like Corsair is the cheap stuff....not true...my Corsair has been nothing but awesome....in no way a "second" choice...
 
I dont make it sound like cheap stuff. But its also not the best stuff. Mushkin has always been the best RAM manufacter for a long time now. They have always been more expensive usually too so people dont buy enough of it to know how good it is. Its pretty reasonably priced now though. Mushkin lvl 2 is the most overclockable RAM out right now. Runs 2-2-2-5 at extreme overclocks. Corsair is great RAM but for me i have to say its definately a "second" choice for right now as long as mushkin lvl 2 is at a reasonable price. It sorta depends on your platform though because i've heard Corsair with CH-5 chips seems to run a little better than BH-5 on some AMD setups.
 
that mobo supports Prescott, that's why i picked it. the i875p is a good enough chipset for me. that, and the p4c800-e deluxe has already had a chance to come down in price.

the cheapest Corsair 2x512mb PC3200 is 3200C2 (2-3-3-7), it's $355 so it's way out of my price range. Hey, I can upgrade it very easily later, and I'm spending enough on a frickin damn 17" LCD and 8x Plextor dvd burner. I'll probably get another HD before i get new ram, though. it's just not that important to me.

None of that Mushkin stuff is available locally, just OCZ, Corsair, and Kingston.

I guess if everyone here thinks that ram is *that* important, I could get Kingston ValueRAM (), $137 each.

In some earlier price schemes for this rig, back around October when I decided i needed a new one, I put some Corsair 3200LL in it. The price quickly rose above $2000 so I made some cutbacks.

Also, ram doesn't make noise, luckily. as long this computer is quiet and will run HL2 like a madman (not to mention the prescott) i'll be happy.
 
If you can wait, try getting the 3.0 ghz Prescott or better. It should have an 800 mhz bus speed and HT, which the lowest processor, the 2.8, will be running on a 533 bus and have no HT.
 
The board may support Prescott but prescott is built on a new 90 nano process and so its going to require different voltages than a normal Pentium 4. The board may run it ok but i would get one of the new boards if your going to buy the new processor. No reason to get an old motherboard that may or may not work real well with Prescott.

The new motherboards will feature all sorts of improvments on the new chipsets. PCI Express is just one of the many.

As far as the RAM goes if your not planning to overclock then that RAM will be ok. But if you want to overclock the processor then you need higher quality "overclockers RAM" like Mushkin, Corsair, or Kingston.
 
i had no idea the 2.8GHz Prescott was going to be 533. I assumed (wrong) that they were all 800/HT.

PCI-Express (I'd heard of 3GIO but never heard them together) seems worth waiting for! I guess this will turn into a april - may computer.
 
i found this in another thread, and i know i've seen a similar article somewhere:

# "Prescott" / 3,4 GHz / 1 MB L2-Cache / FSB800 / HyperThreading / SSE3 417$
# "Prescott" / 3,2 GHz / 1 MB L2-Cache / FSB800 / HyperThreading / SSE3 278$
# "Prescott" / 3,0 GHz / 1 MB L2-Cache / FSB800 / HyperThreading / SSE3 218$
# "Prescott" / 2,8 GHz / 1 MB L2-Cache / FSB800 / HyperThreading / SSE3 178$
# "Prescott A" / 2,8 GHz / 1 MB L2-Cache / FSB533 / no HyperThreading / SSE3 163$

pick + choose for me, please.

but not the 533MHz one.
 
I vote for this one:
# "Prescott" / 2,8 GHz / 1 MB L2-Cache / FSB800 / HyperThreading / SSE3 178$

Undoubtably it will be the OC king. I'm gonna miss the 300FSB of the 2.4C at 3.6GHz though....if the benches are better though, who really cares?

-kjb
 
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