Pentium Vs Amd

[_John_Lennon_]

Yeah, for anyone who is still in the dark, and thinks that Intels are soo cool and sooo L33T because they have higher Mhz, I take it you havnt been informed of the speed trap you've fallen into.

Here is a link that explains things a bit.

Intel's Speed Trap

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by Cl1mh4224rd@31 July 2003 - 21:16
I'd say the Athlon XP 3000+ holds its own pretty damn well for being nearly a full GHz "slower" than the top P4. In fact, it actually beats the P4 3.06 GHz chip in UT2k3.

Intel really should be ashamed...

i couldn't agree more

i was talking to lamsey though

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by 3rd gen noob@31 July 2003 - 02:00
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/..._charts-22.html

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/..._charts-23.html

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/..._charts-24.html

oh, well

i suppose a difference of 3000 in 3d mark isn't really that much

3D mark is not the way to compare CPU power; it's far more dependant on other factors such as the video card, RAM, etc. A CPU that is 1.5 times faster will not give you 1.5 times the 3dMark performance.


Try looking at the CPU benchmarks instead: http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/..._charts-28.html

they give a much more accurate representation of the proportional relation between CPUs, and as you can see, they correlate fairly well with the model numbers, although the 3000+ lags because the SiSoft benchmarks hadn't been optimised for the 3000+ at the time of printing.

[_John_Lennon_]

Yeah, it was also the only one of the Barton's tested at the time I bleieve.

[boyzeee]

pentium without a doubt, athlon even the barton type are just over and over clocked original athlons, they run to hot as a result and die pre-maturely, believe me i know as i repair and build pc's and rarely get an intel processor that is knackered, amd based pc's that i get on the other hand i'd say three out of ten are the chip burnt out, normally just out of warranty but not always, if you must buy an amd then get a pretty damn big overclocking cooling fan. perfomance wise there is little between them.

[Cygnuz-Y]

How many of you remember the only Proccessor with L3 cache?


AMD K-6 III