Poll: I can't decide: Pentium 4 or Athlon

[ECzEnbOi]

i can't decide whether to get a Pentium 4 processor or an Athlon. P4 is more expensive but the speed of the fsb is doubled. However, Athlon is cheaper and right up there with the pentium4. It conpensates with a bunch of cache memory. I dont hab much money (bout $1000). What to do! What to do! Help me out with some feedback pleaze.

 

[bacillus]

<< I dont hab much money >>


even more reason for getting an AMD based system!

 

[Popoco]

I?m building my self a new system with an AMD 1.4
You can see the spec?s Here for around $880
The Epox Mobo has a built in sound card so all in all you still have $220 for a viedo card or a lot more if you don?t get the aluminum case.

 

[Scouzer]

Well since it takes a P4 1.8ghz to beat an AMD Athlon 1.4ghz, and you only have $1000 for the best system possible, the Athlon is the obvious winner.

 

[damocles]

If money is an issue go for AMD.

If possible go for a DDR solution as the price difference isn't great and DDR has more potential.

If money is seriously tight even a 1GHz Tbird is a very fast processor. Make sure you get a good heatsink and that your case/power supply are reasonable (you would need to check this with a P4 also)

In a couple of weeks Intels prices will drop heaps and there will be a new cheaper P4 platform (albeit slower) however AMD will still be better if you have limited funds .

Have a search of the forums, the benefits of each processor has been discussed ad nauseum

 

[insane]

Go p4 it RULEZ!!
and does have good cores

 

[Scouzer]

<<

In a couple of weeks Intels prices will drop heaps and there will be a new cheaper P4 platform (albeit slower) however AMD will still be better if you have limited funds .

>>



Slower? Itanium? Thats not a home user CPU. If you mean the Northwood, by all indications it should be much faster!

 

[Scouzer]

<< Go p4 it RULEZ!!
and does have good cores >>



I think the price difference isn't worth a little metal cap over the core.

 

[insane]

Is that your only arguement?: price?

 

[damocles]

When i meant P4 platform i meant 478pin boards for Brookdale and Northwood as well as Via's P4x.

Insane- . I dont have much money (bout $1000). With that budget he can get an AMD system that will perform much better in general than a P4 system at the same price. I like P4s very much but on that budget AMD gets more for your $$

 

[Zebo]

<< Is that your only arguement?: price? >>



No price and performance.

Look at any recommend buyers guide done by reputable sites like this one. They all recommend an AMD based system. Value or highend!

 

[insane]

Mate that enouh as the p4 1.5Ghz S478 will cost around $140 and the motherboard is also around $140. So it's pretty much afforable.

 

[damocles]

Mate that enouh as the p4 1.5Ghz S478 will cost around $140 and the motherboard is also around $140. So it's pretty much afforable

For that price you could get a 1.4GHz Tbird on an Epox DDR board (with change)which would toast that particular P4 in many more benchmarks than it would lose (In fact you could probably get 256Megs of crucial ram also).

 

[insane]

Well how come AMD ownz 25% of the market and yet 80% of all the problems in the Motherboard related are from AMD??
So you bad AMD really is only TROUBLES trust me i am using a AMD systems as we speak but it sucks. When Abit THII-7 is avaible here i am out of the SUCKAGE AMD platform

 

[insane]

Yesterday Intel P4 1.8Ghz devistated the Athlon 1.2MP (also in DUAL config)

Even IBM realized that AMD suck coz they stopped shipping AMD based systems. Tiny also went back to intel all because INTEL OWNZ

 

[bacillus]

oh dear, the flame war seems to be rekindling itself! :Q

 

[damocles]

Well how come AMD ownz 25% of the market and yet 80% of all the problems in the Motherboard related are from AMD??

And you can prove that how? In particular the AMD 760s are very stable.


Yesterday Intel P4 1.8Ghz devistated the Athlon 1.2MP (also in DUAL config)
Where? Certainly that's not how Anand seems to see it. Anyway we are talking about a performance for someone on a budget not server configurations

In Anand's words

Less than a month ago Intel announced their new Xeon processor and today AMD takes away any reason to purchase that very platform. Intel can continue this game of pretending that AMD isn't a threat, but the truth of the matter is that they are and they happen to be a very big one.

link

 

[insane]

Northwood with PC1066 RIMM will destory anything in sight ETA in few months
Then AMD will be really scared

 

[damocles]

I also have great hopes for Northwood also although AMD has nForce in it's future to possibly liven things up. If Northwood meets all expectations then i will probably buy one. However i doubt ECzEnbOi will want to wait that long and Northwood will not be a budget processor.

 

[Zebo]

<< Well how come AMD ownz 25% of the market and yet 80% of all the problems in the Motherboard related are from AMD??
So you bad AMD really is only TROUBLES trust me i am using a AMD systems as we speak but it sucks. When Abit THII-7 is avaible here i am out of the SUCKAGE AMD platform >>



First your numbers bogus. If and I say IF 80% of the probelms you see hear are related tO AMD's then I am sure 80% of the forum users are using AMD's because they were smart enough to follow a professionals (Anands) recommendation and purchase them. Why because they offer equal or better performance for less money.


Do you even read the reveiws, benchamarks etc.?? Your experiance is unfortuante but I can say the same for past celeron and PII systems as well. But the bottom line is AMD is still a much better value which is why it's recommended over the intel platform by most reveiwers

 

[insane]

IF AMD is so great and such a good value why is everybody dumping them??

IBM dumps AMD
Tiny dumps AMD
Dell stayed away from AMD (world's leading pc manufacturer)
I am also gonna dump AMD

why? plain simple it is not up to my standart. My soundcard is not working properly under Win2k. My little brother has a p2 400 and everything work WONDERFULL. AMD is nothing but trouble HEAT, cracked cores (i can start a whole funeral for the cores), instability, incompatible (SB Live) nothing but troubles

 

[Czar]

Anyone have this flashback feeling

insane = GUTB

 

[A2KLAU]

AMD System if you are short of cash cause then it will even out the system alot.. i.e more of them money can be issued out to other equipment like AGP card, or larger HDD and that.. where as the Intel one is more expensive meaning some of the money will be complimised.. (sp?! )

And thats my contribution..

Albert.

 

[MCS]

The AMD system will be more upgradable in the future, is cheaper, faster than a P4 clock for clock by over 300Mhz, uses cheaper memory and does not throttle itself down to the speed of a 486 when it gets a bit hot.

 

[insane]

No i ain't but i wanna be just like him
He is my big role model, also AMDMeltdown from THG forum is also cool

Thank you for comparing me with GUTB yeah i am gonna party now