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- <li><em>date</em>: Fri Apr 2 12:45:47 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: ups at tree.com (Stephan Uphoff)</li>
- <li><em>in-reply-to</em>: Your message of "Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:24:45 EST." <<a href="msg00050.html">[email protected]</a>> </li>
- <li><em>subject</em>: [ale] Speed comparison</li>
You forgot to mention "perform for a specific application" ;-)
(and particular RAM, controller, ....)
Unfortunately most benchmarks on the web are highly irrelevant for me.
( Game frame rates , office productivity tools, ....)
I recently stopped miss-using my Dual Xeon 2.8GHz test machine for kernel
compile duties
and bought and used a cheap Athlon XP 2500/Barton instead.
( While I am normally a SCSI only guy due to the higher MTBF - I tested the
SATA waters
with the Raptor drive (the first non SCSI drive with decent MTBF) for this box)
While I am certain that a benchmark would show the Xeon machine way ahead on
compiles
it really makes no practical difference for me.
>
>
> I can tell you this:
>
> My P4 2.8GHz w/hyperthreading in my Dell workstation doesn't seem any faster
> for FPU than my home PC with a Athlon XP 1800 at ~1.5GHz. For disk access the
> Dell seems faster than the home PC. Graphics seem sort of equivalent though I
> know they shouldn't be. Responsiveness is about equal between the two
> workstations.
>
> Dow
>
>
>
>
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Here is where I get confused is 2.4GHz faster than 1.83ghz?
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 13:12, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> >
> >>You might want to upgrade to an Athlon with a 512K L2 cache.
> >> Example: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83GHz 333FSB 512KB - $80 + Free shipping
> >> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80170-R";>http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80170-R</a>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'm looking in the lates dirty magazine (Computer User). We call them
> >>>the dirty magazine because of the lust they create. I guess I can get an
> >>>XP-2400+ for $74.99 and a PIV 2.4 for $145.99 Is there any difference
> >>>that warrants double price?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 06:06, Geoffrey wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Marvin Dickens wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>It does not, the P4s, especially the celerons are dogs. I have a
> >>>>>>>1.8 GHz celeron and I swear my 800 MHz Athlon runs rings around
> >>>>>>>it. I've been underwhelmed by the p4 since there were introduced.
> >>>>>>>Any processor that is slower per clock tick than the previous
> >>>>>>>generation has something dreadfully wrong. If you must do P4,
> >>>>>>>get a real one, not the celeron.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Thanks. It looks as if I'll be skipping the system due to the
> >>>>>>Intel tax. The XP must be better.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>FWIW, I always go with AMD. The only disadvantage I know of is that
> >>>>>AMD processors are destroyed in the event of an unnoticed CPU fan
> >>>>>failure occurs. OTOH, the Intel chips automatically shut themselves
> >>>>>down when a fan failure occurs and the temperature rises too high.
> >>>>
> >>>>They now have athlon mb that will shutdown in the same way. I've got
> >>>>two, but I've not tested it. :)
> >>>>
> >>>
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