DemonDave

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Thoughts

which is better between the amd athlon 64 3000+ and a p4 3.2

and what do you think to this spec of pc ?

1 x Asus K8V/SE Deluxe S754 VIA k8t800 ATX Sound Gig lAN Firewire USB 2.0 FSB 800
1 x AMD (Newcastle) Athlon 64 Bit 3000/512 l2 Cache 754pin CPU OEM
1 x Corsair 1gb 400MHz DDR Non-ECC CL3 (3-3-3) DIMM (Kit 2)
1 x Samsung 160gb Serial ATA 8mb Cache 7200rpm
1 x Antec Sonata Midi Tower in Piano Black Trupower 380W PSU - 9 Drive Bays
1 x Pioneer 8x Dvd Dual R/rw Ide Burner
1 x Sony 16x40 IDE BLACK DVD-ROM Drive
1 x Panasonic Floppy Disk Drive Black 1.44MB 3.5 inch internal
1 x Hightech ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128MB TV-Out DVI Twin View
1 x Thermaltake Amd Opteron And Athlon 64 Cpu Cooler
1 x Audigy sound card

Ta

Dave.

Dazza's-STi

just biult myself another P4 3ghz with a gig of samsumg matched ram... and also built my m8 a AMD 2800 with a gig of ram... both on asus deluxe and equivilant boards... and


the althon runs windows faster, but it runs bamned hot... 50c my P4 cruches numbers well and flighs when vid editing or ripping cd's dvd's havin hyper threading... also runs cooler... i.e. now its at 31c nice!

take ya pick...

hope this helps

Dazza

DemonDave

iTrader: (13)

thats why I was looking at the 64 rather than the xp pro ... to get the hyper threading and cool running ... might be time to toss a coin

cong

whats your budget? then il give it a go and see what i can make for your budget!

lightning101

I've got both - P4 3.2. is faster in all areas than a 64bit athlon 3200, but its also dearer.

Hyperthreading is excellent, and I find that when using overnet/torrents I can still so other things without interuption (using dual channel ram).

I would not buy an athlon on the basis that 64 bit windows is coming for the following reasons:

64 bit windows will cost you at least another £150
By the time it is available you will be wanting the latest 4-4.5 ghz processor
Your system will be worth **** all.

So for current 32 bit systems - buy the P4.

Richard Curtis

Dave,

I've got a similar setup to your proposal
AMD 64 3200 (OEM) with ASUS deluxe board
1GB of 3-3-3 kingston RAM
Pro IceQ 9800 128MB
but with slower IDE drives

Absolutely awesome performance - runs FAR CRY no probs with everything maxxed out.
My previous P4 1800 with ti4200 struggled on LOW detail settings.

The cpu and MB runs a cool 40 degrees C.

Haven't bothered overclocking yet - no need, but both the grafix card and CPU could easily be tweaked higher.

I'd looked at reviews before buying and the CPU is just a bit slower than the P4 3.2 EE for most benchmarks but it is a lot cheaper.


Rich

btw - that motherboard is a peach, excellent value for money, loads of features and well laid out (easy to build with no probs fitting the double width Ice Q card).