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  1. 08-21-2001, 10:05 AM #1
    ab11_99
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    Pentium 4 or Athlon

    Just a question without looking at price what is better a Pentium 4 1.7Ghz or a Athlon 1.4Ghz ?
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  2. 08-21-2001, 10:18 AM #2
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    athlon is cheaper and in many cases faster unless you are using applications that have large sustained data transfers, such as mpeg encoding.
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  3. 08-21-2001, 06:13 PM #3
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    Athlon hands down.

    Benchmarks say that the 1.4Ghz Athlon is faster than the 1.7Ghz P4. P4 1.8k and the Athlon 1.4k are tied or something.
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  4. 08-21-2001, 06:24 PM #4
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    There is no simple answer, the massive memory bandwidth of the P4 give it an advantage in Quake3, multi-tasking and other memory intensive applications. The athlons still has a superior floating point unit which give it an edge in 3D graphics most of the time and it easily keeps up the pace in most apps at a much lower price tag. If you wanna knows what's best for you give what the cpu's going to do, be as specific as possible and we'll tell you what's faster.
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  5. 08-21-2001, 08:43 PM #5
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    P4 vs. T-Bird? Definetly a T-Bird!
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  6. 08-21-2001, 09:42 PM #6
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    I use my computer for games 30% of the time and surfing 40%, Video editing 20% and 10% for my universtiy work.

    I was thinking what about future use as more P4 programs come on the market it might start showing its real power and leave the Athlon behind, i would hate in a year to wake up that my Athlon starts proforming like **** because of P4 optimized programs not running on the T-Bird core.
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  7. 08-21-2001, 10:04 PM #7
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    P4 has superb quality memory, that can make a dfference(I dont believe speed will really differ with tha Athlon.)
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  8. 08-21-2001, 10:08 PM #8
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    AMD... need I say more?
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  9. 08-21-2001, 10:34 PM #9
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    P4 optimized apps? It didn't happen when intel brought out the MMX instructions, it barely happned for SSE. You think people will start now? I don't.

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  10. 08-21-2001, 11:04 PM #10
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    Unless you have a specific need for massive memory bandwidth (i.e. non-linear video editing or real-time multimedia creation), then I suggest the Athlon.

    BTW, I would opt for an AthlonMP personally, but that's my take on the situation. Costs are dropping fast, plus the addition of a SSE-compatible instruction set offers more flexiblity.

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