P4 PGA478 vs P4 533FSB for AH?

[Toad]

Which is better for playing AH or is there really a difference for gaming?

They're priced about the same for a given speed, so what's the way to go?

[Pfunk]

Athlon XP with Nforce2, best cost/performance ratio.  P4's are ridiculously overpriced

[Skuzzy]

Pfunk,..that was not his question.

Toad,..the PGA478 is just the socket type.

The current P4's come in a couple of different types.  The 533FSB (Front Side Bus) is the fastest and most expensive of the lot.

It will all depend on what your motherboard supports.

What brand/model motherboard is it?

[Toad]

Hasn't been bought yet Skuzzy.

Just at the point of pulling my hair out getting AH to run on a Gigabyte GA-7VAX that I put in when my ASUS A7V266 developed a bad RAM slot and was frying sticks right and left.

The Gigabyte is a problem. Computer keeps locking although I've tried 2 different video cards, 2 different sound cards, formatted and reinstalled Windows and all this in various combinations.

It just doesn't like to run any game. Locks up shortly after starting anything. It'll web surf and do documents all day though.

So, I'm going to change MB's and I may well change processors same time as the old ASUS just got back from RMA and I can put it in a hand-me-down system for my son with the current AMD chip.

So, I'm looking at these two Pentium versions. Looks like it's just a 400 FSB versus 533 FSB. Given the RAM I have, that won't matter for the foreseeable future and either should run AH just fine, I'm thinking.

[woodfordb]

What ram you got? SDRAM, DDR (What speed) or even RDRAM(again what speed).

as this could influence what motherboard / cpu you go for.

Regards

Mandrill

[Toad]

Well, visited the computer shop with Rude. Managed to convince a skeptical owner that there was something amiss with the Gigabyte sound processing, either through the onboard or through a PCI slot.

He finally agreed to replace the board.

We had this new board in quick as you can and "voila".. right now all is well and working smoothly in AH.

If it stays that way for a few hours flying, I'll declare success.

Jeez, sure is nice not to lock up in mid-flight.

Added a GeF4 while I was about it. (Sorry Skuzzy. I took the Radeon 9500 Pro back. To many artifacts and too many striped screens which might.. or might not.. have been the sound problem. They had an Asylum Ti4600 for the same price so I traded.)

Yep, I'm smiling into the New Year right now.

Thanks for the help folks!