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adamg
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I just 3Dmark03'ed my system and i went onto the compare website. looking around a bit i found people with Pentium 4's at like 4300mhz! is it really possible to overclock (i assume a 3.06) to 4.2?
Originally posted by LeeJend
AMD chips use more complex instructions than the Intel chips. That means that in general (graphics, number crunching) the Athlon can do more per clock cycle than the Pentium. The exception is in memory intensive tasks like compressing files or doing MP3s, there the faster clock systems in the pentiums win.
The second speed factor is FSB (outside the chip speed transfers). Intel has a strong lead here and AMD is not catching up even based on the latest rumors.
The advantage is about $100 in favor of the athlons for a given capability. AMD rates their slower clocked chips using a benchmark that tests many different tasks and then equates the result to the intel clock speeds. AMD XP3000 is about the same as an Intel 3.06 gHzig chip in most applications.
The price performance curve right now makes the AMD Barton core XP2500 the best buy, especially if you can over clcok it a few hundred points.
Be careful overclcoking AMD chips. Intel chips have thermal protection built in and are near impossible to fry. An AMD chip depends on overheat protection on the motherboard and how good the protection is varies by MB maker. ASUS has the best protection the last I saw.
Originally posted by Sazar
but on the whole the amd systems are cheaper (ie using ddr... top performing intel systems use RDRAM...)