AMD 3000+ or P4 2.8C?

[OOBradm]

alright, heres the deal. Im ordering my new system from ibuypower, and i was wondering whether I would get better performance out of a P42.8 C or a AMD athlon xp 3000+. If I get the AMD, I will get ddr333 ram (better performance), and If I get the P4, then I will be getting ddr400 ram. (1gb of either) so, what do you think would perform better? This will be a gaming pc. Thanks
-Brad

 

[jfall]

How much price different would there be? what motherboards are you choosing from?

 

[Corporate Thug]

are you gonna OC?

 

[OverVolt]

This is gonna be a flame !

But i had a similar choice i went with Intel cause the heatspreaders make me less nervous intalling/removing the CPU. And You don't have to worry about heat as much. Provided there about the same price.

AMD will always be the best bang for the buck even if they don't have the top performer, i have both AMD + Intel machines and if ur dropping alotta cash i'd rather have the Intel. I think the 2.8C will be a little faster, whats the prices on those?

What price range ya lookin at?

 

[OOBradm]

the price difference would be a little more than a $100, the P4 being more. for mobo's --- AMD I was going to get the Asus A78nx deluxe, P4......... some board with the 875p chipset obviously.... not sure which one.

 

[OOBradm]

well, I have a little under $2000 to work with. I was originally planning on going with AMD (since Im an amd whore) and here is what my system looked like:

Asus A7n8x Deluxe mobo
1 gig pc2700 ram (2x 512)
GF FX 5900 (128mb)
onboard sound
Amd Athlon Xp 3000+
antec case with 250 watt PSU
xp home
5.1 altec lansing speakers..


Now if I went with the P4 everything would stay the same except mobo, ram, and cpu
cpu would be 2.8 C
ram would be 1gig of ddr400
mobo would be ????? something with 875p chipset.



The price difference would be about 200 more for the P4 system. worth the extra cash?

 

[Corporate Thug]

if i were you, i would get a 2500+, use the money i saved to get 1 GB of DDR400 and OC the 2500+ to a 3200+

 

[DaveSimmons]

> gaming PC

At stock speeds a 2.8C will beat the 3000+ into a bloody pulp for gaming.

 

[OOBradm]

ok, so if im not planning on overclocking, and I can afford the extra 200 bucks, the 2.8 seems to be the best choice according to everyone? and, if I do get a p4, what is the best mobo for it? (i dont follow p4 stuff too well...)

 

[Lyfer]

XP2500 can easily overclock past XP3000 speeds, an overclocked 2.8C will slap around an XP3200 easily.

 

[mechBgon]

250W PSU?! :Q I hope you meant 350W there.

 

[OOBradm]

yeah 350watt psu....... typo.

So, any recomendations for a p4 mobo?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Abit IS7and Asus P4P800 are the crowd favorites. See the Motherboard forum and reviews on the main Anandtech website.

 

[Jincuteguy]

I thought the P4C800 is the best performance than the P4P800 cause 875 chipset has better memory speed than 865? im not sure if im right

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Jincuteguy
I thought the P4C800 is the best performance than the P4P800 cause 875 chipset has better memory speed than 865? im not sure if im right

No, most manufacturers have figured out how to enable PAT on the 865, though intel's lawyers tell them not to call it PAT. See the Tomshardware Asus review and the Anandtech 865/875 roundup. And the HardOCP reviews and . . .

 

[OOBradm]

well I ended up going with the p4 2.8 rig. Costed me a little over 1800 for everything, and should give me much better performance than then amd system would. (got the IS7 mobo). Thanks for all the help,
OObradm

 

[Hardtarget]

i'd recommend the intel for stock speeds. (i don't overclock and have been using my p4 2.4b for a while now and it's great)
Also get somethign based on teh 865pe chipset insterad of the 875, not worth the extra cash.


wait i just realized you already bought your system LOL.