Wotok Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 For JK2Radiant: Athlon XP 1700 or Pentium IV 1.7Ghz Which will compile faster in JK2Radiant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoon_Gouge Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 I can't say for certain which is faster, but I'm running an Athalon XP 1800+ and my compiles have not been over two minutes... How's that for speedy? Spoon_Gouge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy867 Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 Has always been pleased with ATHLON for speed and reliability... after my P2 incident. I never went back to INTEL. I am getting the XP1600 this week, along with a GeForce4 Ti4200 128 MB DDR (yes I know its slower than the 64 MB model, but when D3 comes out, it will be worth it:) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wotok Posted August 29, 2002 Author Share Posted August 29, 2002 Hmm. I've currently got a TBird 1.2gig at home. It took 54 seconds to compile a simple map I was making. At work (shh, don't tell) I compiled a slightly larger map with the same amount of lights and it took 6 seconds. The computer at work was a PIV 1.6Ghz box. I wouldn't think there'd be THAT much difference, but at the same time, they ARE different architecture. I've got a little overtime $$ coming tomorrow. I'm buying an Abit KG7-R and an XP 1600+. Not bad for $107, shipped. Just curious if anyone knew/read which processor JK2Radiant likes more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonkish Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 I'm running an Athlon XP 2000 clocked at 1.7GHz, 512mb DDR SDRAM, and the longest compile time I've gotten was for a CTF map I recently finished for a mappack due out soon: 23.43 minutes. Of course, that's because q3map2 wasn't available at the time, and lighting takes forever with sof2map. Map is around the 9k brush mark, not counting entity brushes... and I think it's around 1500 entities.. (mostly lights) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emon Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 Neither will compile faster. Some people seem to think there's some radical speed difference between the two architectures, but guess what, there ISN'T. A 2 GHz P4 will compile no faster than a 1.53 Athlon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wotok Posted August 30, 2002 Author Share Posted August 30, 2002 Well, in benchmarking an XP 2000+ and a PIV 2Ghz, there will be be times when the XP will score higher, and other times the PIV will score higher. Since I'm getting the 1600+ (because of the nice price difference), my question doesn't really matter any more. It would be nice to know for the next guy who's a mapper and looking to upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy867 Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 let me guess Wotok, you got your board from pricewatch.com, right? I am getting an Athlon XP1600 (just waiting for it to arrive) from pricewatch.com, and I was very pleased with the price... why spend $300+ for essenitally the same speed you can get for $100... its like DUH... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wotok Posted August 30, 2002 Author Share Posted August 30, 2002 Pricewatch is good. Pricewatch is your friend. /me loves pricewatch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karshaddii Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 Speed isn't Intel. Speed isn't AMD. Speed is a word. One word. Alienware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy867 Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 Money isn't everything Dollars aren't everything Money=Alienware! Anyways, I want my GeForce4 and XP1600 to get here!!!!! GRRR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volrathxp Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 My 2 cents: It perfectly doesn't matter what processor you have. A PC is made up of parts. These parts must be able to work correctly with each other in order to function properly. Example: you can have this super badass GeForce 4 Ti-4600 card and that's nice and all, but if you have 128 mb of ram you're still not gonna see much performance. Another thing that matters is manufacturing quality. Many companies outsource overseas to have parts manufactured. Many use sub-par parts to build their boards, etc. You just gotta watch or you end up with something that doesn't work well. I was unfortunate early last year to own an Abit board, and suffice to say, because of Abit's shoddy manufacturing and lack of support/research into a known problem, I was forced to buy a new motherboard, memory, etc. Personally, I prefer AMD processors because AMD is very methodical in their approach to the market and they really know how to market. That and their processors perform very well, and are extremely easy to overclock. Another reason behind my preference on AMD is form factor. in athlon boards, you could keep slappin new procs into the board until the board couldn't take the newest speed. then it's time to upgrade the board. with Intel procs, you gotta spend money on a brand new proc, motherboard, possibly ram if you have to switch ram types just to even upgrade. Although, I do enjoy Intel's Xeon line of processors. They're the only procs that they make I really like. They're made for such high end usage, and the Hyper Threading idea is quite frankly, awesome. In terms of speed and technology, Intel is still way ahead of the game in some things, but AMD keeps them in check a lot. Thus, more competition between the two companies, and more revenue. More customers buy the products and this helps our economy get better. If this feels like a rant.. it prolly is... and if i got horribly offtopic.... oh well. wotok, btw i have heard good things about the kg7-r, i just have had horrible issues with abit in the past to ever buy anything from them ever again. and alienware pcs are too ****in expensive for my tastes. i prefer to build my own pc then to have somebody do it for me. at least then i know how things are interacting. rant: close: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wotok Posted August 30, 2002 Author Share Posted August 30, 2002 $0.02? Looks more like $1.28 to me. Rant aside, I'm WAS just looking for compilation speed comparisons. NOW I'm looking forward to ordering my new parts in an hour. Besides price, overclocking is why I went AMD and why I went KG7-R. Being a long-time overclocker, I know what an AMD can do. I did the research and the KG7 boards kept coming up to the top of the list. And for $55 (shipped), you can't beat that! Edit: I'd NEVER buy a premade computer - regardless of cool name/cases. If Alienware just sold the cases themselves, I may buy one for the nice skinz... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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