AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton or Pentium 4 2.0Ghz 512k processor

[masterchief19]

What is the big difference between this P4 and XP. Both run @ 2GHz, ATA-133, and 333FSB. I am builiding a system and I want to know which of these is more reliable and will be better for gaming, mp3s, webbuilding, image editing, and word processing. Which is better over all...which is faster and more reliable?

 

[masterchief19]

Specs for the P4...I don't think it is exactly the same as the XP 2500+, but I don't understand all of these, for I am new at this, so feel free to explain anything needed.· Binary compatible with applications running on previous members of the Intel
microprocessor line;
· Intel NetBurst micro-architecture;
· System bus frequency at 400MHz;
· Rapid Execution Engine: Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs) run at twice the processor core
frequency;
· Hyper Pipelined Technology;
· Advance Dynamic Execution: Very deep out-of-order execution, and Enhanced branch
prediction;
· Level 1 Execution Trace Cache stores 12K micro-ops and removes decoder latency
from main execution loops;
· 8 KB Level 1 data cache;
· 512KB Advanced Transfer Cache (on-die, full speed Level 2 (L2) cache) with 8-way
associativity and Error Correcting Code (ECC);
· 144 Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) instructions;
· Enhanced floating point and multimedia unit for enhanced video, audio, encryption,
and 3D performance;
· Power Management capabilities: System Management mode, and Multiple low-power
states;
· Optimized for 32-bit applications running on advanced 32-bit operating systems;
· 8-way cache associativity provides improved cache hit rate on load/store operations.

 

[masterchief19]

Specs for the Athlon XP 2500+ 333MHz, 'Barton', Socket A::
The Ultimate Digital Media Experience in an x86 Platform
The AMD Athlon XP processor offers fast results when working with digital media like audio, video, and image files. The AMD Athlon XP processor provides for outstanding near real-time voice, video, and CAD/CAM as a result of features like larger cache memory, 3DNow! Professional technology, and the innovative QuantiSpeed architecture which includes the industry?s most powerful fully-pipelined x86 floating point engine.

Tailored for Microsoft Windows XP
The AMD Athlon XP processor offers compelling performance for running Microsoft Windows XP, as well as outstanding performance on previous versions of Windows. The raw power and robust features of the AMD Athlon XP processor enable users to make the most of multitasking and user switching capabilities offered in Windows XP. Microsoft optimized the DirectX 8.0 interface for Windows XP specifically for the AMD Athlon XP processor. The AMD Athlon XP processor?s innovative QuantiSpeed architecture helps propel Windows XP application performance to a new level. To unleash the rich features found in Windows XP, AMD and Microsoft worked together to optimize applications like Media Encoder 8.0 for AMD?s 3DNow! Professional technology.

Featuring QuantiSpeed Architecture for Rapid Execution of Applications
QuantiSpeed architecture, the latest technological enhancement to the award-winning AMD Athlon processor core, provides for extra performance in the cutting-edge features users need most. At the heart of QuantiSpeed architecture is a nine-issue, superscalar, fully-pipelined core. This provides more pathways to feed application instructions into the execution engines of the core, simply allowing the processor to complete more work in a given clock cycle. Additional features of QuantiSpeed architecture include a superscalar, fully-pipelined floating point engine, hardware data prefetch, and exclusive, speculative Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLBs). Combined, these features help boost overall productivity and allow a system to boot and load applications quickly. In the end, users will enjoy an effortless computing experience.

 

[Necrolezbeast]

The 2500+ is superior to the 2ghz by a bit...the P4 may have it in MP3 and Vid Encoding but everything else the 2500+ will be much quicker!

 

[masterchief19]

MyTime3475 has been extremely helpful and says to get the XP. Also, the XP proc&mobo are $45 cheaper than the P4 proc&mobo. That's what I am thinking, but does anyone object?

 

[Jeff7181]

You got your specs a little confused...

The XP2500 runs at 1833 Mhz (11x166)

Don't forget there's more to AnandTech than just these forums... go to the home page and look at the reviews... looking at the benchmark charts should make that an easy decision for you.