Whats faster?

Maximilian

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I googled this for ages and found absolutely no comparisons of the P3-S and an athlon XP of any speed. Apparently it beats the hell out of the thunderbird athlons but how well does it compare to the XP? I would assume the XP would be faster but by how much?
 

F1shF4t

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Probably if its cloaked faster it will be faster. The IPC of both of them should be roughly similar, if u go by the fact that the ipc of dothan and a64 is similar also.
I have no idea at what speeds the athlon xp's came in.
 

Maximilian

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Originally posted by: RussianSensation
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Videocard they used is 9700Pro.

Yes that was all i could find myself earlier. I guess noone was too bothered when the 1.4 came out because more interesting things were happening in p4/athlon land.

I was thinking on getting a better duallie system, i got one of those P3 1.4-S's for real cheap but i was also thinking about modding a couple of XP's.
 

RussianSensation

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Originally posted by: Soviet

Yes that was all i could find myself earlier. I guess noone was too bothered when the 1.4 came out because more interesting things were happening in p4/athlon land.

I think it might have been that P3 1.4 cost a bit more than cheapest XP which happened to be slightly faster? But that's just a wild guess.

Also check out this review: Athlon XP - Nov 5, 2001

XP1500+ (slowest XP) is often between P4 1.7 and 1.8 in general apps and in games even beats 1.9 and 2.0ghz. So I am not sure if PIII 1.4 would ever have been a contender.
 

Maximilian

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Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Originally posted by: Soviet

Yes that was all i could find myself earlier. I guess noone was too bothered when the 1.4 came out because more interesting things were happening in p4/athlon land.

I think it might have been that P3 1.4 cost a bit more than cheapest XP which happened to be slightly faster? But that's just a wild guess.

Also check out this review: Athlon XP - Nov 5, 2001

XP1500+ (slowest XP) is often between P4 1.7 and 1.8 in general apps and in games even beats 1.9 and 2.0ghz. So I am not sure if PIII 1.4 would ever have been a contender.

Yea, looks like it wouldve been mauled. Think i might just go with a couple of XP's then, i can ebay my 1.4S as ive seen them go for twice what i paid for it.

Thanks for the input.