Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 13:40:15 05/06/02
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On May 06, 2002 at 14:39:13, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On May 06, 2002 at 12:53:12, Keith Ian Price wrote: > >>On May 06, 2002 at 11:05:38, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>On May 06, 2002 at 10:45:21, Dan Andersson wrote: >>> >>>>Good for them. But with the current speed of Athlon XP we will have to see a >>>>2.9GHz P4 before even considering a switch for chess programs and FEA. >>>> >>>>MvH Dan Andersson >>> >>>i doubt it. someone here had posted the tiger and fritz mark on a pentium 4 >>>northwood, about 10 days back(i forget the name of the poster, perhaps if he >>>reads this he can respond)and it was identical to the benchmarks which others >>>had posted of an athlon xp at 1600MHZ. This means that a pentium4 2.4 would >>>atleast run as fast as athlon xp 1.73(the fastest currently available) and a >>>pentium 2.53 would woud run somewhere between an athlonxp 1.83-1.87 9probably >>>the latter in view of a faster FSB, faster memory and the superior scaling of a >>>P4 at higher speeds as compared to an athlon xp. >>> >>>I greatly fear that amd have taken their eye of the ball and will forever be >>>playing catchup, one lap behind >>> >>>rajen >> >>That was me. My 2.2 Ghz P4 is also used for rendering video, a task at which it >>blows the doors off any AMD processor so far, which is why I got it, rather than >>an AMD. The 2 ELO increase I could expect from the AMD 2100+ system over mine >>wasn't enough of an incentive to render video at 75% of the speed. That and the >>fact that a similarly equipped AMD system from HP or Compaq would have cost 50% >>more. 60% if I tried to put one together myself at the time. Gateway is giving >>away their high-end models to try and raise market share, so I was happy to >>help. >> >>kp > >Since when has a P4 blown the doors off a properly configured AthlonXP in >anything, especially video encoding & raytracing? Email me. Name the test and we >can compare results.. You're right. The P4 2.2 is only 9% faster than the XP2000+ on MPEG-1 and Mpeg-2. At the time, I was comparing the Athlon 2000+ vs. P4 2.2 at Tom's hardware and I remembered a test which was a "blows the doors off" test, it must have been this one for 3d rendering: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020107/p42200-15.html In any case, I went for the Gateway because of the value for money, and the fact that until the hammers come, there will only be a slight ELO advantage for the Athlon. I may buy a couple hammers to run chess programs on. Until then, my P4 does well enough to do analysis... kp
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