Athlon or P4

Lost User

Is there any site that gives an objective comparison/benchmarking of the two? Like a performance comparison of P4 2 GHz v/s Athlon XP 1.6 MHz. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers

Anders Molin

Try here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/index.html[^] - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

Christian Graus

Ive been an Athlon man for years, but after reading about the amount of heat they let off, I bought a P4. I doubt though that any article you find online will be objective. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

Megan Forbes

I believe that AMD get more out of their processors (apparently an 1800GHz XP = P4 2.4GHz) but that Intel allow some space to be clocked up slightly, OR to keep cool. I read earlier this week that the Athlon XP 2.8Ghz is being released, but the article suggested that if you buy it you should also invest in specialist cooling equipment X|

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Poolbeer

My girlfriend has got an AMD 1800+ and her system is always unstable. Whatever I do with it I can't get it stable.:(( I recently bought a P4 2.4/533, plugged the components in, installed XP and it runs sweet and stable.:omg: If you ask me buy a P4, it runs better and about those Ghz-es the CPUs are so damn fast that you won't even notice if it's a 1700 p4 or a 2400 p4. you'll only notice it when your doing Vids (like rippin' and editting). Greets, Martin If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.

SimonS

Megan Forbes wrote: invest in specialist cooling equipment I suppose leaving the chassis case off just won't cut it anymore, huh? :| I know that when graphics cards get hot the frame rates drop, so I wonder if the same thing will happen with CPU's. Cheers, Simon "VB.NET ... the STD of choice", me, internal company memo

Lost User

Look at what P4 vs. Athlon does to system performance for your money. By buying a 2GHz Athlon instead of a P4 a3 months ago I was able to spend a bit more on my motherboard and hard drive(s). Result - higher performance for the same budget. Use Western Digital drives with 8MB internal buffer instead of the usual 2MB, this speeds up disc I/O. If you REALLY want to boost application performance, go for RAID0 (parallel operation of two HDDs). In this case, an Abit AT7 motherboard has a Hgihpoint RAID controller which is far superior to the more common Promise controller. Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) PS the AT7 also has optical and coaxial digital audio outputs which go straight into my sound system :cool: Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?

Anna

When we were looking at upgrades from P3 boxes last year we evaluated the P4 and came to the conclusion that it was actually slower than P3 as a development machine! As a result (and after a lot of arm twisting!), we're now using 2GHz Dell Xeon boxes with SCSI disks and twin monitors. :) Anna :rose: "Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
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realJSOP

Well, there it is then. What motherboard? Did she upgrade to a name-brand power supply or is she trying to get by with a cheap 250W unit? Anyone that does it right has no problem with their Athlon as far as stability goes. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends

Joe Woodbury

I frequent Tom's Hardware, but be aware that he's anything but objective.

Poolbeer

The motherboard? It's an Asus A7V with a power-supply of 300 Watts. Hmmm I think I'll have to take a closer look at her computer. I Think I will buy meself a electron microscope...:laugh: thanks. If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.

Poolbeer

I use my PC a lot for development. As I recently bought some new components I noticed that using a P4 is faster for me. The old processor was a P3 733/133, so to me it makes a big difference... :wtf: I think I will try a heavy benchmark or something to test the difference. Does anyone have a compiler benchmark util???? Martin If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.