Computers Intel's P4 with HT or AMD K8 XP?

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Which CPU will power you're next BOX?

  1. Intel's Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading

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    20.0%

  2. AMD's

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    80.0%
  1. SaberJ2X

    SaberJ2X Moderator
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    just a post which Technology tickles you're fancy
     
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    SaberJ2X, Nov 20, 2002
  2. Izzy

    Izzy moo. moo. moo!
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    P4 tickles my performance, AMD tickles my wallet. That's just the truth.
     
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    Izzy, Nov 20, 2002
  3. Kaneda_345

    Kaneda_345 The Star Stealing Boy

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    Intel P4 for me.I heard it performs very well,and anything is better than the Intel Celeron processor I have now...:sweat2:
     
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    Kaneda_345, Nov 20, 2002
  4. Nephilim_X

    Nephilim_X New Member

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    Well P4s have more speed, but AMD is reportedly much more *efficient*...

    It all comes down to compatibility, really.

    And so far I've stuck with Intel (because I dont even have a choice to begin with), so I don't know how compatible AMDs are...
     
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    Nephilim_X, Nov 20, 2002
  5. El Marco

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    I'd go for the AMD but they have an awful habbit of giving the speeds compared to pentiums and not the actually speeds or the speed of the chip when overclocked. But I suppose that is there to make the common man understand anything about chips.

    Farmer Joe: OOh sure isn't that Ay Em Dee as good as the ol penteeum
     
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    El Marco, Nov 20, 2002
  6. c0ke

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    I have to go with AMDs, Ya it's true that Pentium 4 have greater clock speeds than the AMDs (They're already at 3.0ghz, and by the time you read this they might have 3.1ghz or 3.2 or 3.3 or more) but they practically give the same performance, actually I believe AMD was better than the Intel chips

    Plus the Intel Chips cost more than the AMD chips and do we seriously need 3.0ghz now? I mean most program I look at only recommand up to 1.0ghz (Please don't include Doom III, that is only in Alpha stage) and the average person I know usually buys a new computer after three years after purchasing one.

    Of course to an average consumer who knows didly squat about computers (My entire family excluding my brother) may go for the bigger and badder ****.
     
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    c0ke, Nov 21, 2002
  7. SaberJ2X

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    I've have to say AMD's K8 frighten the **** out of intel...
    on the other hand the pentium 4 had Hyper-threading since they were 2.2Ghz but intel had it disabled for some stupid and idiot something.

    anyway...

    i'd never liked the Rambus thing... that.... DRDRAM fiasco.
    sure... it had 800Mhz frequency but onli 16-BIT

    I've always loved DDR, especially now that new motherboards support Dual-Channel DDR configurations

    example:
    dual-channel RAMBUS PC800: 3.2GB per SEC
    dual-channel DDR 266: 4.3GB per SEC

    and imagine right now DDR memory is at DDR400 spec...
    so that means 6.4GB per SEC of bandwidth in a Dual-Channel configuration

    anyway that's only memory info:

    Is the addicional frequency useful?

    Yes and No...

    Yes if you work for example, making calculation intensive apps.
    example: an Calculator app (those that use decimals points of 512 places)

    No for the rest...
    Optimizations are the word of the day... SSE SSE2 MMX MMX+ 3DNOW 3DNOW2

    AMD is replacing brute force for some more intuative way of incresing speed, and i love it...

    Actually the P4 with HT enabled isn't that fast...
    is BARELY faster than a Athlon XP 2700+ with a 333FSB

    I'll post another when i remember some more...
    (girl-friend log-in) ;)
     
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    SaberJ2X, Nov 21, 2002
  8. SaberJ2X

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    By THE WAY AMD ARE JUST AS COMPATIBLE AS P4s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    SaberJ2X, Nov 21, 2002
  9. Kinryuu

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    Time and benchmarking will tell, but I think P4 hyperthreading is just hype. And like Flava Flav used to say, "Don't believe the hype!"

    The whole purpose of hyperthreading is to basically split the processor resources and process two threads at once. Now, either this is going to be legit and it'll be like have multiple processors in one package, or it's going to be ghey and it's just going to mean that even though it's processing two threads simulatneously, it's just going to take twice as long.

    If I want hyperthreading, I'll get a dual processor board and slap in a couple AMD MP's.
     
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    Kinryuu, Nov 22, 2002

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