Re: AMD's Athlon64 or Intel's P4?

From: Michael Starke (mikestarke_remove__at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:47:37 GMT

"JK" <JK9821@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
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> > Hello. I am planning to upgrade my computer system in a few weeks. I am
> > going to replace its motherboard, CPU, and memory. You can view my
> > current primary/gaming system on
> > http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/computers.txt ...
> >
> > I am planning to keep all my old parts except sound card, RAM, CPU, and
> > motherboard. Now, the question is which CPU and which motherboard (was
> > an ASUS person in the past) do I want to get. From brief researches from
> > reading benchmarks, AMD Athlon64 seems like a good choice for a gaming
> > system. I read that Intel P4 CPUs does a better job with video stuff
> > which I rarely do (mostly cropping and encoding with DivX).
> >
> > Also, I plan to replace my old SB Live! Platinum (without its LiveDrive)
> > to an Audigy2 (good EAX) or maybe a M-Audio Revolutions (probably not
> > due to weak EAX emulation).
> >
> > Also, I will be installing Debian with Windows XP Pro to replace Red Hat
> > Linux 7.2. Yes, I do game in Linux with old games like Q3A, RTCW, ET,
> > etc.
> >
> > Mainly, this upgrade is for gaming. The newest games are starting to
show
> > my system's age like DOOM 3,
>
> Since you mentioned Doom 3, I thought you would like to see this.
>
> http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149&p=7

After carefully examining the numbers at the above link I have a few
observations.

First there is a huge price step up from the AMD Athlon 64 3000 + at
$205.00
to the next Athlon chip tested, the 3500 + at $347.00 . That's over a
hundred bucks for only 7 FPS increase
at 1280 X 1024 resolution. With that in mind, I might choose the cheaper AMD
chip as being
a good performance/cost option , but I'd still consider one of the P IV
based combos
in that price range depending on test results with other games, including
those still to be tested after
release, like HL2, for instance.

Also, thanks to the competition from AMD, Intel prices have dropped 25%.
That has yet to be reflected at retail level, but in the coming weeks it
should start to show up.

FWIW, my P-IV 3.0Ghz based system using a Radeon 9800 pro
gets a steady 60 FPS according to the timedemo I just ran.

mjs

http://www.soundclick.com/theageofreason

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