Pentium 4 3.2ghz Or Athlon Xp 3200+?

[Mad Cat]

Testing a 64 bit processor on a 32 bit platform isn't really unfair.

It's like racing a rally car and a formula one car on muddy hills. Its obvious the rally car will win, but whats not obvious is how it will perform given the right environment.

EDIT: I also don't know what they were doing in those tests, but I can easily get 5500-5900 mB/s peak memory bandwith. Looks to me like they haven't configured that FX beast properly.

[Amarjit]

Sorry, I should have outlined that I was making a referral to the 3.2GHz P4 vs. the Athlon64 3200+ benchmarks, towards the footer of the document.

Also, I have no desire to purchase the FX-51/53 chip as they excell in price - inadequate for my requirements. I'm mainly focusing on the Athlon64 3200+ and the P4 3.2GHz.

Perhaps I ought to re-consider purchasing at this moment, and simply await the arrival of Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, to witness fair and comparable benchmarks. Additionally, the future sees a reduction to the manufacturing cost of the Athlon64, and an increase to the speeds, via utilising a 90nm technique.

[kaiweiler]

I would go with the athlon 64, if you have money for that and also a compatable mobo to go with it, I would do that for sure
I would have done that but don't have that kinda money ATM, so I went with the 2500+ and oc'ed it to 2.3Ghz from the stock 1.83Ghz
but yeah if you have enough money get the athlon 64 and a decent mobo as well

[rewski54]

This is the one decision that is holding me up from building my new system. Everytime I think I have made a decision on which I am going to buy I read something new which puts me back on the fence. One of these days I guess I will just have to take the plunge and live with my choice.

[kaiweiler]

Originally posted by rewski54@14 April 2004 - 18:48
This is the one decision that is holding me up from building my new system. Everytime I think I have made a decision on which I am going to buy I read something new which puts me back on the fence. One of these days I guess I will just have to take the plunge and live with my choice.

yeah you gotta build sometime...
not sure why anyone would wanna build right now though, with all the new stuff coming out
but whatever floats your boat...

[rewski54]

I'd like to be able to wait but the system I'm using now is a piece of crap. P2 550, 256 ram, 13 gig hd and so on. I need a new machine.