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Dual Channel DDR (P4) Benchmarks @ 188mhz...

Since the guy starting the thread is Kyle Bennett, the owner of HardOcp, I would think the benchies are on the up and up.


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Wow, impressive! 🙂

I think I'll hold off on a major, expensive upgrade right now and just stick to getting the XP1600+ for a few $ more than I can sell my current CPU for and a Ti4200 and then upgrade like a fiend around the New Year.
 
Originally posted by: zippy
Wow, impressive! 🙂

I think I'll hold off on a major, expensive upgrade right now and just stick to getting the XP1600+ for a few $ more than I can sell my current CPU for and a Ti4200 and then upgrade like a fiend around the New Year.
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That's what I just did. I built two systems around the Epox 8K5A2+ (KT333) and the 1600+ XP AGOIA and they perform excellent. So much so that I decided to sell my 1.6A@2.4ghz / 4G4A+ setup because the real world performance was not really any better...in benchmarks, yes, but not otherwise. So, I decided to wait until I can get 3ghz+, Hyperthreading, and dual channel DDR. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Originally posted by: zippy
Wow, impressive! 🙂

I think I'll hold off on a major, expensive upgrade right now and just stick to getting the XP1600+ for a few $ more than I can sell my current CPU for and a Ti4200 and then upgrade like a fiend around the New Year.
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That's what I just did. I built two systems around the Epox 8K5A2+ (KT333) and the 1600+ XP AGOIA and they perform excellent. So much so that I decided to sell my 1.6A@2.4ghz / 4G4A+ setup because the real world performance was not really any better...in benchmarks, yes, but not otherwise. So, I decided to wait until I can get 3ghz+, Hyperthreading, and dual channel DDR. 🙂
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Yeah, definitely. Looking at Anandtech's CPU Scaling article, most of the faster video cards won't benefit tremendously from a faster CPU. An XP1600+ overclocked to 1.8GHz is plenty for it. Plus, you can't beat the price! 🙂
 
Cool. It will be interesting when I upgrade next year. Clawhammer Vs. P4 with Dual-channed DDR
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That's an easy choice: Sledgehammer with Dual channel DDR.

Assuming AMD stays in business long enough and releases it soon enough.
 
Originally posted by: glugglug
Cool. It will be interesting when I upgrade next year. Clawhammer Vs. P4 with Dual-channed DDR
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That's an easy choice: Sledgehammer with Dual channel DDR.

Assuming AMD stays in business long enough and releases it soon enough.
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Sledgehammer (or Clawhammer DP, it too would have two memory-channels. Each CPU has it's own 64bit mem-channel but they can use other CPU's memory as well, making it really a 2x64bit memory-channel) will cost quite alot of money I think.
 
From HardOCP forum:

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Originally posted by therecka
What board and which memory is used in this benchmark?
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*cough* NDA *cough*

Ummm, am I wrong or has Kyle broken NDAs before... 😉
 
Originally posted by: fkloster
Can someone please paraphase Kyles article for me...I have boycotted Hard OCP so I can't go there 🙂
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It's not an article, more of a teaser screenshot of SiSoftware Sandra showing a GB based mobo with a P4 scoring ~4.6 GB/Sec mem bandwidth.
Impressive 🙂
 
SCHAWING!!!!!!!!!!!😛😀

Screw this i845PE bullcrap, I'll stick with my i845G until the dual channel boards come out. That way we can have native Serial-ATA support too that doesn't run through the PCI bus.
 
Originally posted by: fkloster
Can someone please paraphase Kyles article for me...I have boycotted Hard OCP so I can't go there 🙂
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Oh cmon, get your ass over there and check it out!!! 😛

Originally posted by: NFS4
SCHAWING!!!!!!!!!!!😛😀

Screw this i845PE bullcrap, I'll stick with my i845G until the dual channel boards come out. That way we can have native Serial-ATA support too that doesn't run through the PCI bus.
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Uh... yeah! You like me NEED to hold out till DC, it won't make sense to get any other 845XX considering our current setup. 😉

Like Anand stated:
"After taking an in depth look at three 845PE motherboards, it becomes abundantly clear that they have a lot to offer, but perhaps too little too late; dual channel DDR motherboards from Intel, VIA, and SiS will be arriving before the end of the year, supposedly offering significantly better performance than current single channel DDR solutions."
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Can't wait!
 
I am with both of you...I am going to stick with my i845d and i845g epox mobos until GB come out....Hopefully around xmas...I run high fsb now so if 1:1 ratio is all there is I can run some pretty high numbers!!! May make ppl want to stick with some of these lower northwood "a" processors.....Maybe a 1.8a with c1 stepping for xmas as well and get it up to 3ghz plus with a 333mhz dual channel ddr board...

I can run 166fsb at least now and looking at the numbers he stated he had at 333mhz ddr it till would beat the pc1066 and even pc1200 scores...
 
Same here. I haven't seen any reason to "upgrade" my EPOX 845D board until now. A GB chipset board will be my next major upgrade.
 
I haven't read that much by Kyle but I was put off by his attitude in the thread. As far as the NDA, he says that he didn't sign one in reference to this particular board that he's using.
 
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