2 P3 at 840-952 vs 1 Athlon at ~1.3-1.5Ghz

[Noriaki]

Dual P3s on BX at 840-952 (750 - 850 at 112FSB)

or a single Athlon at 1.3-1.5Ghz...

What do you think will have more juice in the next 12 months?

Do you think that games and stuff will start to use dual CPUs at all?

For workstation type apps the P3s would probably have the advantage I'd say right?

What do you think?

 

[rlism]

haha, and i thought you were set on the dual bx...

i like the duallie, mebbe u should just wait and get dual athlons

best of both worlds.

 

[Noriaki]

I'm very close to Dual BX

Not 100% yet though.

I saw a Tyan Tiger100 revF for $100US + shipping...so if I can get that...chances are good for the Dual BX

Plus I don't really like AMD or Via chipsets...I much prefer the good ol' BX...

I think that Dual Athlons are a ways off....
AMD760 still isn't really out in large quantities, let alone 760MP...and then they have to perfect it...I dunno...

 

[Noriaki]

up you go!

 

[A2KLAU]

I would go for Dual Athlons! Thats the way forward and will be a super computer when it comes to RC5 or something along thsoe lines. I should wait a little bit longer and see how everything goes. But best bet is Dual Athlons!

Albert.

 

[Noriaki]

Dual Athlons is a long time away, plus I can't use SDRAM on an AMD760MP board.

But if a decently priced AMD760MP board comes out soon, and DDR SDRAM comes down in price I'll consider it.

 

[littleprince]

if you get the dualie, i hope you have software that can take advantage of it...

me don't think a lot of games are gonna support it...
they have enough to worrie about, with dx8, and programable t&l.

were still waiting for games that support dual monitors too...
...we were all hoping for those for a while too

 

[codehack2]

I'm not a big fan of the intel dual CPU architecture.. shared bus between processors and chipset just blows. I'd go for the Athlon myself.. get a cheap kt133a board now & pick up another 1.3 and a dually board when they are available.

CH2

 

[TravisBickle]

Noriaki, is there any hardware you haven't considered?
according to uncle Tom, you're better off with a faster video card than a faster CPU (PIII and Athlon scaling analysis)

 

[superbaby]

I think Noriaki has very little resistence to marketing hype

 

[Noriaki]

<< according to uncle Tom, you're better off with a faster video card than a faster CPU (PIII and Athlon scaling analysis) >>

Yeah but I can't afford a better video card, GeForce3 is a bit on the high side for me I don't want a GF2...sure it'll give me higher frame rates than my 5500...but it doesn't really have that much feature wise...

I'm waiting for either the GF3 to drop in price, or for a &quot;GF3-MX&quot;



<< Noriaki, is there any hardware you haven't considered? >>

Well..sure lots. Right now I'm trying to find a speaker system for myself, trying to decide if I want to upgrade my CPU/mobo, and building a workstation for someone.

This thread is for the 3rd part.

 

[nortexoid]

i'd get the single proc...cheaper and generally faster, even taking into account apps that utilize SMP (since they don't do it 100% efficiently/effectively...

 

[Remnant2]

If the prices are roughly the same, I'd go with the Tbird. It will clean up over your dual 800 setup in single-threaded apps, which is most of them. The only thing that a dual 800 setup would probably beat a Tbird 1300+ in is perhaps some photoshop filters or other specific tasks that have specific SMP support.

I think dual processor rigs are going to have a recession for most of this year until the 760MP starts coming out in cheap configurations. A P3 at this point gives you a pretty small upgrade path, and neither the Athlon or the P4 currently offer SMP support.

 

[seewhy]

I think dual at ~850 will probably give you better performance. There are not many application that can take advantage of 850+ cpu power, but if you use lots applications at once, the dual cpu setup can speed things up given you use SMP capable OS.

So basically if you run single application, the difference between 850 cpu and 1.3g cpu may not be that big. But if you run mulitple app, dual is better. But of course if you only run one app at a time, there is no point getting dual unless you have SMP capable apps.

I am running celron 366@550 right now with my tiger 100 Rev F. and is thinking of upgrading too. Initially I was thinking of just getting two 850, but after looking at the Tyan K7 (760MP) board.....just have to have that!!! Imagine dual 1.5 Palomino in 3~4 month...drool!! (Hopefully price come down a bit, or else might get killed by wife!!)

 

[RC5Bri]

You probably wouldn't notice much of a difference. I would go with the system that is cheaper. But, as someone mentioned earlier a dual board does limit your options later on. I would recommend getting the Athlon!

 

[Modus]

Even in SMP-aware applications, dual P3/900's would have a hard time matching a single Athlon 1.33 GHz. The best SMP optimizations in real world code typically yield no more than 30-50% gain from a second processor. That puts a Dual P3/900 at 1.35 GHz in the best of times -- hardly able to match the Athlon. Under any other non-SMP application, the Athlon will blow away the dual BX system.

Not only that, but if you bought everything new, the Athlon setup would be cheaper.

Modus