my new rig

[Jsr]

They're bad! And evil!
The AMD's outperform the P4. And it's a shame to see "2.5 GHz", just when it performs 2 GHz (or even less).

With many, many, many other stuff...

Performs? ???
I don't know exactly what you mean, but the clockspeed tells how fast the CPU run, not really what it perform. A 486 is faster than a 286 if they both run at the same clockspeed, since the 486 manage to do more things on the same time.
Now I don't know the performance of a P4 comparing to an AMD, but its true that Slougi says about fried CPUs.
Actually, I don't have anything against either AMD or Intel.

 

[Doomulation]

Performs? ???
I don't know exactly what you mean, but the clockspeed tells how fast the CPU run, not really what it perform. A 486 is faster than a 286 if they both run at the same clockspeed, since the 486 manage to do more things on the same time.
Now I don't know the performance of a P4 comparing to an AMD, but its true that Slougi says about fried CPUs.
Actually, I don't have anything against either AMD or Intel.

You just said what i meant.
I'm referring to that an athlon performs more things than the p4 can do at a time.

 

[AlphaWolf]

P4 is a perfectly fine cpu, and excells in some areas compared to the athlon (stability and robustness. Of how many fried/chipped p4's have you heared?) It is slower on a clock for clock basis but intel went for maximum clock speeds instead of maximum work per clock and the result is the fastest desktop cpu on the market.

Well, the only advantage that P4 has is the SSE2 set which only a few applications actualy use. So far as stability, theres no difference. (in fact, intel is more notorious for having flawed CPUs than AMD is). Not at all worth it considering that a P4 of the exact speed as an AMD counterpart costs more than twice as much.

If you are a gamer, theres no question as to which brand you should go. You should only go intel if you are a graphics designer, or something similar in that range, and you need it to be 10% faster than AMDs fastest CPU.

Other than that though, its pretty sad that AMDs fastest processor runs at 1.8ghz (the 2200+), and goes the same speed as (nay...faster than in games) a P4 2.3ghz.

Theres a funny article about it here: http://www.geek.com/discus/messages/321/6865.html

Read down to the mock conversation.

 

[Doomulation]

Did i forget to mention...?
Athlon is cheaper.

 

[Olger901]

well a friend of mine has a P4 2.0 Gig and I can tell you for sure that my Amd Atlon XP 1500 Mhz works faster then their P4 I would never ever trade my pc for that comp

2nd Stability Both Pcs use Win XP The P4 crashes at least once a week my own pc I haven't had a crash since 6 weeks not even a slight errror on my pc. So to my opinion Athlon is more stable and Faster so I know for sure I will always stick with Amd

 

[EddyB43]

SSE2 support should be added for the next generation of AMD processor, the ClawHammer. Of course, Intel will probably add SSE3 or something stupidly named in their next generation processor too.

This P4 insanity was thanks to Intel's desperation/greed unfortunately, they decided to launch the CPU a year earlier and hadn't finished most of the optimisations. If they'd held back, AMD could have been left in the dust.

 

[Doomulation]

SSE2 support should be added for the next generation of AMD processor, the ClawHammer. Of course, Intel will probably add SSE3 or something stupidly named in their next generation processor too.

This P4 insanity was thanks to Intel's desperation/greed unfortunately, they decided to launch the CPU a year earlier and hadn't finished most of the optimisations. If they'd held back, AMD could have been left in the dust.

I'm sure AMD would start on working a new processor when it was released and the result the same.
But the good thing is, when a new type of processor comes and becomes popular, the prices of the other drops.