P4 or AMD Athlon?

[Rob P]

Whats the different then?

AM starting to look at getting a new system, is their much to choose between the two?

How do the speeds compare?
i.e is a P4 2.6GHz comparable to AMD Athlon 2.6GHz?

Any advice appriciated

BTW, anyone dealt with www.envizage.com ? I have been recommended them by a mate....

[stevieb]

Look through the previous threads

"PROCESSORS" was discued quite a bit

Steve

[Rob P]

Cheers, will do

[pbrettle]

AMD fan here - never been a fan or Intel processors as the manipulation of the market is SO obvious. The latest generation of P4's are good and I would recommend them for pure performance. But for cost effective use (contrary to what I just said on a different thread - where money wasnt too much of an option) the most cost effective processor is an AMD.

You cant compare clock speeds - try a google search also - you will see that the AMD chips are faster for a lower clock speed. Though do be warned that this is utterly dependant on what task you are using it for. However, an AMD chip of comparable performance to a P4 will be cheaper, cooler and easier to overclock....

P.S. Hyperthreading is a bit of a non-starter for games and stuff - only really works in certain areas and my AMD Duron system is the same perfomance as a friends HT P4..... which is bizzare - might have something to the fact that I have overclocked mine, but its amazing what you can do nowadays.

[tvradict]

o a slight tangent here, but how do you over-clock?? I'm running an Athlon 850 and wouldn't mind taking it to a gig if I can. I know I will need a bigger fan but what else will I need to do?!

[ErnestM]

pbrettle said:

AMD fan here - never been a fan or Intel processors as the manipulation of the market is SO obvious. The latest generation of P4's are good and I would recommend them for pure performance. But for cost effective use (contrary to what I just said on a different thread - where money wasnt too much of an option) the most cost effective processor is an AMD. You cant compare clock speeds - try a google search also - you will see that the AMD chips are faster for a lower clock speed. Though do be warned that this is utterly dependant on what task you are using it for. However, an AMD chip of comparable performance to a P4 will be cheaper, cooler and easier to overclock.... P.S. Hyperthreading is a bit of a non-starter for games and stuff - only really works in certain areas and my AMD Duron system is the same perfomance as a friends HT P4..... which is bizzare - might have something to the fact that I have overclocked mine, but its amazing what you can do nowadays.

Hyperthreading is, by the way, the dog's proverbial danglies for digital imaging/video. When you load XP with an HT compatible processor, it actually loads the multiprocessor code in XP. It cuts through intensive video and graphics jobs like a knife through butter...

...and you can play a game of GTA:VC while it's doing it...

ErnestM
(3.2Ghz P4HT/875Pcs, 1GB 2CAS Ram, 1Terrabyte SAT storage - is it hot in here or did a fan stop?)

[stuh]

I'd go for the new Athlon64. You can get a 3Gig chip for about £150 from scan. Supports AMD's new hyper threading type technology and upcoming 64 bit OS's and apps.

Photoshop will soon be releasing a 64 bit version of Photoshop that will require a 64bit CPU. Intel don't have one as yet................

I recently bought one and it blitzes my other PC which is an Intel 2.8Ghz P4

>> Edited by stuh on Tuesday 27th January 06:50