| Tank Hunter Pro. | July 9th, 2004 08:51 PM |
Re: AMD vrs. Pentium
Well in my opinion the P4 hyper threaded is for serious heavy duty work. Its like a race car. If you have a drag car that runs on an alcohol based fuel to give it its super high performance, and you give it petrol and a regular stock car beats it then thats to be expected. The AMD was designed to work for the people with less cash flow and less hardware parts. My computer is a p4 3.0Ghz HT. Physicaly it is ONE processor. Logicaly to your BIOS and your computer it is TWO processors working together. 32x2=64. The P4HT is alrdy LOGICALY running at 64 bits. Also your system hardware specs will logicaly register the processor as 6.0GHZ if you've built the comp right. To accomidate this massive processing hog you need the right equipment. A minimum of 2 gigs of DUAL, not regular but Dual linked DDR ram at your boards maximum Mhz. Also 2x SATA 10,000 RPM Raid (0) hard drives. With this setup that I have plus my Asus GeForce 5700 FX Ultra with 256mb of Dual DDR ram, everything runs like a dream. There is no lag with the maximum video settings and sound settings. Also map load time is down to at least 4 seconds and at most 12. Id say the only real problem is that I had to buy a new case with more fan ports because the overheating of the hard drive platters caused the harddrives to slow for a moment and creat some framerate loss. Once they where properly cooled it ran fine. Im pretty sure that when those benchmarks where made they wern't using the P4 to its fullest extent like it should be to show off its power. | 