3.8 GHz Intel's highest clocked Pentium 4

by the time this came out people were already aware P4 was all marketing and no punch.
Had a 1.7GHz one in 2002. It was the PC i had for less time, by 2005 i was already jumping ship to AMD 64 X2.

I don't have a Pentium 4 3.8GHz here, mine with 775 is only 3.2 😁 and the other 478 is 3.4.... But I still have an exotic Socket 604 machine with two NetBurst based Xeon Nocona processors with 3.6 GHz... the device is also very fast. Server technology repurposed a bit 😁 I use a Radeon R7 250 with 2 GB as a graphics card. It sounds boring, but considering its age, it is a very good graphics card for such an aged system. The only disadvantage is that the PCI Express card is connected to the normal PCI bus via a PCI bridge. Therefore, unfortunately, this is the bottleneck. But it worked almost 14,000 points with 3D Mark 2001 SE in 1280 x 1024 at 32 bit, Pure Hardware T&L and Triple Buffering.

The best Pentium4
Can be oc 4444Mhz?

I have a couple boards that the max is a P4 or Pentium D. In my tests the Pentium D runs better than the higher clocked P4 w/ HT. I still like the P4 for a retro build 👍

Imagine to have this in 2004, you would be king of your classroom. 😀 BTW, I was disapointed by performance of later Cedar Mill core for sc 775 compared to sc 478 prescott, I pretty much don't see any difference, sometimes it feels like those sc 478 Pentium 4s were actually better.

115W isn't all that much tbh. A high spec i7 beats that easily.

jeez a 10 ghz cpu... isn't that gonna burn your house down?

You called 2005 PC retro? I feel so old also 3.8Ghz in 2005 is so ahead of it’s time

Tom's lab did it at 5 GHz

Thank God im not into gaming.. $$$$$$$

this CPU is still expensive, it sells around $70 on eBay

Como se llama la base donde tienes la mother o la encontraste por ahí y la adaptaste?

I run Firestrike on this CPU with an R9 270. I got an anchievement "Mystery Machine: Submit a result using new hardware that isn't recognised by 3DMark"

What about the P4 3.6Ghz Cedar Mill? (P4 661)
Would that be better then Prescott-2M at 3.8Ghz?
What about OC? Maybe Cedar Mill its vastly better after OC.

*Laughs on Pentium 4 2.8ghz HT

Simply amazing!! Could you make a video with the GeForce 9400 GT DDR2 1Gb and 8Gb RAM?

What OS were you running for these tests?

Can you compare the Pentium 4 cpus to Pentium 3 cpus to see how different they perform?

Ewww Netbust.

Such wattage, and heat as they increased MHz or voltage, but what if the pins had cooling, would the need of wattage be demanded? Phil, take a gpu and apply pressure for cooling using a ceramic tile. Since it isn't conductive, it would be stable. Remember that video with the VOODOO 3, the back of the video card was up 70c and more, but what if a ceramic tile was there. Better hurry because I think Intel is about to use this strategy of cooling. Instead of 0.14 micron they are going 0.28, so would they have got it at last?

my old desktop pc was a Pentium D...

Would you be able to test the pentium 4 630 Vs 631 to see if the die shrink makes a difference in performance, heat output and power consumption

Can you test how it performs with Elder Scrolls: Oblivion please?

The best models are:
Pentium 4 HT 672 3.8GHz (SL8Q9) 800MHz FSB 2MB L2 Cache 115W LGA775 1-Core 2-Thread
(169 million transistors)

Pentium 4 HT 661 3.6GHz (SL8WF/SL94V 1.25-1.4v, SL96H/SL9KD 1.2-1.325v) 800MHz FSB 2MB L2 Cache 86W LGA775 PAE 32-bit 1-Core 2-Thread
(188 million transistors)

Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz (SL7Z4) 1066MHz FSB 2MB L2 Cache 115W LGA775 1-Core 2-Thread
(169 million transistors)

What about the P4 EE 3.73Ghz, it is Prescott-2M CPU and had a 266Mhz BUS and support for 1066Mhz DDR2...

The crazy thing is that there already was some cool tech like Bumpless build up layer and diamond based semi conductors tested in labs. First one could have had guaranteed 10 GHz and another one let CPU ran lots of times more efficient and could have let CPU to run at insane 81GHz.

That's faster than my cpu

Where do you get your test bench??? I want one

im trying to look for another Pentium processor for my old 780 because i thought it was intels best, but im trying to find one with the right socket, mine is a LGA 755 type, any suggestions? specifically one over 3.0 ghz thanks

I feel old :-(

Ah, the good old Press-hot. These P4s make excellent heaters in the winter.

minimum requierement is a Core2duo for 2018 I would say. the pentium 4 are to weak for the most games, but you can even install win 10 on them & for multimedia system it should be enogh.

I have a question. What if i use exact the same specs but with GTX 960 ? Since it the last card supported by Windows xp . Good idea? No?

For ultimate P4 exp u need p4 D965

Yes need to logout GUI and login as root to start new session

Im running a P45 is with a Xeon E5440 at 3.9 Ghz with HD 7850 with SSD and its a beast. No need for a faster machine even today, runs most modern games on medium/high at 1080p.

If you're testing Half Life 2, Doom 3, and NFS Underground, when do you think you can sneak TES IV: Oblivion in there? ;)

Im 666

Underground 2 always brought Prescott to its knees for me. Throw that card in a Core system, and if it comes anywhere near my X1950 XTX, it'll still push 60+ at 1280x1024 with everything but AA maxed. This was part of the reason I abandoned Prescott

I know I'm a few days late to this one but I thought it was the perfect place to say - Phil, you've gotten me over my prejudice toward Pentium 4 builds after years of hating on them! I just completed my first s478 build - i865 chipset, 3ghz HT P4, Radeon 9600XT - it really is quite decent. And of course it was all "cheap as chips". :)

Good old days when Intel supported the socket (or the chipset) for more than 1 year :)

include Crysis in the test please for the next videos:

Most people can complain all they want, the P4 is able to play hundreds of great older 32-bit memorable games that are available on Steam & GOG very well, a true gamer is satisfied with a steady 60 fps or even 30 fps if the fps is locked on certain older games, I water cool the same P4 Cpu & it is fantastic , no bs, games installed usually have no startup issues, Awsome!

should try a pentium-d before the core2 Phil, it was the stepping stone after all between p4 and core 2 & doom etc should use the extra core

Great stuff, real collectors items. I would like to collect those, but, lack of space and use for them and no motherboard that supports P4 anymore. Got a few S775 boards, but they won't except P4's (well, except 1, but not going to use that system for a P4 :P). The 3,8Ghz model, and stuff like those Radeons are quite hard to come by these days. I checked the website you mentioned a few times, but all the fun (collectors) models are always out of stock (guess you beat us to it :P ). But realy great stuff to toy around with, I can enjoy these old hardware parts a lot more than most modern stuff. Old stuff wasn't always fast or efficient, but... it least they were fun.

Wow, in 2005 Intel hit 3.8 GHz, and now in 2018 the top AMD hits 4.2 GHz!

I remember seeing an old tomshardware video where they used liquid nitrogen to overclock a P4 to 5ghz