Detailed AMD Athlon vs Intel P4 Test Articles

[diy01]

Hello,

I am going to be writing a formal report (mock report for a communications class). I want to see how the AMD Athlon XP+ processor compares to the Intel P4 processor (I'm not yet sure which speeds to compare). The computer labs at the college I attend use P4s in their computers so I need to convince the reader of the report that AMD is the way to go due to cheaper prices. I'm a bit worried because I have seen the articles on this website saying that Intel has caught up to AMD and now the price difference isn't much of a factor. I'm looking for very detailed articles that compare these two kinds of cpus...Preferably an article that isn't too complex and easy for a novice user to understand and summarize. If you can provide links to other websites similar to tomshardware.com that would be great. Thank you for taking the time to respond.

Regards.

 

[Spitfire_x86]

For word processing, e-mail etc. jobs both are same, Even 1.3 GHz P4 and 3.06 GHz P4 is same for this kind of works.

At the low-end, midrange and high-end, AXP's are still champion performer. P4 3.06 is the best for ultra high-end when used with PC1066 RDRAM.

The benchmarks of this article should help <A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/index.html " target="_new">http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/index.html </A>

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[eden]

<A HREF="http://www.arstechnica.com" target="_new">http://www.arstechnica.com</A>
Due to the immense amount of information regarding CPUs and their architectures, I really can't dig them all personally, as you will enjoy more finding your own. Look on the left, click CPU theory and praxis, then look around for K7 architecture information, and P7/NetBurst core.

Additionally, low end is still a dominated sector by AMD, and regardless of what some say, it is NOT being overtaken slowly slowly. In fact it is far from that.
When you see a Pentium 4, that is very performing, at 50$ US, you tell me.

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