Which Processor?

[HRR Raven]

P4 all the way, solid, well-priced. Anyway, Athlon chips aren't as cracked up as they used to be, especially if you're not OC'ing.

[Saint]

Originally posted by Dio
Athalon is great, it's better than both the P4 and the Athlon.

That was the first thing I noticed when I read this thread

[OneManArmy]

Athlons are wonderful for gaming, there is simply no need to spend the extra money on a p4 to get the same end results. for a mobo I'd go with the nforce2's like everyone has said outstanding boards.

on a quick side note DO NOT let 8x AGP sway your decision in any way. It doen't Improve anything over 4x. The only difference you will see is maybe 100 more points in 3dmark02, and that doesn't amount to diddly. There is no fps increase (well maybe 1 or 2 ) no performance increase at all.

[Hamma]

I prefer intel, but PSU is powered by AMD

[EineBeBoP]

ok, everyone thanks for all your help! Wish the poll were a bit more conclusive, but whatcha gunna do?

I'm prolly going with the AMD, But thanks anyways to all you P4 fans.


ThAnks!


--Eine

[Hamma]

h8

[powdahound]

You will be very happy with it. Good choice!

[MrVulcan]

Well I have been privileged to be able to do extensive testing on both AMD and Pent processors, and the basic results were:

Performance of AMD:
Appeared like a tangent plot, becoming very fast at small programs, but failing to do multi level programs, and more heavy programs well

Performance of P4:
Appeared like a sin plot, remaining very stable in time to execute programs, and tasks, took longer time to do light end programs such as word, notepad, etc, but was able to process mass data faster

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The real reason for this is thus:
the AMD is based upon a 16 meg section read strip that takes 16 bits, analyses them and returns a value
The P4 is based around a 32 meg section read strip that takes 32 bits, analyses them and returns a value

This means that the AMD is able to process 1 set of small data (under 32) faster than P4, but P4 is able to process sections 32 and above faster, so that heavy programs will run faster with the P4, but small ones run faster with the AMDs


In the end, the P4 is a better processor from a general performance and stability standpoint (anyone that has done true hardcore testing of them knows this), but the question is, is the extra $ worth it?
I think that it is, but then again, it is a med % boost with a major $ boost

I will try and find the actual results of some of the tests that I ran, and post those for you guys, they include some very sweet graphs that show things very nicely

P.S.

A BTW: History of Pents and AMDs
IBM created the1st true processors, and had a division that broke off and stole tech to create the group that created the Pents, they had a group that broke off and stole tech and created a company that makes the AMDs, they had a group break off and create another processor in Korea, but it failed

So, IBM has the highest tech, P4 is a copy of it, AMD is a copy of a copy



*Have you guys seen the GOLD based IBM terabit processor box? Now that is sweet! Wish it was something I could buy

Requires a 1 gig processor.... well I have a terabyte processor will that work