The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

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  1. theonejrs

    theonejrs Senior member

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    Estuansis,
    Just google the number off of the CPU. That should get you that information.

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    Well it has 512K cache so I can only assume it's a Northwood. If I really cared enough I'd just use CPU Z.
     
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    Which socket is it? 478 or 775? If it's a zIF socket, it's 478!

    Russ

    EDIT: According to the manual your Inspiron 5100 comes with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4. The next model of the series, the 5150 has a Mobile P4. The only Celeron D that I can think of that has a Northwood core is the Celeron D128, and it only has 128MB of L2 cache. The 512MB L2 only comes in a Prescott! I looked myself and it's socket 478.

    Here's the manual for it! Specs are on page 114.
    http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins5100/en/i5100-om.pdf

    Russ
     
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    they've been going on about video transcoding off GPUs for ages, and I've still yet to see it properly utilised in practice...
     
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    What he said and on top of that I'm not spending $300+ USD to get my computer a little bit faster.. of course the "people" that do it for a "living" might think twice about it... :p Especially those crazy enough to encode Blu-Ray stuff!! ;)
     
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    Folding isn't really related to video transcoding though. GPU acceleration is used for a few things, but video transcodes seem to have taken forever to implement.
     
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    Video transcoding can easily be done through Catalyst Control Centre but only if your using 32-bit which is........................................................ unfair "/
     
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    Well I already knew for sure it was 478 as I've had it apart to clean it and re-apply thermal paste. Mine indeed comes stock with a 2.4GHz Northwood Pentium 4 with 512K L2. The 5100 had overheating issues due to dust buildup and its desktop chip. Though with proper care this is really a non-issue. The 5150 largely fixed this problem with reworked cooling and a mobile chip but I doubt you could still call it a "cool" running laptop. The Northwood Celeron had no D designation and had 128K L2. The Prescott Celeron D had 256K L2, was for both 478 and 775 and was almost twice as fast per clock as the Northwood chip. The last of the Celeron Ds was actually an LGA775 only Cedar Mill chip and that was the one with 512K. It actually managed to somewhat match a Northwood P4 in performance.

    Keep in mind the Pentium 4s are an entirely different beast and the differences go deeper than just cache. They are based on the same tech but there are a few features absent on the Celerons. Though all of the LGA775 Celeron Ds do support 64-bit.
     
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    WTF AD is slightly wider then yesterday my "/ is no longer on a line all on it's own...

    EDIT: and now it is again hmmmmmmmmmmm
     
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    LOL
    that depends on the size of the window silly :p
     
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    Yeah but it was the same fullscreen window at the same res and the same EVERYTHING! Although come to think of it I did update to CCC 9.9 "/
     
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    Interesting, haven't changed the font size by accident have you?
     
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    No and if you saw my edit it's now gone back! It's some sort of conspiracy doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
     
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    I'm not using the same screen resolution as you - all of your post fits on one line.
     
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    hmmmm there's something not quite right with Chrome here (possibly just the dev version)...

    I refresh and about 2 in 5 times it's 1 line... Also it varies by browser:
    1 line; Firefox 3.5.2/Namoroka 3.6, Opera 10 Beta 2, Safari 4.0.2.
    2 lines; IE 32/64-bit

    [​IMG]
     
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