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Originally Posted by Caspar
OK, I'm going to buy a new cpu and need to find some quality benchmarks and information comparing these new AMD chips vs P4, and also whether to wait for Prescott?
Which one to buy?
1. AMD Opteron 240 64Bit CPU Retail inc fan [3 yr.warr.] 940pin
priced at £176.25
2. AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 64 bit Retail inc.fan 2000MHz [3 yr.warr.] 754pin
priced at £204.44
(or even the 3000+ version for £162.15 )
3. Intel® Pentium ® 4 2.8GHz [800MHz] 512Kcache Retail inc.Fan [3 year warranty]
priced at £155.69
Prices quoted from Microdirect.co.uk on 260104
What do you think? |
The 64bit chips are far superier to the current p4's however amd are planning a 64bit 4000+ chip for the end of this year along with a slightly slower 3700+. By this time the prescott and newcastle chips will have been on the market for a little while and full benchmark tests and bug tests will be available so i would get an xp chip for the time being and wait for the markets to settle and the software to catch up if i were you.
I currently have a barton xp 2800+ and would like to upgrade myself but there really isn't that much between the chips at the moment in my opinion, i mean lets face it there isn't anything i can't do with todays software that others can. The days of software being ahead of the hardware are long gone and the roles have been reversed so until the software catches up why waste your money.
Regards
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