Does anyone still use a Pentium 4?

Yeah. Most people who can't afford to buy a new computer every 3 years do. I've seen the computers at the teller's windows at my bank. I recognized the model, and it's a P4. The problem is that P4's days are numbered: Windows 7 was the last operating system that Microsoft made that will work on a 32 bit CPU (technically, it was Windows Server 2008 R1, but for the lay-person, Windows 7). All future Microsoft operating systems will be 64 bit.

Not normally, but I have my 2002 Dell Dimension 4500 still up & running, I do most of my word processing and downloading on that. Its a really old Pentium 4, Prescott, no HT, 2ghz. I switched over to my current computer in mid-2009, so I used that computer for as long as possible. When I built my current PC I got an i7. there was no i5 or i3, and AMD was lagging behind Intel. I bought an i7 920, a cheap motherboard, the cheapest one was $250 (MSI X58 Platinum) and it sucks (very hi board temps, need user to put a fan on it to cool it down) . I wish i spent $20 more and bought the ASUS, it probably alot better than my mobo.

More about my P4 its really obsolete. I tried upgrading it, but after 2004 it became apparent upgrades wouldn't be worth its value and wouldn't significantly improve system performance. The factory specs are: 250W psu, socket 478 cpu, pc 2100 ram (max 1GB- 2x512mb sticks), and agp 4x video card. I couldn't do much with those limitations, the ram stayed at 512 mb from the day i bought it to right now. to buy 2-512 mb sticks would cost around $70, and wouldn't be worth $2 in increase of performance.

I upgraded the video card in 2006, to a nvidia FX5500 256 mb, it runs at 1/2 speed- AGP4x, allowed me to play Half Life 2 at round 25 fps. that was with 35% overclock. Surprisingly it wasn't that much of an upgrade over the factory nVidia MX420 which i had running at a 90% OC. the newer gpu didn't show much improvement until it got down to workstation use. Gaming wise I got a 6-10Fps increase.

eventually around 2007 it became apparent I must get a new PC, I wasn't able to do my school work on it. I knew that was coming, when I couldn't open autocad files that I worked on at school at home because the RAM would completely fill up and the page file would fill up. I didn't even get to 3d design at that time. late 2008/early 2009 I researched and bought parts for a new computer.

Funny thing, my old PC is more reliable than my new PC. most of hte parts on the PC are pushing 8 years old, nothing breaks and there are few system problems. my new PC on the other hand, experiences issues much too frequently to be normal. (lesson learned- don't cut corners when building a hi end PC)

I use 2.0 gyg, 2 gygs ram Compaq/ hp tower with an ASUS mobo in it. It's my primary computer. I have a dual core lightning victim in the back room that was a Vista puter till I upgraded it to XP.

On my Visual Studio desk, there are 3 P-4 puters sitting side by side. I use them for writing programs, or designing websites. My lappy is also P-4. Thinking about getting one of those mini lappies, I don't have one in the bathroom yet...

Your not that far behind the world with a P-4. From what I read a couple of weeks ago, over 50% of the world still runs XP on P-4 technology! The gamers may have us in speed, but we way outnumber 'em!!

PS;

Both of my recording studio computers are P-4 (4 gyg RAM) also...

Hi N

yes loads of people still use processors back as far as the Original P1.

and guess what for the same reason you are still using it processor speed as they program old commercial PMR radios with them it is easier at a lower processor speed as some of the eeproms just will not work above a certain speed when loading.

in fact i recently saw a program still using the BBC B for teaching programming basic and fortran and cobol

I still see lots of P4s and P3s out there - especially in businesses. Even seen a celeron 400 recently with windows 95 on it......

I use a P4 HP Laptop running linux peppermint-ice, runs like clockwork.

I use P4 for my Linux web servers and separate firewall boxes. They have lots of uses still...

I am typing this answer from P4 powered pc. I use it for regular use, like entertainment, web surfing, running common softwares. mobile and camera interface. works fine.

No, but my friend was testing one out on his pc to see how fast it would run lol. I use a Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66 GHz

Yes, I use a Pentium-4 2.4GHz with a Radeon HD 3450 256MB AGP card and 1TB hard drive as an HTPC/PVR. I also use an old Celeron-D for my home LAN fileserver.