Originally posted by: cmrmrc
i think the amd system would be slightly better...first of all since it has more ram...and second of all because it is running on nforce2 while the celeron d is running on a sis chipset i think...
I have a sis 741 chipset motherboard and i can tell the difference with an nforce 2 motherboard is huge...
Both Via and SiS chipsets are slower than Nforce2 with an Athlon.
However, SiS and Intel are pretty much equal in performance when using socket 478.
But, since he can't overclock the Celeron, then maybe the Athlon overclocked may benchmark higher in games, but not by a large margin.
In encoding and such, I think the Celeron would be ahead, but again, not by a large amount.
Also the polomino memory bandwidth is exactly at theoretical speed, cause its ddr400 dual chanell on a 266 mhz bus. I get 2085 mg/per sec in everest tests. Plus dual chanell memory operation with 3 modules, thats just sweet.
You will get no performance boost on socket A from running your memory asynch at a higher speed then your fsb. Don't trust a sythentic benchmark on that one.
On socket 478 you will get an improvement by running the memory at 400MHz DDR even if the cpu is at a 533MHz fsb.