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Subject: Re: Athlon 64 or Intel P4 3.2 EE: which ?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 18:23:25 12/09/03

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On December 09, 2003 at 12:38:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 08, 2003 at 19:07:09, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On December 08, 2003 at 16:25:49, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>
>>>On December 08, 2003 at 14:32:15, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 08, 2003 at 13:08:41, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 08, 2003 at 12:55:36, Leen Ammeraal wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I saw the Athlon 64 based
>>>>>>"PC Vobis Power 64 3200+ XD" (euro 1299).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>How does this compare with an Intel P4 3.2 EE ?
>>>>>>Which would you prefer for chess?
>>>>>>Leen
>>>>>
>>>>>According to http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/CCAM/a64fx_51_launch.shtml, the
>>>>>3.2EE would be faster.
>>>>
>>>>Shame they only tested (except for UT2k3) applications where the P4 does decent.
>>>>As I said in a previous post.. where is DVD2AVI (where an Athlon does best for
>>>>Mpeg encoding). It is much faster than XMpeg for me (on my XP). Also, in Povray
>>>>(a renderer a normal person would use, rather than drop $4000 for one of the
>>>>ones they use to test) the Athlon is a good 50%+ faster than the P4. In 64bit
>>>>mode it is something like 3 times faster. The Athlon FX is even faster than the
>>>>XP. Expecially for chess, which I believe what he was asking about in the first
>>>>place.
>>>
>>>Guess which system is the fastest for Povray?
>>>
>>>http://www.haveland.com/index.htm?povbench/index.php
>>>
>>>:-)
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Eugene
>>
>>Holy..and that's the 1.0Ghz I2.  A sadly, a 1.4GHz I2 is only $500 more than a
>>3.2EE.  :/
>>
>>Man, that 1.0Ghz I2 is smoking...
>
>
>I've said that before.  It is _not_ a bad processor.  It's main problem is
>that it is way "different".  Opteron is X86 instruction set on steroids.
>Itanium is X86 instruction set on LSD.
>
>:)

Ok, so it's not smoking.  It's tripping.  :D



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