Athlon 64 3400 vs Pentium 4 3.0?
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If it's for development, I'd go with the Athlon...and even if it isn't, I'd go Athlon anyway. Are these systems significantly cheaper than a Core 2 Duo system?
Stuart Dootson wrote:
Are these systems significantly cheaper than a Core 2 Duo system?
Yep, motherboard/cpu/memory packages are several hundred less. Since it is just temporary until next year's major upgrades, I plan to keep it as cheap as possible while still having a little punch.
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I wish they had a Visual Studio benchmark like compiling a big project. Although compilation might be affected by other components like hard disk access, which benchmark do you think will give a better idea about the performance of compilation?
Orhun Birsoy
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If it's for development, I'd go with the Athlon...and even if it isn't, I'd go Athlon anyway. Are these systems significantly cheaper than a Core 2 Duo system?
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Find it out yourslef:) http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html[^]
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Toms Hardware can be hard to read at times. They have lots of tests, but most seem to oppose each other. Most of the time, it is still a coin toss.. I figured if I asked here, there would be some developers that had experience with these chips, as development machines. Thanks for the link!
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Which type of system do you think would be the best bang? I am builind a termporary system that will last until second quarter of 2007 when I will upgrade to a new MS Vista system (probably a duo).
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For a cheap system, I'd go with an Athlon 64 3500+ and an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum MB. (These are the core of my system and are now about $215 cheaper than when I bought them 18 months ago.)
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I wish they had a Visual Studio benchmark like compiling a big project. Although compilation might be affected by other components like hard disk access, which benchmark do you think will give a better idea about the performance of compilation?
Orhun Birsoy
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Toms Hardware can be hard to read at times. They have lots of tests, but most seem to oppose each other. Most of the time, it is still a coin toss.. I figured if I asked here, there would be some developers that had experience with these chips, as development machines. Thanks for the link!
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Rocky Moore wrote:
I figured if I asked here, there would be some developers that had experience with these chips, as development machines.
Rocky - I've had said experience - I've found an Athlon64 3400+ to take around 2/3 the time to build (C++) projects that a Pentium 4 3GHz does. These timings were repeatable, so I would definitely recommend the Athlon.
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Rocky Moore wrote:
I figured if I asked here, there would be some developers that had experience with these chips, as development machines.
Rocky - I've had said experience - I've found an Athlon64 3400+ to take around 2/3 the time to build (C++) projects that a Pentium 4 3GHz does. These timings were repeatable, so I would definitely recommend the Athlon.
Thanks!
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Rocky Moore wrote:
I figured if I asked here, there would be some developers that had experience with these chips, as development machines.
Rocky - I've had said experience - I've found an Athlon64 3400+ to take around 2/3 the time to build (C++) projects that a Pentium 4 3GHz does. These timings were repeatable, so I would definitely recommend the Athlon.
I have the same experience as Stuart and I would like to add the the Athlon64 will also do this consuming 1/2 to 2/3 of the power of the Pentium4 3Ghz.
John
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Which type of system do you think would be the best bang? I am builind a termporary system that will last until second quarter of 2007 when I will upgrade to a new MS Vista system (probably a duo).
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I routinely use three "legacy" systems: an Athlon XP 2500 (1GB RAM), a P4/3GHz (1GB RAM) and a P4M/2GHz notebook (1.25GB RAM). Of them, the P4 desktop is by far the slowest. It's no contest - go for the Athlon.
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