thinking of getting athlon 64.. but...

[BenW]

well, you could have left it off seeing that you are an "intel boy"!

[Michael]

Nice user title myth :|

[myth]

Why, thank you!

[BUFF]

PCMark is known to be Intel biased too & memory bandwidth figures on their own mean very little - it's the ability to use that bandwidth that counts.
Even an Athlon XP will beat a P4 on typical office apps but i will give that the P4 is probably better for the graphics particularly if she uses a version of Photoshop that can use hyper-threading.

[oralpain]

The benchmarks listed by myth are nearly totaly worthless. Performance in REAL applications would acctually mean something, but not in PCMark or 3DMark.

I'm on my 4th Athlon 64 and am very impressed with the performance, especailly in games. However an equally priced Pentium 4 will likely do better in photoshop and video.

Most P4 Cs and Es overclock quite well, though the presscots will useually need very good cooling to do it. The newer CG revision A64s (look for AX or AR modles, AP is the old C0 core) can also overclock well. My mobile A64 2800+ is stable at 2.53Ghz on good air cooling, thats nearly a 40% OC. My 3000+ is using the stock AMD heatsink and can run fine with a respectable 20% OC.

Your girlfriend would probably be better off with a hyperthreading P4. It should be the best value for the type of work she is into.

[Snow-Munki]

lol was researching athlon 64's all day today !

what intel rig would you suggest on a fairly small budget ? as i know very little about them

[BenW]

2.8Ghz 800FSB Hyperthreading CPU
Asus P4P800 (e-deluxe)

[myth]

2.8Ghz 800FSB Hyperthreading CPU
Asus P4P800 (e-deluxe)

That mobo is not very cheap..... However it is good! I my self prefer the Abit IC7 series

[Snow-Munki]

ok... finally final final going to get this i think after all the messing around

AMD Athlon 64 3000 £109
Epox 8kda3j £67
Consair Value pc3200 2*512 £115
Hitachi 7K250 160GB £62
CWT 350watt £24 ( need to get price for the 450 watt one from scan)

so what do you think as might even purchase all that tomorrow !!!

worried about motherboard and ram really



377

[myth]

ok... finally final final going to get this i think after all the messing around

AMD Athlon 64 3000 £109
Epox 8kda3j £67
Consair Value pc3200 2*512 £115
Hitachi 7K250 160GB £62
CWT 350watt £24 ( need to get price for the 450 watt one from scan)

so what do you think as might even purchase all that tomorrow !!!

worried about motherboard and ram really



377

Looks good! But I think you turnd it into a gaming rig! The ram is fine.. But I know nothing about the mobo.

[Snow-Munki]

Looks good! But I think you turnd it into a gaming rig! The ram is fine.. But I know nothing about the mobo.

sshhhh.... one day when she's not watch i'll change our pc's over

and it acutally worked out cheaper than the athlon xp barton spec b/c of saving of purchasing a £30 heatsink !!!

[BUFF]

and it acutally worked out cheaper than the athlon xp barton spec b/c of saving of purchasing a £30 heatsink !!!

But the HSF that you are getting doesn't compare to a Thermalright
Btw by my reckoning an XP2500 & a Thermalright ~£90.

Other than Komplett who else has that mobo - I don't think that it's officially in the UK yet (I'm considering it too ).

[Snow-Munki]

nowhere else seems to sell that motherboard...

yeah xp2500 + thermalright = £90

athlon 64 3000 = £90 ish

so yeah ... oh well

the epox 8kda3+ is available most places but cost a bit more...