AMD Athlon XP Vs. Intel Pentium 4

03-27-2002, 03:38 AM

Hi everyone,
What do ya all think is better.....

The AMD Athlon XP 1800+ or the Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz
I am thinking of buying the amd but if u's can change my mind i'll go with it, please also help me out with pro's and con's
I wont b able to afford a Pen. 4 1.8 so if i where to get a pentium it would b 1.6Ghz......do u still reckon its better.

Personally i prefer AMD but please reply
thanx heaps

**jrwap** · 03-27-2002, 09:33 AM

I love my AMD systems, and would reccomend you go with the XP proc also. If you have plenty of money the P4 with a large bank of expensive RDRAM would still be a sweet system. For some reason the P4's haven't performed very well when mated to the DDR RAM or Pc133 ... for obvious reasons.

Get yourself a nice XP with a bunch of DDR RAM and nice mobo and you should have a very sweet system.

-JRW

**NUTNDUN** · 03-27-2002, 09:40 AM

Go with AMD, price to performance ratio kicks a$$. Plus the floating point unit on the AMD keeps it ahead of the pentium on alot of benchmarks.

03-28-2002, 12:47 AM

Thanx to everyone who helped me with my question, i'm new to the board and i reckon its great so u's should see me around alot now.

Yea i like the AMD XP also,
so thanx!,
Brent

**jrwap** · 03-28-2002, 06:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jonnyb
Thanx to everyone who helped me with my question, i'm new to the board and i reckon its great so u's should see me around alot now.

Yea i like the AMD XP also,
so thanx!,
Brent

No problem, let us know how the new system goes.

-JRW

Cw_strife · 04-02-2002, 08:14 AM

AMD is basically more bang for the buck. So basically you are getting a faster processor (even though the clock speed could be slower) and be paying less. It is a wierd concept of how all that works but if you read some tech websites maybe you would understand it, because I am still a bit confused on how it works myself. But go with AMD, the only thing intel is good for is the server market and they are about to loose that. Sucks for them.

john80y · 04-02-2002, 10:37 AM

It works like this :

A processor has clock cycles (mhz) and an instruction set.

The processor speed is found my multiplying the amount of clock cycles by the amount of instructions .

For example :

A clock speed of 100mhz that does 5 instructions per mhz gives a speed of 500...

A clock cycle of 75mhz that does 10 instructions per mhz gives a speed of 750 ..

Basically ...

Intel = High clock cycles but low instructions
AMD = Low clock cycle but higher instructions.

04-05-2002, 11:34 PM

hey jonny b thanks for that help u gave me before on chat

03-27-2002, 03:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
jonnyb Guest Posts: n/a	AMD Athlon XP Vs. Intel Pentium 4 Hi everyone, What do ya all think is better..... The AMD Athlon XP 1800+ or the Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz I am thinking of buying the amd but if u's can change my mind i'll go with it, please also help me out with pro's and con's I wont b able to afford a Pen. 4 1.8 so if i where to get a pentium it would b 1.6Ghz......do u still reckon its better. Personally i prefer AMD but please reply thanx heaps

03-27-2002, 09:40 AM	#3 (permalink)
NUTNDUN Registered Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: PA Posts: 1,465	Go with AMD, price to performance ratio kicks a$$. Plus the floating point unit on the AMD keeps it ahead of the pentium on alot of benchmarks. __________________

03-28-2002, 12:47 AM	#4 (permalink)
jonnyb Guest Posts: n/a	Thanx Everyone Thanx to everyone who helped me with my question, i'm new to the board and i reckon its great so u's should see me around alot now. Yea i like the AMD XP also, so thanx!, Brent

04-02-2002, 08:14 AM	#6 (permalink)
Cw_strife Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: New Joisey Posts: 110	AMD is basically more bang for the buck. So basically you are getting a faster processor (even though the clock speed could be slower) and be paying less. It is a wierd concept of how all that works but if you read some tech websites maybe you would understand it, because I am still a bit confused on how it works myself. But go with AMD, the only thing intel is good for is the server market and they are about to loose that. Sucks for them. __________________ signatures are stupid so I am not going to have one.

04-02-2002, 10:37 AM	#7 (permalink)
john80y Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 261	It works like this : A processor has clock cycles (mhz) and an instruction set. The processor speed is found my multiplying the amount of clock cycles by the amount of instructions . For example : A clock speed of 100mhz that does 5 instructions per mhz gives a speed of 500... A clock cycle of 75mhz that does 10 instructions per mhz gives a speed of 750 .. Basically ... Intel = High clock cycles but low instructions AMD = Low clock cycle but higher instructions. __________________

03-27-2002, 09:33 AM	#2 (permalink)
jrwap Admin Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Gorham Me Posts: 243	I love my AMD systems, and would reccomend you go with the XP proc also. If you have plenty of money the P4 with a large bank of expensive RDRAM would still be a sweet system. For some reason the P4's haven't performed very well when mated to the DDR RAM or Pc133 ... for obvious reasons. Get yourself a nice XP with a bunch of DDR RAM and nice mobo and you should have a very sweet system. -JRW

04-05-2002, 11:34 PM	#8 (permalink)
dillusional Guest Posts: n/a	thanks jonnyb hey jonny b thanks for that help u gave me before on chat

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