p4 or amd....

[Shimmishim]

I've been an avid AMD fan since the release of the socket A version of the k7. i currently am running a year old system (1 ghz AVIA stepping @ 1.33 ghz) and i'm planning on upgrading during the summer. I keep seeing the forums and seeing how well the new northwood p4's are overclocking. i see lots of data on the 1.6a ghz p4 overclocking to 2.4ish or less...

so the question is... which way should i upgrade? p4 or amd?

 

[MrCraphead]

Hmmmm..........perhaps I may take the Intel route as well, I'm running on a 1.2 Tbird and a Soyo Dragon+.

You're right, those OCing stories about P4's are truly very appealling. Can anyone lend us some advice on whether it'd be a good idea or not to move to an Intel based system? Thanks!

 

[o1die]

I would wait and see if the thoroughbred (amd's .13 cpu) runs cooler and see how it's priced. I like my p4 1.6a with sis 645 board; just changing the fsb to 133 and the ratio to 4:5 results in great speed. I raised my cpu vcore only .075 volts to get it running stable. Could go higher but my modem doesn't run stable at higher speeds. P4 prices are supposed to drop 25-50% in the coming weeks to make room for the new 533 p4's, which probably won't run any faster and will be harder to overclock.

 

[HardWareXpert]

I'd go for a AthlonXP 1900+/2000+ as it world be eqivalent to overclocking your P4 to 2Ghz anyway.

 

[Wolfsraider]

in may the 2.2 p-4 will be 242.00 and the xeon 2.2 will be 267.00


<< which probably won't run any faster and will be harder to overclock. >>


they have an article at vr zone that you might find intresting

depends on what you use it for and how far you want to overclock

on less overclocking the athlon is a great choice on abundant overclocking the p-4 does better

i am going after either a 2.6 533 fsb northwood uniprocessor or dual 2.2 xeons in may well at least so far


edit i am not saying that the 2.6 is coming in may i am really meaning i am leaning toward a dual processor setup

 

[CoDerEd]

talking about price performance ratio
1.6 northwood is about the same price w/ XP1800+
it's around $130 at Newegg I believe.
but the the XP beats northwood on the performance all the way{not OC],
I'd say about 30%, you can not get really high OC on XP probably about 1.7 on
XP1800[it will count as XP2000 on some mobo] - on the other side the 1.6 can
be OC to 2.2 easily or you can go all the way to 2.4 or more if you have a nice setup.
Now the performance becomes par, well more or less in a few aspect.

So if you will be satisfied with the stock clock speed take the AMD, it's faster on the same price
but if you will enjoy OC'ing than you have the choice.

I'd go with Northwood because I've been on AMD since the Athlon 650 and the
price of pentium is unbelieveble at that time, now when the price is seems reasonable
i give it a try, i had XP1900 that i had to sell it to get the northwood.

I 'm happy with my 1.8a@2.5/MSI845 now, it's not faster than
my XP1900@2000+/KR7A but at least it's not slower neither since
I don't spend extra money on this setup. The money I got from selling
the XP setup is the exact amount i have to pay for the Northwood.

peace

 

[railer]

For someone who is already running AMD, your performance per $ ratio is going to be a lot sweeter if you stick with what you have (assuming you can keep your current mem and MB, of course). If you're one of these guys whose worried about a couple of points in a benchmark, then by all means spend several hundred more on new mem, MB, power supply, etc. If I was building a new system from scratch I may go with the P4...

 

[johndoe52]

I think i'm gonna get an XP 1800, pump up the fsb to 150(so it'll be 1725 mhz or equal to the 2100) and wait for clawhammer and build a system with that.