Qui-GONE Jinn Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 All you who know something about computers, help me out here? Are the Athlon 400 DDR series more powerful than the Pentium 4 333 DDR series? Of course, this comparison requires that the two machines have about the same system-configuration... Which one has the more powerful performance? Athlon 400 DDR or P4 333 DDR? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 go for the athlon for pure price difference the money you save will give u a greater performance boost elsewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklighter Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 I think that if you have the extra cash and are willing to spend it, go for the P4. But efficiency wise, I'll agree with Clem, and go with the Athlon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 y waste the money you dont get nething from buying a p4 .... theyre no faster .... they have no more reliability (to my knowledge im sure sum1 will be along to argue soon) the money can go on ram .... or a better GPU .... or some nice sound or even if u really wanna a nice case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightspeed Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Well I got the P4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Truthful Liar Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Hello there Norway, greets from Sverige! I was in the same position as you a couple months ago. I ended up with an Athlon and havn't turned back, in my personal experience I'd say that Athlon has higher performance than the Pentium unless you are interested in advanced 3d modelling, film making or dvd playback. I highly suggest you look around some computer places on the internet that sell especially in Norway, I did the same over here. I also recommend that you buy from this place http://www.komplett.se/http://www.komplett.no (I think this is the norweigen site), they have some awesome deals for pcs. The computer I bought is as follows: Link to the computer. Specs: Box: Chieftec Silver Medium Tower (One of the best boxes in the world) Processor: AMD Athlon XP2200+ 1.8 Memory: DDR-DIMM PC2700 512MB (DDR-PC333MHz) Graphic Card: GeForce4 Ti4600 128MB (Creative 3DBlaster Titanium) Soundcard: Soundblaster Audigy Player with Firewire Cost: $1,500/15,000:- Swedish Krowns Godt hell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacky_Baccy Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Get the Athlon! AMD roxx Posted by AB_Legion Hello there Norway, greets from Sverige! You have no idea what kinds of horrible sickening terrfiying and absolutely hilarious memories that brings back from so many Eurovision song contests :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 lol eurovision terry wogan in his element the only time i ever find him funny or infact listen to him at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teutonicknight Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 I will assume that your going to be using this computer solely for gaming so..... AMD! AMD is a really good choice purely for the fact that it is much more cheaper than P4's, and that at a lower clock sped, it still competes with High end P4s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiRtY $oUtH™ Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 look man..I got an Athlon XP 1600+ and my cousin has the P4 2.4 gigs. His **** is slow compared to mine. Trust me..go AMD all the way. Cheaper and more reliable. Better performance as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShockV1.89 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Intel P4A 1.8 ghz - $143.00 AMD Athlon XP 1800 - $79.00 P4 is teh suck!!!11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCanr2d2 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Go for the P4, since the FSB (Front Side Bus) doesn't actually give the full bandwidth available for the quickest RAM available. In the PCPowerPlay magazine here in Australia, VIA refused to comment about this "anomoly". Even if it does support the DDR2 RAM, it has a bottleneck with the bus between the RAM and the CPU. (And everyone thinks it is MS and Intel that have things to hide) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShockV1.89 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Originally posted by BCanr2d2 Go for the P4, since the FSB (Front Side Bus) doesn't actually give the full bandwidth available for the quickest RAM available. In the PCPowerPlay magazine here in Australia, VIA refused to comment about this "anomoly". Even if it does support the DDR2 RAM, it has a bottleneck with the bus between the RAM and the CPU. (And everyone thinks it is MS and Intel that have things to hide) Yeah, that does suck. But the performance gain probably isnt worth spending the extra cash. Besides, waiting a few months for the Hammer will probably fix this problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kstar__2 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 if you want the best of the best, get a pentium. if you want a good price/quality, get AMD, like me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qui-GONE Jinn Posted November 27, 2002 Author Share Posted November 27, 2002 Thanks everyone, it's been helpful. If everything turns out alright, I'll be ordering my computer today. If you want to, I can get back to you later, and give you my specs. And yes, AB_Legion, I'm using Komplett, and I never considered anything else Takk, min venn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeskywalker1 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 i heard athalon is better quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediNyt Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Athlon is better for gaming. Thats what I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qui-GONE Jinn Posted November 27, 2002 Author Share Posted November 27, 2002 Guys: Your opinions are needed, I need to know if this is a good system - especially the motherboard - and how long you think it'll last. Thanks again! Asus a7v8x/LAN motherboard socket A DDR VIAKT400,ATA/133, ATX, USB 2.0, 8x APG AMD Athlon XP2400+2,0 ghz 266 MHz bus Socket A (thoroughbred) processor GlobalWin CPU cooler Socket A/7/370/FCPGA TAK68, up to XP2600 512 MB DDR Ram (for DDR-PC400 MHz) Western Caviar 80 GB IDE 2MB cache Pioneer DVD player IDE 16x/40x LG Cd bruner 48x/16x/48x Asus V8460 GeForce 4 Ti4600 128 MB Creative Soundblaster Audigy Player soundcard PCI with Firewire Labtec speakers Arena-530, 4 satelites and Subwoofer That's the most important stats again, and thanks! I'm going to buy this, if you tell me it's the right thing to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiRtY $oUtH™ Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 thats great...good thing you got an Athlon...P4 sucks....they play the Megahertz game...all numbers, no performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 shame to waste the 5.1 soundcard by using 4.1 speakers but i doubt it makes alot of difference otherwise pretty damn good better than mine in ....... every respect and i still consider mine a beast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda_623 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 I have an Athlon,and it runs fine for me.....either one would be a good buy though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacco Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 I will go for the P4. So far, mine has been very reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCanr2d2 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 The main thing with gaming, especially 3-D gaming is the FPU, or floating point unit. It has to do plenty of the work for the GPU on the newest cards, still working out the raw X,Y,Z positional data for the graphics.... The Intel chips have usually lead the way until the Athlon Thunderbirds - the Athlon chips that were over 1GHz came along. I think it is as the others said - for bang for buck, ie value, go for the Athlon. But for the raw processing power, the P4 is still the king of the heap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCanr2d2 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 Originally posted by Clem shame to waste the 5.1 soundcard by using 4.1 speakers but i doubt it makes alot of difference otherwise pretty damn good better than mine in ....... every respect and i still consider mine a beast Probably doesn't UNLESS you watch a lot of DVD's.... A centre speaker is always good thing to have, centres the sound "image". I have never used 4.1 before, but I would assume that it would make quite the difference to miss that centre speaker, since I am so used to having it to watch TV and DVD's with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 <reads bcans sig> HEY WHEN WAS THE NAME CHANGED?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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