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Re: Best CPU

Postby sukotsuto » Fri Dec 05, 2003 8:23 pm

dwchang wrote:Actually although a similar costing P4 and Athlon will perform similarly, you're incorrect in that "top of the line" for both will perform similarly.


Obviously from your comments I should have been more clear. Yet, what I ment by "top of the line" was in reference to desktop processors that each company sells. Specifically the P4EE and Athlon 64 FX 51. The first text block in my post was a response to him and the second was a further suggestion of how to be more productive by getting a dual processor system.


dwchang wrote:As you already noted, a quad-Opteron will maul a dual xeon or anything comprable in price. Hell, even Phade bought a dual Opteron for the .org :-P. I know what you mean though, but I figured I'd point that out since "top of the line" is a misleading word and I think you just meant "comprable." Like I demonstrated, a "top of the line" can be really expensive and significantly different in performance.


Yes, when we talk of multiple processors the benchmarks that I have seen of Opterons take the xeon to lunch big time. I know that the Opterons can scale much better.


dwchang wrote:Now to be realistic with price, I still say a "top of the line" Athlon 64 FX will pwn an *available* Intel solution. The benchmarks already provide sufficient evidence of this and it seems to win in nearly all things...gaming, encoding, etc.

Then again I'm obviously biased working at AMD, but again, the sites and benchmarks are there :-P. Too bad benchmarks can never be 100% accurate either.


I agree that price/performance ratio goes to AMD.
The 64 FX51 is around $700 whereas the P4EE is around $1000. I cannot see why someone would go with the intel chip with that price difference (well maybe an intel zealot). Not to mention in most instances the Athlon 64 FX51 beats it anyways.




I am also an AMD fan (sure I don't work there, but I do own some of their stock).
The last intel computer; well actually the first windows computer that I had was an intel p166mmx. After that all of my computers have had AMD processors in them.
I do think that AMD is the best option. I just would rather not sound totally bias. :wink:
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Sat Dec 06, 2003 12:32 am

The A64 FX was the first chip to break the 30K marker on 3DMark2001. I'd say that's a decent amount of power.
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Postby Kenshin8518 » Sun Dec 21, 2003 6:46 pm

Well, from what everyone was saying about P4 vs AMD, i would have to go with AMD

when i first built this computer, i was gonna use P4, but now i'm a full-fledged AMD person..... I built this computer, and have never had any problems to date, all good stuff....

btw: here is what i am using, and the prices I got for each:
Windows XP Professional: $150
Motherboard: Via KT4 Ultra (KT 400) $100
Processor: AMD Althlon XP 2500+ (1.84 Ghz) Came with Motherboard
Video Card: NVidia GeForce FX 5200 (128MB DDR) $71.95
RAM: 1 GB pc2100 DDR (a 1 gig strip) $100
Audio: I didn't buy an audio card yet, and am using the onboard audio
CD RW: Sony Bezel (52x max) $61
DVD RW: Lite-on DVD+RW LDW-401S (i think 16x max) $117
Hard Drive: Maxtor 6Y120PO (120 GB w/8MB cache) $104.98
USB: Ali PCI to USB (has 5 usb slots on it) $16.85

oh, and my case was $40, can't remember who made it (no name on the case itself)... basically i recommend Nvidia video cards, AMD processors, and any of the companies you see here... i use these companies a lot when building computers...
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