Most Powerfull CPU ?

[Dark Horse]

I'm surprised noone has mention Dothans yet, I think they are the only chip on the market more powerful per mhz than a64s.

[kempez]

I'm surprised noone has mention Dothans yet, I think they are the only chip on the market more powerful per mhz than a64s.

Yeah but for pure gaming and SLi support an A64 is the way to go.

I would get an X2 4800+ as thats the way to go for gaming and general use ATM. Intels new chips should be pretty sweet tho

[aidanjt]

That used to be the case, but, to be honest, AMD beat intel in almost all arenas now, not just gaming. The P4 just doesn't cut it against AMD's various chips.

Not true, P4's still whip AMD when it comes to heavy (and optimised) multimedia processing, Photoshop, video encoding, audio encoding, decoding etc etc.. Even the Windows desktop is much smoother with a P4

AMD's CPUs are much better with games because AMD has focused on developing their floating point units as much as possible, since most games are largely single threaded by design (i.e. don't load ballance threads), and don't properly use SIMD instruction sets, AMD comes out top as Intel has been taking a Multi-threaded/SIMD instruction sets stance in core development.. Athlon X2's wont be much good for gaming right now (maybe in a year or two this will change), so the FX would be ideal for gaming performance.

[kempez]

Well the X2's have gone a long way top catching up in encoding and stuff...and will continue to do so in the future

And as for d/c gaming...check here

[krazy_olie]

pentium 386

*cough* Doesn't exist *cough*

[dangel]

I'd add i wouldn't touch Intel's dual core stuff either as it's a horrible kludge to try and keep up with AMD - who are both at single AND dual core now!

Dual core's are great, me very much a happy bunny (and i game a lot too!)

[oralpain]

Not true, P4's still whip AMD when it comes to heavy (and optimised) multimedia processing, Photoshop, video encoding, audio encoding, decoding etc etc.. Even the Windows desktop is much smoother with a P4

This was true about a year ago.

AMD's CPUs are much better with games because AMD has focused on developing their floating point units as much as possible, since most games are largely single threaded by design (i.e. don't load ballance threads), and don't properly use SIMD instruction sets, AMD comes out top as Intel has been taking a Multi-threaded/SIMD instruction sets stance in core development.. Athlon X2's wont be much good for gaming right now (maybe in a year or two this will change), so the FX would be ideal for gaming performance.

Most game don't use the FPU all that much anymore. This is easily demonstrated by the fact that the Pentium M dothan is as fast as the A64 clock for clock in games and the Athlon 64 (and even the P4) has a FAR superior FPU unit.

[dangel]

This was true about a year ago.

Too true, and since AMD's dual core is better, that makes them king of the desktop too..

[sawyen]

R.I.P Intel Pentium 4

[aidanjt]

Stay thee tungs heathens!

[dangel]

Stay thee tungs heathens!

Who you calling an heathen? At least we're using modern architecture

[aidanjt]

mine will last me a good year or so yet :/

[kasavien]

AMD FX57 any day to be honest

for anyone whos interested...

http://www23.tomshardware.com/index.html

shame there aren't any double core processors in that article.

Just out of interest would a server board with say 2 X2's be good for gaming

[herulach]

AMD FX57 any day to be honest

for anyone whos interested...

http://www23.tomshardware.com/index.html

shame there aren't any double core processors in that article.

Just out of interest would a server board with say 2 X2's be good for gaming

You cant have 2 X2s, since they dont support multi processor, you could have 2 opteron dual core though, and yes it would own, but at 400 quid just for the motherboard, and needing ECC ram its not really that cost effective.

[aidanjt]

ECC RAM also brings in latency issues

[UltraMagnus]

2 dual core optrons, hang on, dont they make 8 processor socket 940 boards?

*drools*