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Prescott(Pentium-4) or Newcastle(AMD athlon 64)?

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thermalpaste

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Die hard Intel fans keep criticizing AMD cpus because they are not very 'scalable' and the cores 'max' out very fast. AMD fans on the other end keep criticizing Intel for their exhorbitant pricing.
Intel CPUs are excellent for overclocking, Infact I was reading an article the other day where somebody had overclocked his prescott to 6GHz. AMD cpus are more versatile overclockers because they are mostly multiplier unlocked, thus letting enthusiasts increase the FSB and reduce multiplier for stability and higher bandwidth.

I personally stopped buying intel products after the socket 478 was launched. I had a socket 423 pentium-4 and I was really cheesed off, because I couldn't upgrade my CPU. Now I am an AMD freak.
 
I perfer A64 because they perform better in the tasks I use them for. IE Gaming and mostly office tasks. On the OCing side. They are pretty similar IMO. You can get 2800 A64 and OC them very high too... My last AXP chip was a 1466MHz which easily clocked to 2.4GHz and would have gone much highier if I had better ram at the time. The 6GHz Prescott IIRC was on some VERY exotic cooling too. I have seen some A64's 3GHz or highier on that type of cooling and they would put up a VERY good fight with the prescott essepcially since the P4 wasn't even stable enough to run benchmarks at that speed...

This is just waiting to start a flame war.
 
You are right that the pricing is close, but I think AMD still holds the edge. And the 6 ghz part would post, on exotic cooling, but was not stable, thus it doesn;t really count IMO. The last I heard was a FX-53 stable at 2.9. That makes it equivalent to over 5ghz in Preshot speeds. What do you use your PC for now ? What is the budget ? What do you have now ?
 
A64 by a wide margin. Why?

1) Price is a little lower
2) Performance is at least as good or better than comparable Intel P4's
3) The several pro-audio apps I intend to get run better with the A64
4) The above audio apps either crash or fail with Intel Hyperthreading
5) The above audio apps are also near completion on 64-bit extensions to make them BLAZING on 64-bit processors!

No contest! 😉
 
Originally posted by: bluemax
A64 by a wide margin. Why?

1) Price is a little lower
2) Performance is at least as good or better than comparable Intel P4's
3) The several pro-audio apps I intend to get run better with the A64
4) The above audio apps either crash or fail with Intel Hyperthreading
5) The above audio apps are also near completion on 64-bit extensions to make them BLAZING on 64-bit processors!

No contest! 😉
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Word :beer:
 
i have a prescott on it's way because i had the board and all already, but if i had to do it again i would have skipped doing the mb upgrade and just waited to buy an a64 chip/board instead. i love intel, but amd is getting the best of them in the gaming world these days.
 
Originally posted by: bluemax
A64 by a wide margin. Why?

1) Price is a little lower
2) Performance is at least as good or better than comparable Intel P4's
3) The several pro-audio apps I intend to get run better with the A64
4) The above audio apps either crash or fail with Intel Hyperthreading
5) The above audio apps are also near completion on 64-bit extensions to make them BLAZING on 64-bit processors!

No contest! 😉
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Affirmitive...........

 
A64 no contest. The only time P4's are good are for some encoding/decoding apps, and when you use exotic cooling and ramp the clockspeeds upwards of 4ghz. That 6ghz was stable in respect that it can post but cannot complete a run of 3dMark or game.

-Kevin
 
Since Winter is almost here, I prefer a Prescott for keeping my bedroom warm and toasty this season...

Yes, I have a A64 because I got it dirt cheap!
 
Originally posted by: bluemax
A64 by a wide margin. Why?

1) Price is a little lower
2) Performance is at least as good or better than comparable Intel P4's
3) The several pro-audio apps I intend to get run better with the A64
4) The above audio apps either crash or fail with Intel Hyperthreading
5) The above audio apps are also near completion on 64-bit extensions to make them BLAZING on 64-bit processors!

No contest! 😉
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:thumbsup:
 
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