Greg Hess Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 Current Top Tier Chips... Intel: 2.8B Pentium IV Northwood 2.4A Xeon AMD: 2600+ Athlon XP Tbred (2.13 Ghz) 2200+ Athlon MP (1.8 Ghz) These chips just recently came out, and I just wanted to let everyone know how obsolete their systems have become. Sigh. Damn you technology, damn you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted August 22, 2002 Share Posted August 22, 2002 damn.... and I was about to buy a new system, and now I really dont know what to buy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted August 22, 2002 Author Share Posted August 22, 2002 I'd say for dual systems, Dual Athlon MP's rule all, both in performance and in cost. This will change when the new xeons hit the market, but thats still at least 1-2 months away. For a single proc system, the 2.8B P4 would beatup the 2600+ XP pretty badly if the app was using SSE2. The FSB increase as well as the shear megahertz difference removes the gap. (Its past the 500-600 megahertz boundry required for an intel chip to perform faster). Of course you'll be paying a 300 USD premium on that 2.8B. (Its about 600 USD in price) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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