Questions needing answers
Hi i've been planning on getting a new computer for a while now, and cant build one cause parents wont trust me to. But im smart, i know Dell is a crap company that overprices, and Gateway does too. So i plan on custom building from either www.cyberpowersystem.com or www.ibuypower.com
I was planning to get an Amd Athlon XP fully loaded, but have a few questions that came up
Anyways, i was wondering why is it better to buy an AMD athlon xp than a P4, i mean what differance is seen through every day use?
Also are all dvd-rw's able to make cdr's and cd-rw's, or does one have to buy a dvd-rw/cd-rw drive
Re: Questions needing answers
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Originally posted by whack_amol
Anyways, i was wondering why is it better to buy an AMD athlon xp than a P4, i mean what differance is seen through every day use?
if you want the techno wizz-bang explanation it is because the P4 has twice as many pipelines (20 to be exact) than the Athlon or the P3
It therefore takes twice as long to process a calculation...so in a perfect world a 1GHz Athlon could do as much as a 2Ghz P4
Of course, it isn't a perfect world and in reality the Athlon only makes 140% over the P4 instead of the magic 200%. The reason the P4 uses 20 is because it makes it easier to rack up the clock speeds with no bad-ass changes to the architechture; Intels 10 pipeline architechture had run out of steam by about 1.2Ghz (speed of top spec P3's)
The layman's explanation is because a like-for-like Athlon is faster, less expensive to manufacture and therefore cheaper to the consumer.
Re: Questions needing answers
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Originally posted by whack_amol
Hi i've been planning on getting a new computer for a while now, and cant build one cause parents wont trust me to. But im smart, i know Dell is a crap company that overprices, and Gateway does too. So i plan on custom building from either www.cyberpowersystem.com or www.ibuypower.com
I was planning to get an Amd Athlon XP fully loaded, but have a few questions that came up
Anyways, i was wondering why is it better to buy an AMD athlon xp than a P4, i mean what differance is seen through every day use?
Also are all dvd-rw's able to make cdr's and cd-rw's, or does one have to buy a dvd-rw/cd-rw drive
Check out www.monarchcomputer.com the people there are nice helpful etc.
Yeah, Chris pretty much said it. Athlons can process more instructions per clock cycle...thus a 1.8Ghz Athlon also known as XP2200+ can beat a 2.4Ghz P4 in some benchmarks.
