Pentium 4 3.2ghz Or Athlon Xp 3200+?

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

i oc mine to 3.6ghz. and that is just through the BIOS. it is nice
oh, i have a intel P4 3.0ghz stock northwood

[Amarjit]

Originally posted by Mad Cat@12 April 2004 - 21:32
Go for a 64 bit, when the newer ones come out they'll be expensive, but I guess the wait could get you a better PC. Your choice, but if you keep waiting forever you'll never get a new PC.

True. AMD have already announced that they are to shift the chips' to a 90nm manufacturing process - which will result in a reduction in cost of the chips, as well as an enhancement to speed.

So I could wait, but do you think it's worth it, seeing as I could get a top-of-the-range P4 chip, as the 3.4GHz Northwood sucks, or harness the benefits of 64-bit computing - which might be ... ?

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

the PRESCOTTS are the one that supposedly suck. not northwoods.

[Amarjit]

Mesh Elite 3.4GHz Pulse makes use of the Northwood 3.4GHz processor, but PC Pro found they couldn't mantain system stability. Anyway it's off-topic, so any views regarding my above post?

[bigdawgfoxx]

Originally posted by Mïcrösöül°V³@12 April 2004 - 16:11
i oc mine to 3.6ghz. and that is just through the BIOS.

What else are you going to use?

[zapjb]

FlyingDutchman 
Posted: 12 April 2004 - 09:47

Once you managed to mount an AMD 3200+ Socket A CPU on your Socket 478 P4 board, be sure to tell me how you did it !

Switching sockets will cost you more than 200 pounds, sorry...

That was almost spit on the screen funny.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Amarjit@12 April 2004 - 17:20
Mesh Elite 3.4GHz Pulse makes use of the Northwood 3.4GHz processor, but PC Pro found they couldn't mantain system stability. Anyway it's off-topic, so any views regarding my above post?

go for 64 bit, because in the future when 64 bit software is out youll be wishing you had one to try things out. the p4 may have better, or atleast very close to same 32bit performance. but being able to use 64bit software will rock! lol

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx+12 April 2004 - 16:26--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (bigdawgfoxx @ 12 April 2004 - 16:26)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Mïcrösöül°V³@12 April 2004 - 16:11
i oc mine to 3.6ghz. and that is just through the BIOS.

What else are you going to use? [/b][/quote]
i dont oc much, so i was under the impression that there were other ways to OC. not just the bios. hell, i dont know about this sort of thing.

[Peerzy]

Originally posted by Mïcrösöül°V³+13 April 2004 - 00:16--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mïcrösöül°V³ @ 13 April 2004 - 00:16)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@12 April 2004 - 16:26
<!--QuoteBegin-Mïcrösöül°V³

@12 April 2004 - 16:11
i oc mine to 3.6ghz. and that is just through the BIOS.

What else are you going to use?

i dont oc much, so i was under the impression that there were other ways to OC. not just the bios. hell, i dont know about this sort of thing. [/b][/quote]
Well you should have read a guide of some sort on overclocking before you posted .

Get a 64bit, im getting one in a fe months, there the only way to go with Intel not producing a 64bit cpu.

[Amarjit]

I disagree to a minor extent ...

My preliminary decision has become influenced upon the numerous benchmarks, located here:
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/roundu...4-32ghz-ee.html

Scrolling to the latter segments witnesses the comparison of the the Athlon64 3200+ and Pentium 4 3.2GHz.

The majority of the tests see Intel dominating for victory. Aside from games, or fractional losses, the 3.2GHz P4 wins, evidently.

To worsen my tough decision, both chips do not different intensively in price.