'feeling' the difference between socket a and socket 754

[AkumaX]

can you 'tell' that having an IMC is much faster than the outdated 462 stuff?

 

[TGS]

maybe

 

[evilharp]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
can you 'tell' that having an IMC is much faster than the outdated 462 stuff?

In my experience, the answer is yes.

I upgraded from a 2.4ghz barton (OCed 2500XP-M with nForce2 Dual-channel DDR400) to a 2.2 ghz 3500+ (939 not 754). Across the board the A64 was faster at everything. The A64 754 chips perform very close to the speed equivalent 939 chips in all benchmarks (+/- 5%) so you could expect similar results.

Are you upgrading from socket A to a new platform? If so, go with a 939 board and CPU, as the:

- 754 is being retired (i.e. becoming Sempron only)
- 939 platform offers more CPU choices (X2/FX/A64)
- 939 platform is still being developed and upgraded (yes, there are nForce4 754 boards, but they are rare and most vendors don't stock them)

 

[Lithan]

Feel in what?

Surfing/music/etc? No
Looking at your encode/compile/whatever times? Yeah
Playing games? Sometimes.

 

[forumposter32]

Unpacking large WinRAR files, installing programs, playing UT2004.

In fact, the largest difference is in video games, no doubt. As a matter of fact, my old HP with Win98SE can perfectly surf the Internet. I don't have any problems with my old machine. It's just, it doesn't play any games real well at all.
http://www23.tomshardware.com

 

[Geomagick]

Overall the A64 will feel about the same/faster at everything.

The blur comes when the same question is asked of later P4 HTs and A64. Where the A64 is quite often faster but feels slower when using normal windows apps.