My jump from AMD to Intel

[CircuitBreaker8]

Well, some of you know this already, but I recently sold my 2500-M and Abit NF7-S to get a Intel P4 2.6ghz and an Abit AI7 mobo. Anyways, I just wanted to try intel out before I got my 939 system ( later this year ) At stock speeds, the 2.6C is of course faster than the 2500-M, even with the 333mhz bus. Overclocking was another story...Right now, I have a volcano 11 mounted ( dont ask...its complicated lol ) on my 2.6C until my HYPER 6 comes, so I cant really overclock it much. Its at 3.01ghz with 231mhz FSB. According to sandra and 3dmarks cpu score, thats about the same as my 2500-M at 2.5ghz with 420mhz FSB. The intel scored a little higher in most tests though. DIGITS ( seller ) told me this cpu topped out at 3.35ghz with a zalman cooler, but since my hyper 6 is coming in, i should be able to take it to 3.4 with a little extra voltage. Now onto the real life stuff The difference between the 2500-m and the 2.6C arnt very noticable, even in games. The 2.6C DOES seem quicker on my desktop, things just pop up, and programs open up pretty quicky. Photoshop 7 takes about 3-4 seconds to load and the windows boot time is a little faster. Games run a little smoother, like BF1942, which relies on the CPU mostly. The bigger maps in UT2k4 run a little smoother to ( ONS ) Overall, if I had to do it all over again, I would go intel this time, it just seems quicker in general.

 

[Docta_Z]

Traitor!!

 

[CircuitBreaker8]

 

[bradleyland]

I look into the future and I see... an Athlon64 review from you stating how the A64 is faster than your old 2.6 Intel and that if you had to do it again you'd go AMD A64

 

[CircuitBreaker8]

Of course I will......but the A64 is a better CPU in general than the p4c's.

 

[Drec]

is this small difference in speed worth the extra $65 on the cpu?

 

[CircuitBreaker8]

Well, I didnt pay 65$ more, it was actually an even trade. BUT it is worth it IMO. Everything just seems quicker. I will post more results once I get my hyper 6, I cant really commpare a fully OCed 2500-M and a half OCed 2.6C. The 2500-M at 2.6 was faster than the the [email protected] though.

 

[BeerHunter]

Placebo effect.

 

[masterwoot]

"seems quicker"
Wow, I think I'll go sell my system and give somebody tons o cash to get an intel.

 

[aNTiChRisT]

Well, looks like the AMD fanboi's are even ripping eachother apart.

How sweet, it seems "us" with more cash tend to be more plesant.

Glad you like the new rig, hope you can get to 3.4, it's quite a tough call though.

~t0m

 

[batboy]

The 2.6C is not known to be a stellar overclocker, but you should still be able to squeeze more out of it without too much trouble, The AI7 is a good mobo. Update the BIOS using the super easy FlashMenu program. Make sure the AGP/PCI is fixed to default 66/33 and then set the GAT to auto, auto, auto, disable, disable (very important to have the last two settings disabled). If you can get the FSB and DDR speed up a little higher, you'll notice a nice performance gain.

 

[Sjaak]

'Once you get there.....'

 

[Drec]

anyone notice hes banned? wonder what for.

 

[attack]

Could be he just wanted his rank to say that...I've seen it before. You know if you donate to the forums they'll color your stars or change your rank message.

I've ran both a p4 2.4C @3.2 and a [email protected] and I couldn't even notice the difference (nothing against the p4...or 1700+ because I sold both and got the system in my sig). I also do not do a lot of CPU intensive apps...I browse the internet, type papers, listen to winamp, AIM....and that's about it so I'm not exactly a power user. That said, I'm glad to hear you improved your system noticeably...and at that for free!

 

[fhanderson]

I have a 2.0G P4 clocked to 3100 with pc 2700 memory and a 2500M clocked to 2700. The 2500M out benchmarks the P4 in everything except memory scores. The way the P4 boots, opens, closes apps and pages is faster than the 2500M. So I agree with CircuitBreaker8 that the p4 feels faster.

 

[Imperial]

Welcome to the greener side of the fence

 

[hooah]

Nice new toy to play with. The C chips are alot of fun, but wait till you get the A64 later this year...then the real fun begins. wahahahahahahahaha

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Well, some of you know this already, but I recently sold my 2500-M and Abit NF7-S to get a Intel P4 2.6ghz and an Abit AI7 mobo. Anyways, I just wanted to try intel out before I got my 939 system ( later this year ) At stock speeds, the 2.6C is of course faster than the 2500-M, even with the 333mhz bus. Overclocking was another story...Right now, I have a volcano 11 mounted ( dont ask...its complicated lol ) on my 2.6C until my HYPER 6 comes, so I cant really overclock it much. Its at 3.01ghz with 231mhz FSB. According to sandra and 3dmarks cpu score, thats about the same as my 2500-M at 2.5ghz with 420mhz FSB. The intel scored a little higher in most tests though. DIGITS ( seller ) told me this cpu topped out at 3.35ghz with a zalman cooler, but since my hyper 6 is coming in, i should be able to take it to 3.4 with a little extra voltage. Now onto the real life stuff The difference between the 2500-m and the 2.6C arnt very noticable, even in games. The 2.6C DOES seem quicker on my desktop, things just pop up, and programs open up pretty quicky. Photoshop 7 takes about 3-4 seconds to load and the windows boot time is a little faster. Games run a little smoother, like BF1942, which relies on the CPU mostly. The bigger maps in UT2k4 run a little smoother to ( ONS ) Overall, if I had to do it all over again, I would go intel this time, it just seems quicker in general.

Man, another one that fell for Intel's higher frequency hype .

Assuming the Pentium4 is faster at stock, just because of a higher frequency.

My Athlon XP T-bred 2000+ OC'ed to 2.048 Ghz can beat a Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz. I benchmarked it with Sandra 2004.

 

[Audioaficionado]

I ran both a Barton 200/2200 and 2.4c 250/3000 and the P4c spanked the Barton in FAH mainly because of HT. Now I've moved on to dual Xeons but I'd still like to build a dual Opteron system when the pricing becomes more reasonable. I'm not a fanboy of either company but Intel seems to be giving me the best price/performance for now.

Of course YMMV

 

[daba]

Welcome, friend, welcome.