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dj_mikey_k

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5th Apr 04 at 11:55

idears please

Demo

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5th Apr 04 at 11:56

athlon all the way.
dont become an intel bitch

SetH

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5th Apr 04 at 11:59

I`d rather be an intel biach then an athlon bender.

l33t corsa

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5th Apr 04 at 12:10

Screw the Prescott. You need a vacuum cleaner of a heatsink to cool it.

[Edited on 05-04-2004 by l33t corsa]

PaulW

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5th Apr 04 at 12:11

AMD...

I'd get the A64 3400+ and Asus K8V. If overclocked by 7% is faster than a stock FX51, but whether you get mobile version or desktop version is up to you. (if you want to OC it, best with the mobile chip, as it runs at a lower core voltage & is multiplier unlocked unlike the regular desktop chip).

The K8V is a great board too, but flash it to the 1005 BIOS, as then RAM adjustments are VERY comprehensive, so even better to tweak! It has a VIA SATA controller, and a Promise SATA controller, and 2x IDE controllers, 8x USB 2.0, 2x Firewire, Gigabit LAN, and more features than you can shake a stick at. Looks cool too. Passive northbridge cooling, so quiet as well.

PaulW

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5th Apr 04 at 12:12

But I'll be quite happy with my 32bit AMD system once its built

Super_si

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5th Apr 04 at 12:37

Prescott rapes the AMD

Noonster

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5th Apr 04 at 12:41

Intel Pentium 4 "Prescott" 3.2Ghz

Better for overclocking

Nismo

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5th Apr 04 at 12:42

Acorn

Noonster

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5th Apr 04 at 12:43

@ nismo

Mac g5 ?

PaulW

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5th Apr 04 at 12:49

quote:
Originally posted by Super_si
Prescott rapes the AMD

not quite

were talking the Athlon 64 here!

Even the P4-Extreme Edition is par-level to the A64 in most tests, AMD beats it with gaming, P4-EE 'just' beats the A64 in stuff like Adobe Photoshop & other things which utilise SSE2...

But even though the P4-EE is based on the Northwood core, the Prescott 3.2 is slower than the P4-EE, and so that also means its slower than the A64.

PaulW

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5th Apr 04 at 12:54

Thats the P4-Extreme Edition versus Athlon 64-FX51...

tbh I'd choose the AMD over Intel anyday. I used to be an Intel junky, but there more bothered about higher clock speeds rather than MIPS... which means a 3.2ghz chip (intel) performs about the same as a 2.2GHz chip.

Oh, and as for Intels being easier to overclock than AMD's... there about the same each way, but with AMD chips, you get a better performance boost per MHz compared to intel chips

[Edited on 05-04-2004 by PaulW]

Shelly

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