Athlon XP 3.0 Ghz or Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz
 

Which processor would you chose and why?

I've never used an AMD CPU, but I do have a P4 3.0ghz

Would depend on the core/series. Care to be more specific?

And an athlon xp3000 is not 3.0ghz. ;)

I own P4 3.0ghz for about 12hours now :) Ran a benchmark. Compared my stats. And it seems that AMD 64 are much more better for games than Pentium is. Of course, one test doesn't mean a lot.

damn it, why did I write XP? :1orglaugh

I'm talking about athlon 64

AMD but not by much

im a amd man but between those two i would go with the pentium its newer and more powerful.

At this stage I would go for a dual core cpu for a work machine, no point going single core, unless it's also a gaming machine, for wich single core is still better.

I ran 3dmark benchmark. Then I compared my stats with other stats. I filtered results so that only PCs with Geforce 6600 GT card would be shown, and AMD Athlon 64 was on top for a few pages. Looks, like it's more gamer PC than Pentium.

Ok my bad, but it's still not 3.0ghz. :error

AMD is a poor man's P4.

a poor man with a faster computer

It's true, amd has the edge on games. But don't go trusting the 3dmark comparisons, most guys there are overclocked to death. :helpme

You're joking right? You can't compare a P4 and an AMD 64 by Ghz. That is like comparing cars by how big the gas tank is.

And second, AMD doesn't make a 3.0Ghz chip. The 64 and X2 goes as high as 2.40, and the FX range from 2.40-2.80.

And for the record AMD > Intel and day of the week.

uh...yeah..

AMD has always performed better.

Most people aren't going to see a difference. Can't go wrong either way.

AMD = Gaming
Intel = Work/Video processing

I'm enjoying my 3.8ghz P4 :1orglaugh

Which processor would be better for doing graphic design work? I know alot will depend on the graphics card, but on shear processor power alone, what would you go with?

For design work i'd go with the Pentiums.

For the same price AMD CPU will outperform Intel CPU, and that's for any application, not just games like some have suggested here...

It all depends what you want to do with it.

If I wanted a gaming station, I'd use an AMD cpu...

but for a video edition / workstation, I'l go toward P4s ;)

Doesnt matter how you look at it AMD may not have 3.0 ghz systems but they are far better then the p4 if your going for a desktop Athlon 64 bit 3000+ very nice and is way faster then the p4 3.0 on a server duel opteron smokes a duel xeon any day

My desktop is P4 3.2ghz my laptop is AMD 3000+ 64 1.8ghz. Ofcourse P4 3.2 is faster but I find 1.8 ghz AMD is faster than my old desktop P4 1.8 ghz.. it's more like it'd be P4's 2.4 ghz equivalent. Obviously AMD's 64 beats P4's 32 with equi speed anytime :thumbsup

Tip: Go read the basics of CPU architecture before you make comments about things you obviously don't know anything about.

Best bang for the buck.. AMD

I've been using AMD's in most of my PC's. Very pleased with Athlon performance.

personally, I've always been an Intel guy. I've had AMD before, didn't like the "feel" of it, if you can grasp what I'm trying to say.

i have a p4 3ghz works fine for me...

I can't.. you tried to "feel" up a fucking processor too? human flesh doesn't do it for you anymore huh? :Oh crap

athlon is good but if you compare the processor AMD64 3000 vs. pentium 4 3Ghz.
i dont know why its called 3000... its only 2Ghz(cause im using it right now) compare to P4 who is 3Ghz. P4.3 is still superior...

I'm more partial to Intel..

I was saying it's wrong to call the athlon 3000 a 3.0GHz chip.

The clock speed of the xp3000+ is 2.16GHz.

The clock speed of the 64 3000+ is 2.0GHz.

So STFU n00b.

Athlon any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

I've had them both at one point between work (when I wasn't doing this fulltime), and home. Even when work would have a faster chipset, the Pentiums simply did not perform as well.

As for home, I do a lot of things on the different computers from gaming, video processing, and about anything you can imagine. For all home PC's I prefer, and have had AMD's for all computers for past 8 years. Most recent CPU's a Athlon 64, and it's blazing compared to older AMD 3200.

I say AMD is just a better all around chip IMHO.

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i couldn't agree more! intel = any CPU consuming work, excluding gaming...

The reason Intel's outperform AMD's when is comes to work is the higher processor L1/L2/L3 cache's, but AMD's excel in FSB speed hence the better gaming. It's bang for buck when you're <$200 but when you go into the higher priced processors Intel is better bang for buck.

I prefer using AMD for gaming, but work I will use Intel and always will... until AMD bring up their cache's. :)

intel has faster fsb always has

And everytime a person brings this up, it's because he doesn't understand WHY it is like that.

AMD is my choice of CPU.

I have the 64 3000+ and it was totally worth the money.

The question noone seems to have asked here is, what OS? If it is Windows either should be ok. Even tho the AMD 64 has better memory management and is better for server's. If it is Linux I would only go with a AMD64. That way you can run full 64bit linux. You will notice a difference there. Especially if it is hosting.

And for those that compare Mhz stick with cropping your TGP images.

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/20...1215033811.htm

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