LOL just bought a Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73 GHz socket 775

[clipperjay]

A little story about 13 years ago I really wanted this chip!
It was going for about £800 at the time I opted for a 570J which on par was half the price, but matched it on speed @ 3.8Ghz.
I wanted to run a 64bit windows 7 but mines running 32bits but this chip is a 64bit step processor.
L2 cache with 1066 front Bus. So I've just bought this chip for £30.00 odd quid the other chap wanted it badly as he ran me to my proxi. by 10P LOL! They only made this in limited numbers lets hope its a good one?
And yes I know a pentium D dual core could run me to the ground, but I have a rare chip that will proberly never run right on my rig yeah.....!!!!!
Thanks thought I let you geeks know about my highlight of this evening for me 

http://ark.intel.com/products/27492/Pentium-4-Processor-Extreme-Edition-supporting-HT-Technology-3_73-GHz-2M-Cache-1066-MHz-FSB 

[bobbarley]

You need to get out more 

[Kerrse]

a 13 year old chip sounds a bit off 

[clipperjay]

You need to get out more 

 

a 13 year old chip sounds a bit off 

Its like a classic car you really wanted one like a MK1 gti, but always dam too expensive to own one 

The thing is if you ask how many people have single die's running 64bit back in 2005? Answer no one except a very few Elitetist geeks I bought this for fun its the last P4 ever made on single die!
 

[justalex81]

it's a POS that's what it is!!! 

enjoy those system hangs. just need a 4gb hard drive to go with it 

[clipperjay]

The POS shopping list goes on found some decent DDR2 PC6400 Viper ram 4Gigs twins they will exploit my motoway with five lanes! 

If I can run XP on an old P2 I can run win7 on a P4 single die dam you! 
have to entertain myself other wise I could just buy a Chrome Book or an Apple and laugh at the 16gig ram boys only ever use 4gigs 

Do want a water cooled block for my birthday anyone want to buy me one?

[Jay]

That chip is from end of 2004  think you got the wrong chip 

I had a 64bit AMD 3000+ chip in 2005  never used XP 64 bit, only FreeBSD 64bit. Sindows 8 is actually running really well on a clients old Pentium D 3.2Ghz Dell DXP051 he wanted to keep a live and uses it daily ! His new Macbook Air has been ear marked for a Win8 upgrade when Apple releases the drivers for it.

[clipperjay]

why wrong chip jay? I've only got a motherboard that can only use p4, dual core will not work plus Bus speed is 1066MHz no series 600 duo will work on it. Dam phone typing is a chore.
It was released Feb 21 2005

North Bridge: Intel Alderwood i925XE

South Bridge: Intel 82801FR ICH6R

[Organisys]

I remember these were considered the nuts back in the day...benefit of hindsight means they were overpriced junk!

[clipperjay]

Well I'm running it and its stable my ram is 1:1 and much more quieter than my 570J @ X19 mulitiplier!
Yeah noway I was paying 800 odd for it back then, but its a nice upgrade for my legacy system as I can run 64bit apps now. Funny back then 64bit apps really didnt exist.
All good the thermal paste on the old chip was bad like non exisitent Artic siliver is good stuff 
Next test is win7 64bit over the weekend