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pent 4 3.3 ghz athlon 64 3000

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i have a pentium 4 3.0 ghz with 512 megs of ddr2100 memory overclocked to 3.3 ghz
and i have athlon 64 3000 oc to 2.4 ghz with 512 megs ddr400 with my memory running at 166 megs
when i run 3dmark 03 the pentium 4 scored 8993 and the athlon 64 scored 9115
my athlon 64 is paired with a dfi board and the pentium 4 is a ecs board that was purchased as a fry's combo how is that as far as scores go compaired to athlon/pent 4's owners?
i am also using a ata 100 hd western digital 40 gb in both machines

i want to add a 10K rpm hd and 512 meg's of more memory to my athlon machine i was testing with a DFI 6800 OC video card when i ran the 3d mark test would it be worth it to get a 10K rpm HD or go with sata 7200 rpm? and how about 1 gig of memory would that help with test scores?
 
1. 3dMark03 is primarily a videocard benchmark. Having a faster hard drive or even more ram is going to have a minimal effect on performance (hard drive speed should have 0 affect on graphics performance in this case)

2. In real life, 1 gig of ram makes things a lot smoother for gaming, especially since latest games demand more ram. Hard drive speed is more important for loading game levels and installing of the game in the first place and I don't see how it would affect your FPS during actual gaming (but I might be wrong).

I think in both cases, since your cpus are very fast, you would be hard pressed to notice the difference in the real world.

If you want to test general system speed in games, you can try to test using 3dmark01 and you'll see larger differences which will help to highlight A64's advantage in gaming.
 
I see thank you for the information for this is my first athlon 64 that i have owned and i am impressed for the most part. i have upgraded from a athlon xp 1600 to this athlon 64 3000 and a upgrade from a athlon 1100 to a pentium 4 for my kids that way i can try out both systems.
 
The p4 3.0ghz is a 800fsb chip and how are you running ddr2100 ( which I assume you mean pc2100)


If you had pc2100 the 2450ghz a64 which would be closer to a 3800+ should eat the p4 alive...in other apps then the one you pointed to.

HT will give it leads in certain apps but the memory system in the p4 system should really show its weaknessWith the same vid card the p3.3c pretty much would not win any gaming benchmark....

 
with the athlon 64 i have pc3200 and with the pent 4 i had pc2100 memory when i ran 3dmark 03 i am learning that the 3dmark 03 is really a test of the graphics card and not the processor i'm running a 5/4 divider on my memory and 166 i think? with my processor running at 2.4 ghz with a dfi board and a 6800 oc video card

the pentium 4 was overclocked to 3.3 ghz with pc2100 memory when i ran the test not evne dual channel memory
 
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