I just read the P180 article from Sep19 on THG. The author mentions how he saw very little performance gain from a P4 3.0 northwood to an Athlon4000+
Yet looking at the CPU charts, I see scores of the 3500+ beating the 3.2c - but also Intel, as we know, winning in Audio/Video tasks.
I use my system equally for Video/Audio tasks (encoding, editing, etc.) and gaming. What do you think of switching from a P4 3.2c to an Athlon64 3500+ venice? Equal performance? is it worth it? ...etc.??
P4c 3.2Ghz NWood / ABIT AI7 / 1GB XMS-Pro DDR 3200 / BFG GF-6800GT 256mb / Antec 380W
A64 3000 Venice / Epox 9npa-U / 1GB HyperX DDR 3200 / XFX GF-6600GT 128mb / Antec 330W
Yet looking at the CPU charts, I see scores of the 3500+ beating the 3.2c - but also Intel, as we know, winning in Audio/Video tasks.
I use my system equally for Video/Audio tasks (encoding, editing, etc.) and gaming. What do you think of switching from a P4 3.2c to an Athlon64 3500+ venice? Equal performance? is it worth it? ...etc.??
P4c 3.2Ghz NWood / ABIT AI7 / 1GB XMS-Pro DDR 3200 / BFG GF-6800GT 256mb / Antec 380W
A64 3000 Venice / Epox 9npa-U / 1GB HyperX DDR 3200 / XFX GF-6600GT 128mb / Antec 330W