P4478 vs. 64754

[Maxil223]

My friend claims the socket doesnt matter for gaming, and that its your clock speed. He says his Pentium 4 2.66 can whip my A64 3200+ in any benchmark. What does the socket number mean? Is it clock speed??

 

[DaFinn]

Originally posted by: Maxil223
My friend claims the socket doesnt matter for gaming, and that its your clock speed. He says his Pentium 4 2.66 can whip my A64 3200+ in any benchmark. What does the socket number mean? Is it clock speed??

Uhh, what??? Socket = connection between your CPU and motherboard. Has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with how fast a PC is. And your A64 3200+ can run circles around his P4 2.66!!! IN ANY BENCHMARK!

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: Maxil223
My friend claims the socket doesnt matter for gaming, and that its your clock speed. He says his Pentium 4 2.66 can whip my A64 3200+ in any benchmark. What does the socket number mean? Is it clock speed??

Your friend is an idiot. The A64 3200 crushes the P4 2.6C in every benchmark.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...oc.aspx?i=2149&p=7

Heres one example where your friends chip failed.

 

[CraigRT]

no offense to you, but that is easily one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.

and Yes, the A64 3200+ is better than the 2.6C.

 

[Appledrop]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
no offense to you, but that is easily one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.

and Yes, the A64 3200+ is better than the 2.6C.

 

[jbh129]

dont forget that intel must be better because they have higher numbers

 

[RussianSensation]

Sure A64 is faster. However, a faster videocard will go a long way.

AXP2100+ &X800XT can often be faster than A64 4000+/P4 4ghz + Radeon 9800Pro. So it's not all about the cpu speed for gaming.

You can always both run 3dmark01 and just settle this. To make the comparison fairer, just use your 5500 videocard in his computer or his videocard in yours. The beauty of 3dmark01 is that it generally tells you the "overall speed of your computer" (but in non-shader intensive/non-DX9+ games)

The socket # just means how many pins are on the cpu itself (which are used to link the cpu to the motherboard)

So I want to stress that for gaming, it is the overall package that matters (and more importantly the videocard). If he has P4 2.66 and something like Radeon 9800Pro, then yes his system is faster.

 

[stelleg151]

Do benchmarks, and compare numbers, that should put his 2.6 in its place.

 

[Maxil223]

well please dont blame all of this dumb question on me. I have a problem with compeitition. Whenever one of my friends says their rig is better than mine, i worry that they are correct.

 

[Rike]

Please inform your friend that if he must speak, he should have some vague notion of what he is talking about. He clearly dwells in ignorance. Have him read a any gaming related benchmark on AT, heck, anywhere on the net, and he can begin to emerge from the darkness and stop wasting oxygen.

 

[Rike]

Originally posted by: Maxil223
well please dont blame all of this dumb question on me. I have a problem with compeitition. Whenever one of my friends says their rig is better than mine, i worry that they are correct.

Then it is time for a new vid card. The gForce 5 cards are junk.

 

[Lonyo]

Guys, it's a 2.66B, not even a 2.6C, which means it's even worse in comparison.
Your processor spanks his.

 

[cheesehead]

The P4 is a waste of silicon. The A64 is an amazing bit of strained Si goodness. Unless you have short-sheeted your RAM or he has a vastly superior graphics card (which I doubt he does) you are far ahead of him in terms of performance. A good benchmark for CPU power is iTunes AAC encoding; if you have equivalent amounts of RAM you should be encoding in seconds to the P4 box's minutes.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

The A64 3200 will run circles around a 2.66 P4. Your friend obviously thinks all that matters is clock speeds.

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah, you friend is not to bright, I think even a A64 2800+ would run circles around the 2.66ghz P4 which doesn't even have hyperthreading, and probably uses PC2100 ddr in single channel mode.