P4 vs AMD What's better for Music audio and Unreal

[SmooveJD]

I'm at a crossroads. An egghead buddy of mine told me that the Intel has a new chip that's gonna wup on AMD. Is this true? Does Intel allready have a Better chip. I heard that the XP series AMDs are wuppin' up the Intels. But I'm having issues with my XP, so I'll go with what's the best. What do you guys think?

 

[FatBurger]

What exactly to you mean by "music audio and unreal"?

Intel has the currently fastest x86 processor, yes.

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[eden]

Well given past benchmarks, Unreal favored Athlons.
As for music, some music benchmarks show the Intel winning, while others show Athlons, check THG or Anandtech's MP3 conversion tests.

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[FiL]

i think if you get a top line AthlonXP or a NW P4 then for Unreal and any music application (mp3 encoding, Cubase, Soundforge) your going to have a great system, they'll only be a slight difference between the two systems.


I record a lot of my own music in Cubase - (and do mastering and general audio editing) on a AthlonXP 1900+ (768Mb PC2100 DDR-RAM) and all is very quick and satisfactory.

 

[kief]

Just about any current system with a good video and sound card will do both well.

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[Matisaro]

The 2100+ will perform as well as a 2.2ghz p4, however you will pay 200 more for the p4. Simple choice if you ask me.

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[Guest]

I have a Tbird 1400 and Geforce 256 DDR graphics card and I run Unreal at the highest detail at 1024x768 resolution... runs great. Music...a 500 MHz. anything will run that. Get lots of RAM and a Geforce 2 or higher and it won't matter what CPU you have. Of course, I'm a poor college student, so I like AMD


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