Was pentium 4 an over engineered CPU?

[RJARRRPCGP]

NetBurst architecture had long pipelines and tried to make up for it with high clock speeds

Think of Pentium 4s as engines with long/high cams!

 

[rockit00]

This thread brings back fond memories of my first desktop PC ( Medion MD-1704 ) and my first motherboard for my first build. The Medion MD-1704 desktop was built by a German company and was sold at ALDI supermarket stores back in early 2000's. I got mine at Best Buy back in 2003. I installed a Radeon 7000 something GPU as my first upgrade to the onboard graphics. This allowed me to play some of the Demo DVD discs that they used to include with PC Magazines back then...( Homeworld 2, Elite Dangerous, etc. ). I read a lot of the PC magazines of the day and would drool over the tech that I couldn't quite afford at the time. My first attempt at a build was with an MSI 865PE Neo 2 FIS2R, ( pictured in this thread ) a Cooler Master TAC-T01-HP5 Aluminum chassis and an MGE Vortec 500W PSU. I believe I used a P4 3.2GHz Northwood in it. The MSI 875P/865PE would allow you to overclock the Northwood using (PAT) to get around the limitations that Intel imposed on chipsets back then! I believe ASUS, Abit, and others used similar acronyms to get around Intel limitations at the time ie. D.O.T., MAT, etc. Those were the days.