new graphics card

[regis]

[quote="Replica";p="39810"]
yeah its gonna be on this board i've already purchased

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131013
[/quote]
I like the onboard eSATA port.

[gator]

[quote="Replica";p="39813"]it should be a nice boost over the 1.82ghz p4 i have in now...[/quote]

Definitely. Almost anything would be a boost above that though. P4 was just a terribly designed processor

[TACOBELL]

^^ not as bas as P3 thought

[Clay Pigeon]

[quote="TACOBELL";p="39905"]^^ not as bas as P3 thought [/quote]
In terms of design? No, the p3 is better than the p4. It just never was fabbed at the needed frequencies. The tualatins were outperforming p4s and it created a marketing issue with the p4's being outperformed by mobile and server parts from the p3 line, so they never extended the p3s very far beyond 1.3 GHz. Clock for clock the p3 would tear pretty much any other x86 chip in half. I know what was true of the p4 line, as well as the old thunderbird athlon cores. I dont know how the AXPs and a64s stack up clock per clock with the p3, but since the athlon had more pipeline steps than the p3, and the a64 had more steps than the athlon, I believe the p3 still gets more done per clock.

If anyone knows more/knows that I'm wrong, feel free to speak up. I havent paid as much attention as I did in the past to processor design after getting out of undergrad.