I've been contemplating an upgrade recently, and was die hard AMD for a while, but their prices have really been stagnant lately. My friend built an AMD 1700+ XP system back in late November, and it would actually cost me MORE to build the same system today. :|
So those new Northwoods are looking more attractive as an upgrade, yet the real "big" thing I do with my computer is Seti. I occasionally play a game or encode a DivX movie, but the Athlon XP and P4 are pretty close in those things. I remember XP's having a slight advantage on Williamette P4's in Seti, but that 512KB of L2 cache and higher clockspeed might really make Seti fly.
So how do these suckers do in Seti? Please post:
Clockspeed(multiplier X FSB)
memory type and clock(i.e. DDR @156Mhz or RDRAM at 476Mhz)
Motherboard
And of course Average time for a .4xx AR WU with nothing else running!
Of course, I always could get a duallie AMD rig, but I don't think that's really within my budget(especially since prices are higher than last year!!!).
Thanks for any responses.
Defster
So those new Northwoods are looking more attractive as an upgrade, yet the real "big" thing I do with my computer is Seti. I occasionally play a game or encode a DivX movie, but the Athlon XP and P4 are pretty close in those things. I remember XP's having a slight advantage on Williamette P4's in Seti, but that 512KB of L2 cache and higher clockspeed might really make Seti fly.
So how do these suckers do in Seti? Please post:
Clockspeed(multiplier X FSB)
memory type and clock(i.e. DDR @156Mhz or RDRAM at 476Mhz)
Motherboard
And of course Average time for a .4xx AR WU with nothing else running!
Of course, I always could get a duallie AMD rig, but I don't think that's really within my budget(especially since prices are higher than last year!!!).
Thanks for any responses.
Defster