Which CPU \MB would be faster?

[DarkTXKnight]

I have 2 sets of spare parts that I an going to put into a machine for my brother. They are all older parts and I am wanting to know which set would be better for some light gaming. Currently he is using an Athlon 800mhz,768 MB ram and a GF3Ti200 to play some UT2004 with us. I have the following parts collecting dust that I want to give him:

Combo 1: Athlon 1.2 MHZ mobile on an ECS board and 512 PC133 SDRAM

Combo 2: Pentium 1.3 MHZ socket 423 on a generic Emachines MB and 512 MB PC800 RDRAM

I will yank the GF3 and use it in one of these but which one is faster??? and why?

Thanks,

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Last time I was comparing processors that "old", the AMD had the edge. Mine was a Thunderbird 1.33 MHz (Oh, shucks! 1.33 GHz!), and a few months after I got it in 2001, AMD revamped their naming structure to the NextGen style, and the same CPU was renamed to an XP 1500 (maybe 1600?), meaning it was as fast as a Pentium running 1.5 GHz. (Well, I did have the Pentium corrected with the "G" showing in *its* speed measurement.)

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: DarkTXKnight
I have 2 sets of spare parts that I an going to put into a machine for my brother. They are all older parts and I am wanting to know which set would be better for some light gaming. Currently he is using an Athlon 800mhz,768 MB ram and a GF3Ti200 to play some UT2004 with us. I have the following parts collecting dust that I want to give him:

Combo 1: Athlon 1.2 MHZ mobile on an ECS board and 512 PC133 SDRAM

Combo 2: Pentium 1.3 MHZ socket 423 on a generic Emachines MB and 512 MB PC800 RDRAM

I will yank the GF3 and use it in one of these but which one is faster??? and why?

Thanks,

athlon is faster.. but... i dont know what you can do with 1.2 MHZ computer...
perhaps you might want to move into Ghz club...

 

[DarkTXKnight]

hardy har har I meant Ghz on those.... so how much fast is that mobile 1.2 than the 800mhz thats already in there?

 

[dennisjai215]

well if you do the math 800/1200 = 2/3 so about 1/3 faster?

 

[Spikesoldier]

sorry but god or your brother will never forgive you if you give him combo #2

 

[Spikesoldier]

Originally posted by: dennisjai215
well if you do the math 800/1200 = 2/3 so about 1/3 faster?

wow check your math

its actually 50% gain in clock speed (faster)

1200/800

3/2

150% of 800 is 1200

 

[DarkTXKnight]

well good either way it should be noticeable and thats what I wanted to see

 

[Duvie]

Well back in its day the 1.2ghz tbird held its own against the 1.4-1.5ghz p4 on the best rambus boards...Should be no issue the tbird will be faster in an overall of uses type of way. The 423 willamettes were horrible..I think a p3 1.13ghz or 1ghz would beat the 1.3ghz p4....

 

[stratman]

I'm running a 1ghz athlon, and a 64 meg 3D prophet 4500 (kyro II chipset), and it runs CS 1.6 and castle wolfenstein: ET pretty well...
but can a 1.2 ghz computer really run UT:2k4?

Let us know once you set it up

Oh, and you can probably overclock the athlon mobile somewhat, without much risk. My athlon proc could probably make it to 1.1-1.4 ghz (I have a good stepping, but a horrible PSU -- I can't usually post even when booting up at stock speeds (!) LOL) but I'm running it at 1050 mgz now. My temp right now is 45, surfing teh web, running F@H, and chatting.

I have a ECS mobo too, the K7S5A pro, is that the one you're talking about?

Old school goodness

 

[DarkTXKnight]

yep that's the board, though that 800 Mhz Athlon is sitting in an Epox 8KTA3 which in my opinion is one of the best of the older boards. I might just pop out his old CPU and put in this one and call it a day. Believe it or not his athlon + the gf3Ti200 and just a bit of the eye candy turned down does UT2004 pretty well. That setup also has 512 MB of PC133 RAM. The Epox board is supposed to handle up to a 1.4 Tbird processor so I was basically hoping to max his hardware out and when he feels the need to get a new computer he can pass this stuff on as a whole to his daughters