NCD ThinSTAR 400 - P MMX 166 MHz

Advantages: Best on the market at present?
Disadvantages: Could cost you an arm and a leg.

...For over five years the Intel Pentium has been the most successful processor on the market, and now they have gone one better with the release of the P4. It features brand-new NetBurst Micro-technology enabling it to perform up to 30% better than the previous P3. Here are the specifications.. ~ 400 MHz Front Side Bus of 128 bit width ~ Execution Trace Cache ~ 20 KB L1 cache and 256 KB L2 ~ The ALU (Arithmetical Logic Unit) runs at twice the clock speed ~ A new socket for simple motherboard design ~ Clock frequencies from 1500 MHz ~ 20 stages pipeline ~ SSE2 and 128 bit MMX ~ 42 millions of transistors ~ A new 423 pins socket design ~ Dual Rambus memory channel with i850 chipset ~ Only single processor mode available Intel uses the term NetBurst to describe some features in the Pentium 4: ~ Advanced Dynamic Execution, meaning... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to install,Lifetime guarantee and support,damn fast processor
Disadvantages: Not suitable for beginners

...I had an old Pentium 100mhz CPU computer, which I inherited,and it seemed a tad slow (for good reason!).I had seen this upgrade available at various mail-order firms and saw that it was available for socket 7 motherboards,at Pentium 75mhz upwards. The upgrade itself is a AMD-K62 400mhz processor with heat sink and fan.It has instruction sheets and the necessary disks to alter your BIOS and to benchmark both your old and new processor speeds. I found it relatively easy to install,after following the instructions.Considering I had no motherboard manual,I was relatively pleased with the ease of installation.It has a lifetime guarantee and lifetime phone technical help. I had to phone the technical support once, they were very helpful and useful,and resolved my problem quickly. If you want your old pentium to be up to 400% faster... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, Good power:cost ratio
Disadvantages: Not HighEnd

...When you're evaluating this product please don't forget that it's probably only costing you £15/£20 pounds and it IS a budget processor. There is speed to be had in this processor but it's NOT 333 Mhz of speed. It's a cleverly multiplied low-end processor which has a very high effective speed. The best situation for this chip is where you could normally only fit a P166 Mhz chip. Older machines. Once excellent place for this chip is in network servers. Laugh all you will but .... You can pick-up a rack-mountable Compaq Proliant server which support 4 processors (P166) for about £250. Buy four of these and fit them and you've got an awesome little server for under £350. Add extra memory and a good HD system and you've got a VERY capabale multi-function server capable of sevicing over 1000 users on a LAN. I know this as I've done... Read review

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