Whats Better Athalon Or Pentium?

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power+31 October 2003 - 18:04--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (abu_has_the_power &#064; 31 October 2003 - 18:04)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-fr600@31 October 2003 - 21:57
Obviously its Pentium&#33;&#33;&#33;

yea. someone&#39;s openly backing me up. thanks man. no matter wat, i would still go with pentiums. they may be more expensive, but how many servers, big servers are run on amds? most of them are run on intel xeon or p4[/b][/quote]
So, abu_has_no_power, do you base this on your alleged extensive knowledge about servers or are you just spewing bullshit again?

Don&#39;t post if you don&#39;t know what you&#39;re posting about.

[zapjb]

AMD with my money. Intel with lotto winnings.

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234+1 November 2003 - 01:30--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Virtualbody1234 @ 1 November 2003 - 01:30)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@31 October 2003 - 18:04
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@31 October 2003 - 21:57
Obviously its Pentium&#33;&#33;&#33;

yea. someone&#39;s openly backing me up. thanks man. no matter wat, i would still go with pentiums. they may be more expensive, but how many servers, big servers are run on amds? most of them are run on intel xeon or p4

So, abu_has_no_power, do you base this on your alleged extensive knowledge about servers or are you just spewing bullshit again?

Don&#39;t post if you don&#39;t know what you&#39;re posting about.

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if i am, then my apologies. but let&#39;s all say that they&#39;re equaly good. ok?

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by fr600@31 October 2003 - 21:57
Obviously its Pentium&#33;&#33;&#33;

Ah, a well-balanced argument, backed up by clearly-defined reasoning with good, solid evidence.

How refreshing.











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[Neo 721]

Its kind of pathetic that the only argument people can find is the value for money, if clock speed was issue then Athlon would still be kings and have no competitions.

It would be nice if a mod could make this into a poll.

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by Neo 721@1 November 2003 - 20:15
Its kind of pathetic that the only argument people can find is the value for money, if clock speed was issue then Athlon would still be kings and have no competitions.

Clock speed - uh, no, Intel is capable of producing processors with much faster clock speeds than AMD can.

If you&#39;re talking about performance, the actual differences between equivalent processors (eg P4 2.4GHz vs Athlon 2400+) are negligible, apart from one factor. Price.



And it can&#39;t be made into a reasonable poll, because there are too many people who just go

AMD ownz Intel, I have an Athlon 2000+ and it kicks my friend&#39;s P4 3.06&#39;s ass

or

Intel r and always will b teh 1337. U need 2 overclock those crappy AMD chips then dey get burned

- so a poll wouldn&#39;t tell you much, other than which company&#39;s marketing department is doing better. People who are well-informed about x86 processors seem to be pretty thin on the ground

[Neo 721]

I kinda didnt spell it out right, if you were to compare the performance of an Intel and AMD with the same clockspeed then the AMD would be well superior over Intel.

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by Neo 721@1 November 2003 - 21:53
I kinda didnt spell it out right, if you were to compare the performance of an Intel and AMD with the same clockspeed then the AMD would be well superior over Intel.

So? AMD are incapable of running their chips at the same clockspeeds as Intel P4s.



Clock speed is only one part of a large equation. It doesn&#39;t matter, it is not a measure of speed.

Saying something&#39;s faster or slower based entirely on clock speed is like comparing an octopus to a horse - what you&#39;re saying is like "a horse would be massively faster if it had 8 legs". That&#39;s not possible; neither is having an Athlon running at P4 clock speeds.

[Benno]

Lamsey I think you missunderstood his statement. I think he meant if you compare a Athlon running at e.g. 2 Ghz and a P4 running at 2Ghz as well then the athlon will be faster BECAUSE of what you said.

Clock speed is only one part of a large equation. It doesn&#39;t matter, it is not a measure of speed.

[Lamsey]

I understood perfectly.


What I&#39;m saying is clock speed doesn&#39;t matter. Who gives a damn if Athlons can do more per clock cycle than a P4? P4s can do more clock cycles. It evens out.

The only factors you should be interested in when looking at processors are price and performance. Ideally, you should look at how well the two compare.

Clock speed tells you very little about performance. It only gives you a rough idea. a 2GHz Intel chip is middle-of-the-road while a 2GHz AMD chip is high-end. Clock speed doesn&#39;t matter in real life.