Where on earth can I buy 3.00GHz Northwood?

[drucer]

I'm in the process of building a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) - a PC that is ment for music making. It will be running Ubuntu Linux.

I've managed to find and buy an excellent motherboard for this PC (this motherboard is good, because it doesn't have any low quality consumer audio devices integrated):
http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bz/

It just never occured to me that Intel Northwood processors are hard/impossible to find now!? If anyone of you knows a place where I could buy a 3.00GHz Intel Pentium 4 Northwood processor (Socket 478, FSB800) I'd be very grateful. I've searched with Google, but no luck.

This motherboard's BIOS revision is 05, so it does not support Pentium 4 Prescott processors. Only Northwood will do and speeds up to 3.00 GHz.

[Stealth]

Zipzoomfly.com is a really nice place I've bought from. Free shipping is what makes me double check with them before buying something from Newegg. UNforunately I can't find a 3 Ghz (I think the Northwoods exact speed was 3.06) BUT if you don't mind doing a small overclock (and I've read Northwoods were good with that) you can get this 2.66 Ghz Northwood (http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80652) at 3. They also have 2.26 and 2.53 speeds availabe. Here's the Intel Processors page (http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductList.jsp?ThirdCategoryCode=010408)...

[WildTangent]

i think he might have meant 3.06. anyway, the store i work at might have one, but we dont sell over the internet as far as i know, so thats not much help to you :P

-Wild

[drucer]

Hey thank you very much! I'll check it out! 2.66GHz is fast enough to handle many tracks of audio.

Funny thing is - http://www.zipzoomfly.com seems to be down at the moment ;-) Why is it always like this - when you really need something, you have to bang your head against the wall several times until you get what you want? :smile:

[drizek]

http://computers.search.ebay.com/northwood_Desktop-PC-Components_W0QQcatrefZC12QQfromZR8QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1 QQsacatZ3667