Thread: amd vs. pentium

Personally I love my AMD XP2000
With the proper heat sink my core temp never jumps above 52c (about 125f)

Now a quick comparison.
My dads box has a P4 w/ 512ddr pc2700 at 333mh. Thats the new chip
Now i'm running a XP2000+ with 512pc2100 at the usual 133mh.
Everything else is the same. With the exception of the motherboards and my debugger*.

Same graphics card(GF4)
Same ethernet
Same software on loads at startup*
Same size/speed HD
Same OS
Same 10button game pad.

Using my stop watch at his request, we times are machines and these where the results.
My booted at 15sec, his 23.
That is completely booted and ready to go.

Using trueSpace to render the same animations.
Mine 5h3m52s
His 6h42m03s
Not much of a deference there.
Most of that the graphics card did. Only the radiosicity (Lighting) what performed by the cpu.

Now the real test.
Microsoft's CPU stress test. Included with their SDK
My dads could handle:
2 threads
1 time critical, busy
1 high, busy
with about six seconds lag when pressing the startmenu button on the keyboard

Mine:
2 threads
both time critical, busy
with about eight seconds lag on the start button.

Try that on a 1.2gh(p3 i think) cpu and your froze.
His had more that 30sec. lag

In my opinion amd is the current way to go.

Originally posted by erikcn
AMD,s processor is up in smoke when the CPU cooler is removed.

If anyone removes the cooling system on a high speed processor, I WILL constantly call them a dumb a$$.