[ale] Speed comparison

[Dow Hurst]

Well ghz is GHz is Gigahertz.  However, I know what your really saying:

Is a P4 at 2.4GHz of a particular production run with so much L1,L2,L3 cache 
on a particular motherboard going to perform equally or lesser than an AMD 
Athlon XP 2500 running a 1.83GHz and so on....


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
>>   http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80170-R
>>
>>
>>>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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