Pentium 4 Extreme Edition Benchmarks! At 3.4GHz too!!

[mrgoblin]

Well what do you know the P4 Emergency Edition isnt an a64. Wait I already knew this. Lets see the Intel fanbois tear this thread apart.

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: mrgoblin
Well what do you know the P4 Emergency Edition isnt an a64. Wait I already knew this. Lets see the Intel fanbois tear this thread apart.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: mrgoblin
Well what do you know the P4 Emergency Edition isnt an a64. Wait I already knew this. Lets see the Intel fanbois tear this thread apart.

Why does some phrase about stones and glass houses come to mind right now?

 

[Snoop]

Originally posted by: mrgoblin
Well what do you know the P4 Emergency Edition isnt an a64. Wait I already knew this. Lets see the Intel fanbois tear this thread apart.

wth? Well what do you know, the p4 is no athon 64, whaaaaatttt the hell does that mean?

 

[BD231]

Originally posted by: Snoop

Originally posted by: mrgoblin
Well what do you know the P4 Emergency Edition isnt an a64. Wait I already knew this. Lets see the Intel fanbois tear this thread apart.

wth? Well what do you know, the p4 is no athon 64, whaaaaatttt the hell does that mean?

It means people shouldn't be comparing the two, as it's obvious the A64 is in a whole different performance category.

 

[Pandaren]

wth? Well what do you know, the p4 is no athon 64, whaaaaatttt the hell does that mean?

It means that all the AMD fan-bois will be swooning over the Athlon 64. I'm not all that impressed with P4-Extreme, but Athlon 64 is hardly the second comming of Christ that fan-bois make it out to be.

That being said, I think I will build an Athlon 64 system if the performance is good and the price is right. So far the performance looks excellent!

 

[First]

Originally posted by: dullardThe EE added a 1.5% to 14% boost when going from 3.2 GHz P4 to 3.2 GHz P4 EE. Average boost was 7.4%.

Hehe:

Originally posted by: Evan Lieb on September 16thThe average will probably be more like 7-8%

 

[dullard]

Evan, I think both are right, the original thread said 2%-20% and Ace's got 1.5% to 14% on just a handful of programs. No doubt that other programs can be found that approach 20%. Your 7%-8% estimate is a good average, but you have an unfair advantage that the rest of us don't have (inside information).

 

[First]

Originally posted by: dullard
Evan, I think both are right, the original thread said 2%-20% and Ace's got 1.5% to 14% on just a handful of programs. No doubt that other programs can be found that approach 20%. Your 7%-8% estimate is a good average, but you have an unfair advantage that the rest of us don't have (inside information).

Well, obviously 2-20% is misleading knowing that a handful of popular gaming apps show 7.4%. I don't see much more than 7-8% of performance coming from that extra cache.

And trust me, I don't have a P4 EE CPU here, and I don't think Anand even has one yet. So no, I definitely didn't have any inside information in this case.

 

[Sid59]

lol @ the hysteria. it's great when companies say there's no need for something and then release something in similar vein.

 

[Lyfer]

Doesn't look like the the extra cash is worth it for the extra 2mb cache.


Lets see those Athlon 64 FX numbers now.

 

[mrgoblin]

I personally dont care about the fx numbers because either way, its not gonna work in a pci express mobo in the 6-8 months till it comes out. Who wants something thats gonna suck in 8 months?

 

[First]

Originally posted by: mrgoblin
I personally dont care about the fx numbers because either way, its not gonna work in a pci express mobo in the 6-8 months till it comes out. Who wants something thats gonna suck in 8 months?

If you're upgrading in 6-8 months for PCI express, you're not going to keep your current motherboard. I don't know anyone who would just upgrade their CPU and keep the same board just because they could.

 

[BFG10K]

The Athlon 64 should still be the faster chip but if nothing else the new P4s will cause the rest of Intel's line to drop in price.