3500+ vs. P4 3.0Ghz HT

[slobber]

Hey,

Toms hardware has a great video where they run a 3.0Ghz HT P4 processor against a 3.6Ghz P4 without HT. It shows how much faster the 3.0Ghz HT is. My question is, how would that HT P4 compare to the AMD 3000+ and 3500+ and stock speeds?

hmm....

thanks,

 

[imported_kouch]

depends on what you mean by faster? If you mean multitasking, HT probably makes the P4 faster, but anything else A64 wins hands down (especially gaming).

 

[gobucks]

yeah, my A64 seems WAY faster overall than the piece of crap HP computers at work, and they have 3.2GHz P4s in them, so i imagine a 3500 would crush a 3.0GHz HT P4. Still, if you do lots of CPU intensive multitasking, like DivX encoding while using autocad or something like that, I'm sure the HT helps quite a bit. In office productivity, though, the P4 with HT doesn't feel any faster to me, even when running multiple apps. I plan on sticking with my A64 3000+ until dual core, and throwing in one of those bad boys in my PC once they get cheap, i.e. sub-$200. a REAL dual core system will be way better than a VIRTUAL dual core system, any day.