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Many people are arguing about which is better, the P4 or Athlon. I myself was gonna buy an AMD DDR system when they become available. However, with these new benchmarks being released I had to sit and think about which one I should actually get. I came up with a conclusion that I believe is pretty valid, although there is still not enough information to back it up, and I myself question it, but it is nonetheless interesting.
Both the Athlon and P4 are very fast when running current applications of any kind, getting one processor instead of the other does not determine if the program will work or not, but only small performance differences like a few fps, which is not noticable. Therefore performance on current applications is irrelevant really.
Now, one must look into the future. Assuming people start to support SSE2, which I think they will, the P4 will have a much longer lifespan, because its performance will improve significantly.
If this sounds confusing, sorry, i'm not a writer. But to sum it all up, when system requirements on applications grow closer to 1 GHZ and up, thats when the performance will really matter. Since, by that time SSE2 will probably be part of most applications, the P4 enjoys a significant benefit that Athlon users will not.
Post your opinions on my thoughts. Cause this is seriously starting to make me think of just going and buying a P4 instead of the Athlon DDR i originally intended.
-Jason "MilkDud" Falk
Many people are arguing about which is better, the P4 or Athlon. I myself was gonna buy an AMD DDR system when they become available. However, with these new benchmarks being released I had to sit and think about which one I should actually get. I came up with a conclusion that I believe is pretty valid, although there is still not enough information to back it up, and I myself question it, but it is nonetheless interesting.
Both the Athlon and P4 are very fast when running current applications of any kind, getting one processor instead of the other does not determine if the program will work or not, but only small performance differences like a few fps, which is not noticable. Therefore performance on current applications is irrelevant really.
Now, one must look into the future. Assuming people start to support SSE2, which I think they will, the P4 will have a much longer lifespan, because its performance will improve significantly.
If this sounds confusing, sorry, i'm not a writer. But to sum it all up, when system requirements on applications grow closer to 1 GHZ and up, thats when the performance will really matter. Since, by that time SSE2 will probably be part of most applications, the P4 enjoys a significant benefit that Athlon users will not.
Post your opinions on my thoughts. Cause this is seriously starting to make me think of just going and buying a P4 instead of the Athlon DDR i originally intended.
-Jason "MilkDud" Falk