Questions AMD/Intel?

[cobrasvt]

Okay, here is the skinny. My MSI KT266-Pro took a crap last week. I have been running a T'bird 1.2 @1.4 on there for the last year with no complaints! I have since swapped my wife's Duron 600 @ 900 with my 1.2. I am in the process of deciding what I should get next. The XP 2000+ is way off in the price range, and so is the Northbrooks above 2.0A. I think I have narrowed it down to either a XP1800+/1900+, or a P4 1.8A with hopes of running it at 2.4. I know with my old system, my room was ALWAYS hot with both my wife's system and my system running (been noticably cooler in here since my system went down!). Say if the P4 1.8A wouldn't overclock and I had to run it at default speeds, how would that compare to the Athlon 1800+ or 1900+? It seems all the reviews out there only compare the flagship processors against each other (2.2 vs. 2000+). How hot are the 1800+/1900+ running not overclocked? The P4 1.8A's at 2.4 are running under 45 degrees under load. And last, I know the 1800+ can be had for under $160, the 1900+ for under $220 as well as the P4 1.8A. Whats a better investment though?

 

[Boonesmi]

the heat output is very comparable.... meaning a athlonxp 1700+ and a pent4 1700+ will be pretty close as far as how much heat is generated, if i remember right the p4 is a little higher

 

[christoph83]

The northwoods are very cool under full load and thats only with the retail fan they provide you. Spend 20 bucks on an CPU fan for it ,and it will run much cooler and should run coolor than an XP. Northwood requires less voltage and is a smaller die size. www.gamepc.com has a 2ghz northwood overclocked to 2.5ghz and it ran only 43C full load.

 

[lorlabnew]

Agree with the point about new Intels low temperature.

Just bought and built system with Northwood 1.6GHz yesterday; the "processor zone temperature" have around 28 C under normal conditions; under full CPU load /100%/ like with MSFS 2002 running in the background window it will raise to 38 C. My room has around 21 C....