Oldest Pentium 4

[Demos_sav]

Hey guys. I was wondering how many GHz is the oldest Pentium 4. That's all. Thanks for your help.

[DanTheBanjoman]

1.4Ghz Willamette as far as I know. Even though some product specs claim to need a 1.2GHz model instead.
The Willamette core blew though, you were better off with a Tualatin in those days.

[Demos_sav]

Thanks Dan:toast:

[Demos_sav]

What about laptops? What is their slowest Pentium 4 core?

[Sasqui]

The Willamette core blew though, you were better off with a Tualatin in those days.

Way true, the 1.3 Tualatin Celeron kicked the 1.8Ghz P4's butt! I went through upgrading 5 different P3 Slot1 systems to that, using the Abit "Slotket" - all lasted years.

The problem was finding a motherboard with native Tualatin support, Abit made only one version and what a great board that was - I think it was based on the 815 chipset, can't remember the name...

Sorry for the rant, I'm getting nostalgic :)

[ktr]

there is a 1.3ghz P4 for the skt 423, which i have on my other machine.

1.4Ghz Willamette as far as I know. Even though some product specs claim to need a 1.2GHz model instead.
The Willamette core blew though, you were better off with a Tualatin in those days.

rambus killed it.

[Demos_sav]

Thank you everybody

[DanTheBanjoman]

rambus killed it.

Rambus was good, the performance issues weren't caused by it in any way. It was just a crap core.

[ktr]

the great wikipedia:


Socket 423 is a CPU socket that was used for the first Pentium 4 processors based on the Willamette core. The socket was short-lived, as it became apparent that it had inadequate electrical design, which would have not allowed many clock speed rises above 2.0GHz. Intel produced chips using this socket for less than a year, from November 2000 to August 2001. It was replaced by Socket 478.