I was a diehard AMD fan for the longest time, I still am. Although while I was an AMD fan, I really thought the P4 sucked, which LETS FACE IT...at its first release the P4 did suck.
my last AMD piece was a Athlon XP 1900+ oced to 2100+ speed on a Epox 8k3a+. It was nice, I was running it around 400mhz FSB with memory at 400mhz also...the system was fast. I had the AX-7 on it with a 80mm Delta fan...thing was loud and blew tons of air around in that case lol.
I figured it was time for a uprgrade, started lookin into P4 overclockin and was amazed to see the 1.6a and 1.8a's sitting such high clocks.
Then it was time for price comparison lol! a 2700+ averages around 250-300$, P4 1.8A averaged around 140$ even though your not garunteed 2.7ghz with that P4, I still took a shot.
It was definatly worth the money, and I am using the same ram I Was with my athlon in the P4 system, its running flawless.
Northwood 1.8A@2.7ghz, 600mhz FSB, 400mhz memory, 1.8V according to BIOS, dont know true voltage. Its running on EPOX's 4PEA+ board, I love this board!. Idle temp around 40C and max usage temp is around 46-48, Not bad for that voltage. I bought that Vantec THD fan for it. It runs nice and quiet compared to my AX-7 LOL.
my score in 3dmark2001 went up another 1300points from my athlon system.
my pcmark2k2 scores went up massively, and the memory score increased a lot, I am guessing thats due to the P4's 512kb lvl 2 cache.
games perform quite better also.
Overall, I never thought Id make the switch, but for the money and the OC it got me, I am really happy...hehe
pretty much the point of this post.
my last AMD piece was a Athlon XP 1900+ oced to 2100+ speed on a Epox 8k3a+. It was nice, I was running it around 400mhz FSB with memory at 400mhz also...the system was fast. I had the AX-7 on it with a 80mm Delta fan...thing was loud and blew tons of air around in that case lol.
I figured it was time for a uprgrade, started lookin into P4 overclockin and was amazed to see the 1.6a and 1.8a's sitting such high clocks.
Then it was time for price comparison lol! a 2700+ averages around 250-300$, P4 1.8A averaged around 140$ even though your not garunteed 2.7ghz with that P4, I still took a shot.
It was definatly worth the money, and I am using the same ram I Was with my athlon in the P4 system, its running flawless.
Northwood 1.8A@2.7ghz, 600mhz FSB, 400mhz memory, 1.8V according to BIOS, dont know true voltage. Its running on EPOX's 4PEA+ board, I love this board!. Idle temp around 40C and max usage temp is around 46-48, Not bad for that voltage. I bought that Vantec THD fan for it. It runs nice and quiet compared to my AX-7 LOL.
my score in 3dmark2001 went up another 1300points from my athlon system.
my pcmark2k2 scores went up massively, and the memory score increased a lot, I am guessing thats due to the P4's 512kb lvl 2 cache.
games perform quite better also.
Overall, I never thought Id make the switch, but for the money and the OC it got me, I am really happy...hehe
pretty much the point of this post.