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The Celeron is no more!  ;D  ;D  ;D

My brother in law & Friend Tony a.k.a @Wolf@ has just upgraded (I built it!  ::) ) to a 2.8ghz h.t. 800fsb p4 with Springdale mobo & Dual channel 3200 RAM.

I scrounged his old p4 1.8 (Willamette core ) from him and enjoyed ripping out the old Celeron greatly!!!

CFS3's still crap  ::) Then again, I reckon it should be ok when I get another 512MB 'o RAM for XP.......

Time to alter the profile I suppose.....

Paul.

I saw your new specs.

I thought all p4's had 512k of L2 cache........

Learn something new everyday.

I wonder if a bios update (if any) will solve the issues on yer new rig. We played around with a Jetway board once, didn't like it much and sold it, but that was a while back.

Sorry to hear about the SB 5.1, how did you break it?

Also, I found XP uses around 120mb of RAM when you have plenty to spare....... and FS2004 was chewing around 120mb, all sliders up (just for the test) in Seatlle.

So, I wouldn't pin my hopes on too much improvement for CFS3 with more RAM, or does CFS3 chew lots more RAM? I uninstalled mine so I couldn't test it.

You must have been a bit  :-/ with envy building that PC for Wolf. Sounds Like a nice rig.

I built one with a P4 2.4 CPU pretty much the same other specs, put it on Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000Pro mainboard. This mainboard is fully featured and has some nice touches.

http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Pr ... 20Pro.htm#

I've seen these boards cheap lately, (of course I paid more), and the only beef I have is that when I overclock to 3 gig,  it gets a bit warm.  ;D

You know, the darn thing still wouldn't quite keep up with my AMD setup (nForce2 and XP2600+) in the Graphics benchmarks, I was gonna sell the P4 rig but my daughter thought it was the duck's nuts so she claimed it............ DOH! I'm still a poor boy..........

[quote]I saw your new specs.

I thought all p4's had 512k of L2 cache........

Learn something new everyday.

I wonder if a bios update (if any) will solve the issues on yer new rig. We played around with a Jetway board once, didn't like it much and sold it, but that was a while back.

Sorry to hear about the SB 5.1, how did you break it?

Also, I found XP uses around 120mb of RAM when you have plenty to spare....... and FS2004 was chewing around 120mb, all sliders up (just for the test) in Seatlle.

So, I wouldn't pin my hopes on too much improvement for CFS3 with more RAM, or does CFS3 chew lots more RAM? I uninstalled mine so I couldn't test it.

You must have been a bit