What combo is faster

[bluestrobe]

Due to recent upgrades I need to trim the herd and have the following combo's on the chopping block.

2.66mhz P4 Northwood
512MBx2 Ram (different brands)
Asus P4B533
ATI Sapphire X700

Or

AMD XP3000 Barton
512MBx2 (forgot the brand, dual channel matched set)
Abit NF7-S
ATI Sapphire X700

My wife currently uses the P4 combo and I am thinking of sticking the AMD combo in her computer if the speed/performance offset it worth it. The left over combo will probably be sold off. Opinions?

 

[Kartajan]

the P4 is probably a bit faster; just keep the better RAM on the one you keep..

 

[LOUISSSSS]

chuck both and get one =]

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

They're your systems, so you can just benchmark them, yourself. Here are some older benchmarks pitting each CPU against eachother (as well as several others). As you can see, Kartajan's observation is correct: The P4 2.66 is slightly faster overall than the Barton 3000+.

Perhaps a bigger concern, though, is how much money you can get for each. The P4 is faster, but if you can get more money for it than the Barton I might still sell it--depending of course on how big the difference is. Why don't you put up everything for sale and see what gets the best offer?

 

[BladeVenom]

The XP 3000 is faster in most applications. benchmarks

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
chuck both and get one =]

Thanks for the help. If I wanted to "chuck" both, I would have done it.

Originally posted by: hurtstotalktoyou
They're your systems, so you can just benchmark them, yourself. Here are some older benchmarks pitting each CPU against eachother (as well as several others). As you can see, Kartajan's observation is correct: The P4 2.66 is slightly faster overall than the Barton 3000+.

Perhaps a bigger concern, though, is how much money you can get for each. The P4 is faster, but if you can get more money for it than the Barton I might still sell it--depending of course on how big the difference is. Why don't you put up everything for sale and see what gets the best offer?

I need one of them to stay online although it could be removed for a format/OS install. I can't wait for the average 2-3 weeks for sale/find/buy of other parts to make a newer unit.

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
The XP 3000 is faster in most applications. benchmarks

Interesting, and the P4 was even running on a DRAM system.

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Originally posted by: bluestrobe

Originally posted by: hurtstotalktoyou
They're your systems, so you can just benchmark them, yourself. Here are some older benchmarks pitting each CPU against eachother (as well as several others). As you can see, Kartajan's observation is correct: The P4 2.66 is slightly faster overall than the Barton 3000+.

Perhaps a bigger concern, though, is how much money you can get for each. The P4 is faster, but if you can get more money for it than the Barton I might still sell it--depending of course on how big the difference is. Why don't you put up everything for sale and see what gets the best offer?

I need one of them to stay online although it could be removed for a format/OS install. I can't wait for the average 2-3 weeks for sale/find/buy of other parts to make a newer unit.

I'm not suggesting you do.

Good luck with the sale.

 

[DSF]

I dunno, seems to me a 2.66MHz PC would pretty slow.

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Originally posted by: DSF
I dunno, seems to me a 2.66MHz PC would pretty slow.

True. You'd need at least 8MHz to run Windows XP.