How much performance gain would I get if I upgraded from a TB 1.4 to a XP 1.4?

[ZeroSleep]

I have a Soyo Dragon-Plus w/ a Thunderbird/266 1.4ghz cpu and I want to know if it would be worth it to upgrade to an Athlon XP 1.4ghz or higher.

Would I notice a major difference, say in games/burning mpegs, cpu temp etc?

 

[SpeedTester]

I dont think it would be worth buying a 1.4 Xp to replace your Tbird 1.4.
You should be able to bring that 1.4 up to around ~1.6ghz without much
diffuculty. If you were going for a higher Clock speed on the XP (1.6ghz+)
then I would say go with itbut not replacing a Tbird 1.4 with a XP 1.4.

 

[ZeroSleep]

Ok Thanks for the advice. I wonder how much better the system would be with the latest XP, but I think I should wait another 6 months - year to upgrade. Thoroughbred looks worth waiting for.

 

[MoFunk]

I would wait. Get more bang for the buck that way.

 

[dew042]

<< I would wait. Get more bang for the buck that way. >>



i have resigned myself to waiting. the current xp core ain't getting much higher. i bet we will see the throughbred sooner than we expect.

dew.

 

[Wind]

<<

<< I would wait. Get more bang for the buck that way. >>



i have resigned myself to waiting. the current xp core ain't getting much higher. i bet we will see the throughbred sooner than we expect.

dew. >>

1.4 Ghz is already ass kickin...wise to wait for next major upgrade.

 

[Egrimm]

Yeah, it wouldn't be owrth the money. the only reason I got a 1600+ instead of my 1,4 T-Bird was that it suddenly died, snif, rip. And of course, that the local shops didn't have any 1800+ (or 1700+ for that matter) in stock and I needed a cpu

Anyway, here some Sandra benches of both cpu's so you can see how little difference there is:

Thunderbird 1400 (10,5x133)
Dhrystone ALU 3894
Whetstone FPU 1913

XP 1600+ (1400 Mhz)
Dhrystone ALU 3931
Whetstone FPU 1929

 

[ZeroSleep]

Very nice. thanks egrimm

 

[Egrimm]

Oh, the 1600+ is 10.5 x 133 too of course.

As you can see, there isn't much difference between the two cpus, and I don't feel any performance difference between 'em. The only program that runs faster is PhotoShop, and that's probably because of SSE, but the 1Gb ddr-ram (versus 768mb pc133 sdram) is influencing this so I cannnot really say if how much better the cpu performs.

 

[ZeroSleep]

To increase performance, I upgraded to RAID 0 with 2 80gig western digitals. this computer should last me a year =)

 

[gdawson6]

My 1.4 tb runs stable at 1644 mhz, which will definately be fast enough for me for a while.

 

[ku]

I think you should wait. The performance gain (at the same clock) isn't worth the money. If anything, spend money on some good cooling and overclock.