Pentium 4 probably isn't the best CPU for gaming, but it is one of the oldest CPUs that can run Windows 10 due to the available instruction sets. It's still good enough for light office work, and you could probably browse the Internet on it if you only keep one tab open... used to be the Internet was a "light" thing, but nowadays modern web pages have so much bloated JS code thanks to the messy frameworks they use that they can be more demanding than 3D games in some ways.

Never in my life did I think I would see a Pentium 4 paired with a 3080

My 1st PC had a 2.4ghz Pentium 4, played hundreds of hrs of Runescape with it. Good times... Was also the 1st PC I tinkered with by upgrading the 256mb ram with a 512mb stick.

Funny video but Netburst absolutely did not "pave the way" for Core 2 and on, it was so horrible they had to go back to the Pentium 3 with Pentium M and then proceed from there. Netburst was a dead end, relying on the promise of a process technology which was not remotely possible at the time (they really thought 10 GHz was gonna happen)

I remember upgrading from a celeron to a used P4 with HT and the performance boost at the time was insane. And then again when I went for another used core 2 duo. I remember there was some kind of bios wonkyness and the P4 ran so hot I had to pack the case with frozen peas from my mums freezer in order to boot, install Windows and then update the bios.

I had a pentium 661 overclocked to 5ghz stable on diy liquid cooling setup with a fridge evaporator as radiator, swap cooler pump & a water block made out of pure junk. On a g41 motherboard with ddr3 1033mhz. It was fast & a room heater. I later replaced the cpu with q6600 & ran that at 4.3ghz!.

your effort is highly appreciated. our family PC was on a Pentium 4 until 2012, and the uplift going to an i7-2600 felt like cheating

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always nice to see just how far hardware has come.. reminds me of my 1ghz pentium 3 laptop, a beast as long as you run period appropriate games.

Next, please do an AMD Athlon XP, 64, and X2. That would be a very interesting comparison.

I know this won’t make a big difference, but I’d be interested to see this CPU running Windows 7 or Windows 10 with disabled Spectre and Meltdown patches, along with an AMD GPU. Anyways, it’s nice to see that a chip this old can run some modern apps.

Good video. You got a golden sample P4 651 chip. The limit for most of them was around 4.25ghz.

Great vid, thanks for sharing. I owned a Prescott 2.8 ghz. Damn good and stable cpu ;)

i love those Maximus boards! Maybe if you increased the PLL, NB and (i think) Termination Voltage, you may be able to get it closer to 5 GHz. not guraranteed, but it did help on my Maximus II Formula board.

Awesome seeing this, I bought a Pentium 4 651 for £7 on eBay a few weeks ago, and tried overclocking it too! I managed 4.42GHz at 1.36v on a cheap GA-P35-DS3. I couldn't get any more out of it. I removed an E6750 from the board to install the Pentium 4! Lol

I was planning on upgrading the RAM and graphics on my pentium 4 system to see how it would perform today. I'm glad that I watched this video and didn’t try upgrading it. Thank you for the amazing and extensive analysis.

You Sir are a very patient man. My first was P4 was the socket 478 3.0ghz Nothwood (800 fsb) ATI 9600XT, 1 gig of ram. I'm a little hazy on the Intel chipset.. But was Intel's best Motherboard at the time? (P series 965?) Saw the working system years later to upgrade it with 4 gigs of ram and a Windows 7 to 10 upgrade. (Still running as far as I know?) Thank you for putting this comparison performance review together.. (I enjoyed it) Cheers!

Used to have socket 775 back in 2009, changed few CPUs...Core2Quad at the end. ;-)

You say it paved the way for the Core architecture but it's actually the opposite. The Core architecture was based around the Dothan mobile architecture which was linked heavily to the older style P6 Architecture that Pentium 3's were based on. Core had a lot more in common with P6 than Netburst.

My first P4 was 1.6GHz Willamette with 256MB of SDRAM, 2001 made Compaq branded. Got it at work in 2005, after Celeron 600 it was big deal. Used it until late 2007 when I received 2.4 GHz Northwood with 512MB DDR1 memory. It was noticeably faster but not than much. In early 2008 I received Core 2 Duo E4500 as replacement, and that was big step ahead. In early 2005 one of my customers bought 3 GHz S775 Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM. It was quite fast machine until 2008, and started feel slow in 2010. My parents used s478 P4 3.2 with 2GB of RAM until late 2012 - it was mainly OK for offline videos and textual web browsing but struggled to play online videos in the end. So my general conclusion is, P4s were adequate CPUs for their time. Fully upgraded 2.8+ GHz Pentium 4 with 2+ GB of RAM could be used as gaming machine until 2008 and was adequate for most office tasks until 2013. Comparing to Pentium 3 (which was limited to 0.5-1GB of slow SDRAM and had no SATA ports) it aged much better.

I still use a Pentium 4 HT (3.0GHz) with 2x 512MB (400MHz) once per week for 1 hour. I use it as backup server, since June 2019. It is based on the remains of a 2003 HP d530 SFF and I have added 2x IDE 3.5" (250 + 320GB) and 2x SATA 2.5" (320 + 320GB) in total 1.21TB. It is now inside an old Compaq Evo Tower with a Win 98SE activation sticker. The transfer speed for the backup is ~30MB/s (240Mbps of 1Gbps) limited by one CPU thread running above 90%. The backup takes ~1 hour. This 21 years OLD PC runs a 3 month NEW OS; FreeBSD 14.0 on OpenZFS 2.2.0, all storage is lz4 compressed (ratio ~1.8). Note that sender and receiver are lz compressed, so no re-compression is needed. The compressed records are transferred and stored as-is.

Pentium 4 and XP for the entire duration of XP's lifespan from 2001 to 2014. First was 1.6 willamette dell system, then a 3.0 MSI prescott. Both systems did web browsing and video editing. I was cash strapped at the time as I had things to save up for so I ended up recycling components from the dell into the MSI system. When that was put out to pasture in 2014, the hard drive, video card, and sound card were all 12 years old and still somehow fully functional.

I was still using a Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz (PGA478 Prescott) in my main PC until late 2012. Sadly I was stuck with an integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2 which was just barely able to ran the games I played. Years later I moved the CPU to a different motherboard with an AGP slot and with a decent card (in this case Radeon 9800 Pro) it can run the games I used to play really well

My first PC that I built myself and wasn’t a prebuilt bought by my parents used a Pentium 4 while my friend went with Athlon XP. I had a 2.8ghz P4B overclocked to 3.25ghz. It felt very fast at the time. It was single core and no HT as Hyper Threading came later. However it got severely beaten by the Athlon 64 that came out later.

I'm amazed that this was the best Pentium 4! Insanely slow. I can't believe I used this stuff. I honestly thought it would have been faster as it seemed fast at the time.

OMG. I always wondered what it would be like to try. I have several of these systems on hand. But, if the benchmark is going to take an hour, it may not be worth it LOL.

i have this in my "retro " PC runing win XP :) is working like a charm :) feeding my nostalgia for older games :) and the fact that back in 2006 i was runing on an AMD Sempron 3000+ single core 1.8GHz and dreaming on this pentium cip ..

Had a Medion MD8386 (P4 640), no overclocking, but I did use a tool called CPU RMclock to make the EIST more aggressive in moving up, as I found that it was too happy to sit at 2.8GHZ without boosting if only 1 thread was loaded.... I think Windows XP did fix it later, so that single thread loading would kick it to the full 3.2GHz

Sure do own one! I use it for LAN Parties to this day! Popped a SSD in it.

I had 3 P4 systems back then. A 1,5 Ghz one, a 1,9Ghz one and a 3,00 Ghz with 800Mhz FSB paired with a ATI Radeon 9800 pro and 1GB Corsair Twinx DDR 400 CL 2, the RAM-Kit alone was around 320 €

I had a SKT478 P4. I upgraded from a Celeron to a Celeron D to a P4 at 3.0GHz 800FSB and H/T. It was paired with an MSI 7600GS (AGP 8X) on an ASUS with a SiS chipset.

Good video! I have a Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz (socket 478) with Asus P4P800 motherboard, 2 Gb DDR400 and Radeon HD4650 AGP graphic card. Operating system is Windows 8.1.This PC is still quite usable for basic tasks, but it's slow and really hot! On KZfaq it is capable of playing videos with a resolution up to 480p in full screen.

P-IV, 775 motherboard with AGP, great retro gaming platform.

Driver overhead and modern Windows really crippled that poor thing.

Im old enough, to have been lucky enough to experience windows 95 and 98 but a Pentium 4 on an old Compaq Deskpro, and later EVO with windows XP fueled my childhood. So grateful to have grown alongside the tech instead of right into it.

Look at that motherboard. I miss that old school look so much..

I had a P4 HT 540 Prescott s775 @ 3.2ghz a few years back after being with AthlonXP, then next had a core2quad q6600 2.4ghz(cant remember if used same mobo or a newer one!). Ive now in the last few months purchased a Cedarmill P4 641, and also PentiumD Presler 925 @ 3ghz and 945 @ 3.4ghz (both with dual Cedarmill dies), plus bought again another core2quad q6600😂. Im sure i have a socket 775 system somewhere thats due an upgrade! Pc's used over the years - P3-500, p3-700(free upgrade), p3-933(slocket converter), AMD Athlon thunderbird(poss 1.4ghz), AMD AthlonXP(poss 2800), p4-540(3.2ghz), core2quad q6600(2.4ghz), and now i7-950(3.06ghz tri-channel ram). I know im lagging behind a bit! Lol

Whats more convenient to overclock? 651 D0 stepping or 661 C1 stepping? Thanks

wonder what ab extreme edition with 4 threads would do

I have all Pentium 4 generations here, starting with a Willamette system at 1.8 GHz with 423, two PCs with 478 Northwoods with 533 and 800 MHz HT CPUs as well as a Dell PC with 775 Pentium 4 560.

The logo is still one of the GOATs

I used the p4 untill 2011. (HT630) Then I found a pc on the street that people threw away, I fixex it and then I had a pentium e2200. Its mhz was way lower (2000 or 2200 mhz) but it was way faster. Later I upgraded to a i7 2600k. Just amazing how fast that was in that time.. Later a i7 4790k. Then ryzen 1600, 3600, now on a 7700 ryzen. Fun fact: In 2012 I played leuage of legens on a pentium 4 (3.3 gb ram) and the ATI 9800xt. it had a steady 40 fps on the lowest settings. Quite inpressed.

i have several p4s. one is a compaq laptop and the other 2 are desktop. 1 desktop is in use but just for retro stuff.

I have a P4HT 640 in storage atm with 2GB of ddr 2-667, g31 mobo, and a 7200gs. When I pulled it out to test it the PSU was sadly busted. I may have to resort to a "Fire Hazard" PSU that comes free with cheap cases for the 5v old ATX spec... 😅😅😅

Just thought of something. Do you have a radeon handy to test? any radeon. it should perform a LOT better with a radeon than a geforce because geforce has a huge driver overhead that kills slow processors.

fun loved my new P4 in 2001 best match 9700pro! omg was nice.. before that ahtlon 650 with voodoo3 :D. now even my father passed away pff im not that old, brutal life

an intresting video would b pentium ee with 2/4 cores vs an athlon x2 vs core2duo , i know the athlon and core2duo both beat the pentium back in the day when everything scaled 1 or 2 threads but them days is over ,

I would be curious, how it performs honkai star rail on that processor, as that game isnt that cpu intensive like everything other modern games on the planet with the exception of some indie games! Havent found a benchmark so i would suggest to test that game out, should be really suprising results! Or some ps1 emulation. i dont mind because i love benchmark

I think Pentium4 should still be able to do minor stuff like web browsing just fine, in fact couple of years ago i tested a 1GHZ Pentium3 and 512MB of RAM with both Win98 and XP, and i was able to load regular pages just fine with a Browser called K-Meleon, but KZfaq prooved far too much to handle, since videos would lag a lot, but this could had been just of the old GeForce 5200FX choking with KZfaq videos.

Older brothers first gaming pc was a pentium 4 i think at 3.4 ghz. Might have been a 600 series pentium 4, think it was 2 mb cache at least. Initially 1.0 gb ram & a ati x1650 pro pci-e 512 mb. Did play the pirated counter strike source really well at the time in 1600x1200 at 85 hz for lil 12 year old me. Then later i think 1.5 gb or 2 gb before i got it around the end of 2007. Lightning strike while we were on vacation killed the motherboard early 2008 (router still connected which also died.) So i had no pc for a bit. Then my mom decided too get rid of her desktop pc early 2009 as she went for a laptop instead too do things on. Pentium dualcore e2160 at 1.6 ghz, 2 gb ddr2 ram, 500 gb sata hdd which I'm still using today actually. And initially that pc had a weak 128 mb nvidia 7300 gs, but my older brother had a 8500 gt sitting around after upgrading too a hd 5750 at the time so i got that, then the 8500 gt died like 6 months later & a used hd 3650 512 mb found it's way to me so i got that too use still. And If i had known about bsel tape mod overclocking, that cpu would have been running at 2.1 ghz for sure in that pc as soon as possible which would have helped a lot at the time. Then around August 2010 i went for building my own pc. With an Athlon II x3 445, gigabyte 870a ud3 rev 2.1, & a single 2 gb ram stick at 1333 mhz & the HD 3650 moved over from that old pc. Already a huge lift in performance on that hd 3650 still, then i got another 2 gb stick too get 4 gb ram & now some newer stuff ran great. Then came the Sapphire hd 5770 lite 1 gb around november or september 2010 which i still have sitting around. It was less noisy then the hd 3650 was & had WAY more rendering power, like day & night difference. Specially for the still in use CRT at 1600x1200. The original fan on that card still is so quiet, no bad bearing noise or anything either despite it's age at this point. And it was used in my dads pc after i upgraded the gpu too a hd 6870 for a few years so it has plenty of run time. The hd 6870 out of the box had a cooler with bad heatpipes, just air so the cooler trapped heat instead of cooling the card properly. So it was back too a noisy card which i wasn't very pleased with, like 2x 70mm fans screaming at like 3000 rpm with gpu temp at 97c was not fun. Like even with a closed door i could hear it in the kitchen in the 4 room apartment. Instead of sending the card back on an RMA. After less then a week since i bought it i took off the shroud & zip tied 2x 120 mm fractal design 1000 rpm fans too it that ran at 100% fan speed off the powersupply. Temps down at 87c but almost no noise. Had that card until January 2015 when i bought a r9 280 from Asus (Direct cu II TOP) Which lived for quite some time with a phenom II x6 1090t i picked up used 2 months after i bought the card march 2015, the phenom II x4 955 at 3.9 ghz had done well but i wanted some more oomph in cpu power so another 2 cores for like 50$ seemed like a good plan. Then with a locked I5 2500 non k around January 2017 too August 2020 when it gave up on me, card slowly bent too death due too my lazyness in putting together the card about 1.5 years before. As i forgot a bracket that goes length wise with the card and just went eh, it should be ok. Then in October 2020 after being on the old hd 5770 again i jumped at buying a gigabyte gtx 1660 super oc for 214 usd or 2335 sek, as an open box return which still ticks on in my pc with a ryzen 5600 since December 2022. (I'm glad i picked up the 1660 super when i did as prices never recovered, it's still another 3 - 400 sek for a 1660 super. And funnily enough the original fans started getting noisy bearings on the 1660 super so i did it again with a pair of 120mm fans zip tied too the card, it simply works great! This time a pair of Arctic Cooling P12 PST 120mm fans & a phobya vga to pwm adapter. (Yes the company is spelled that way) Picked the PST fans due too lazyness, i didn't want too bother soldering the splitter too have 2x pwm outlets or buy a pwm splitter & figured 1800 rpm should be more then enough oomph for cooling anyway.

I actually began to like Windows Vista when I went from a Pentium 4 631 to Core 2 Duo E8400 the P4 is painfully slow and the c2d can run Windows 10 quite well if you have an SSD and a decent graphics card.

How enable virtualisation in Intel Pentium 4

My friend used to have a P4 at 2.66GHz back in the day lol.

as someone who still owns a pentium 4 (though it's been in storage for the last few years), i can safely say that there is no pentium 4 that does anything more than the most basic of tasks. i think it would full load at idle on windows 11

Having a 3080 or something like that is a bad idea due to driver overhead.

I was trying to find the most advanced P4 (i think). It's the Pentium 4 HT 661 SL9KD (D0). ~65wTDP and 3.6GHz

I have one P IV HT 3.6 GHz, yes that is the stock clock, but the board have a Q8400 on it, I want to do some benchmarks

my mom used a pentium 4 dell desktop until about 2016 when she got a chrome book lol. i still remember staying up till midnight playing halo combat evolved and doom 95 on it

i got my first pc in 2006 and i had pentium 4 socket 775 , 512 ddr 2 @533 and 6600GT.

please do a video pitting this Pentium 4 vs the fastest power mac g5 system I want to see how they compared

Pentium 4 machines are good for retro builds Windows 98SE and running some older games on and software or have Windows 2000. I used a Pentium 4 up until around 2012 running Linux maxed out but then I upgraded to a dual core 2 duo then shortly after an i5.

Best thing to try is install gentoo, that way it will utilize all its power and take less space.

All they're good for is to make them electric warmers during Winter.

My e5700 did 4.5ghz on air cooling in cinebench 11.5 :) yours must have been a bad sample. I think certain stepping and batches are better than others.

Intel inside Mental outside 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

How much is it worth today?

you should get more performance from the rx 580 because the drivers sre much lighter on the cpu or a much older nvidia card that lighter drivers

just casually mentioning that you got it to 5 ghz threw me for a loop. a speed that modern cpus didnt reach stock until a few years ago on a cpu that old and weak is crazy

I finised HL 2 on this CPU + GeForce 210, not on max ofc, I reached 100fps stable.

How does it perform compared to a Raspberry Pi 5

Pentium 4 is my favourite chip, I spent my childhood playing Rome and Medieval Total War on it. Piece of history honestly.

Started RSC on a pentium 2, upgraded to a 4 for rs2 😢

I'm happy that Core 2 Duo is a much much much better XP machine anyways, and there's no reason to power one of these up. The only reason I could think of to have a P4 or older is if you have a sewing machine or cnc lathe or something weird plugged into it and you have to have XP, a parallel port, or something like that.

Some of these LGA775 pentium 4 could do 8ghz on Ln2

windows will definitely hold you back, use a really light weight linux distro instead and an AMD card for both FOS drivers that actually work and lower overhead.

I'm surprised it can even start the games wow

Would love to see the results of an Athlon64.

This cpu is final pentium 4.

just think that was the most efficient pentium 4 imagine how many watts the prescott pentium 4s pulled on a single core lol

Willamette has 1.9 and 2.0GHz versions too

I had it on 4.8 Ghz

I don't think I had a Pentium 4. Oldest CPU I had I think was a Pentium III & then moved on to an Intel Core 2 Quad.

For me 30 FPS is perfectly fine with me since I'm used to scratch which Is forced to run at 30 FPS without turbowarp

Please do amd athlon with rtx 4090

Only this is working emulation. Bato era, retrobat or mame system. Try😊

I had the 661 and in 2011 it was nearly unusable for streaming and watching movies without a good GPU to decode. It was trash by then. In 2023? This has got to be one funny video...

Pentium 4 was better for Windows 98 vs anything newer than 98 because using XP on a Pentium 4 was already horrible to deal with

Had this paired with mighty geforce 3 mwahahha

I had a pentium 4 and thought it was awesome until my friend showed me amd 64 which absolutly destroyed it in gaming. I quickly switched and stuck with AMD until the core 2 duo line up.

With this Intel pentium 4 651...and 8 gig or ram...you can open.... 20-30 internet pages for sure, then reboot, and They are cached, from this pts,after a reboot with all the pages, you just go on 6-7 pages at the same times, They others will not be activated, so 6-7 at the same shot, with one running a youtube video without any problem. On Internet this pentium 4 is not very bad. The pentium III is slow, and every Intels seen without SSE3....this last features change everything, Win 7 still a good Interface, maybe better than windows Xp pro for his administration of the Hyper-threading. The Hyperthreading possibility of the pentium 4 in test ...and around win xp, win vista, win 7, win 8.1 has to be done. A video just for this. It Could be good if microsoft had invented a test just for the study of the Hyperthreading in action/result.

Not how to say processing/processor

Have a sl96h 661

There is also no way for a P4 to play 1080p video. Your GPU is doing that heavy lifting.

I use a pentium 4 630 and i play games on stock speed in 1080p i play older games

Owned a Pentium D 2 x 3Ghz CPU. It was a hot mess, not helped by a motherboard plagued with gremlins until I had to give up entirely on the build. I think the happiest I ever was with a setup's performance over time, was my AMD FX-8350 system which way outlived it's time and aged incredibly gracefully. Next to that, my Core 2 Duo E4500 system did very very well for lifetime. I also have a 10 year old (as of October 2023) first gen XPS 15 with an i7-4770 CPU, which aged very well and 10 years later is still very snappy and performant. Time will tell how my current i7 8750H will do :) So far, so good!

RTX 3080 Serving as a bottleneck 😂

one would think a cool sounding named and highly advertised intel cpu would be a high end processor, but nope it was total junk.

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P4 only sold well because it had the name "Pentium" and it had the most gigahertz. Hot garbage - pun intended.

😂😅... Athlon 64 3200🧐