p4 Question

[Overload]

this may be irrelevent now but i remember hearing about how p4's would suffer a lot from todays benchmarks and software. but once software is written to take advantage of the new instruction set on the p4 that its performance would sugnificantly improve. of course the athlonXP have a new instruction set as well. can someone clearify this for me. i have to admit that i know very little about the athlon XP, so if someone could give me a rundown on what the XP is all about or some good sites to read i would appeciate it.

P.S. what do you think would be the best upgrade to my system in my sig.

[trey_w]

i believe the Athlon only has SSE instruction set

the P4 has SSE SSEII

You are correct, if applications were written in SSEII, the P4 would perform alot better

at about 2.4Ghz or so, you will start seeing the Northwood P4 really gaining on performance and benchmarks

i think the XP and P4 are great chips,

i own 2 P4 systems just because AMD has had issues in the past, mainly heat

but, the Xp is very nice

people tend to go for the AMD alot here for overclocking reasons along with price

but, if AMD locks the processor and prevents them from being unlocked like intel, then i think it will be a closer race in popularity

[Yodums]

I agree 100% with Trey W.

Although Intel is making very good improvements.
As you see the new Celeron Tualatin overclocked is matching with the XP and whooping chips around :D

The thing I would like to see in the future of Intel is every chip using DDR technology since it'd make it much better in benchmarks and other stuff as they use alot of memory bandwidth and SDR isn't good compared to DDR.

Yodums

[Yodums]

Originally posted by Overload
this may be irrelevent now but i remember hearing about how p4's would suffer a lot from todays benchmarks and software. but once software is written to take advantage of the new instruction set on the p4 that its performance would sugnificantly improve. of course the athlonXP have a new instruction set as well. can someone clearify this for me. i have to admit that i know very little about the athlon XP, so if someone could give me a rundown on what the XP is all about or some good sites to read i would appeciate it.

P.S. what do you think would be the best upgrade to my system in my sig.

Hmm..
About your sig you need to tell us what your use your comp for to upgrade it for that specific reason.

Probably more ram if your a Seti/Folding user or use alot of games that would require more ram.

Newer video card if your a gamer possibly minimum of a GeForce 2 Ti200...

Your chip seems to be fine for now.

Yodums

[Overload]

Originally posted by Yodums


Hmm..
About your sig you need to tell us what your use your comp for to upgrade it for that specific reason.

Probably more ram if your a Seti/Folding user or use alot of games that would require more ram.

Newer video card if your a gamer possibly minimum of a GeForce 2 Ti200...

Your chip seems to be fine for now.

Yodums

I am a seti user. i use to place in the top 25 for cpu time regularly, but know it seems i am falling WAY behind :-( I like to play games when i have the time. i am tempted to add another 256MB of ram but am unsure what would be the best for 150mhz @ 222. also tempting to upgrade video to gf3, but i think i will make my current setup due and save my money for a full overhaul to a .13u northwood with ddr

[Overload]

I think the most meaninful upgrade right now would be a bigger harddrive. my current HD is shrinking fast and is the biggest bottleneck in my system now(of course). what should i look for that would have no problem running at 150fsb?

[funnyperson1]

Originally posted by Overload
I think the most meaninful upgrade right now would be a bigger harddrive. my current HD is shrinking fast and is the biggest bottleneck in my system now(of course). what should i look for that would have no problem running at 150fsb?

a 40GB 60GXP should fare well....

[Yodums]

When ram price drops again get yourself at least 512 ram..

When the GF4 comes out get the GF3 if your planning to get it.

Don't get the IBM GXP75 since their being sued for having bad quality products.

[theflyingrat]

To date, I've never had any problems with any of my Maxtor drives, and neither has anyone in my family; there have been 7 through this household in the past 2 years, and not one failure, even with all the overclocking going on.