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

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SmooveJD   04-12-2002 at 12:58:34 AM

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?

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FatBurger   04-12-2002 at 01:05:19 AM
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What exactly to you mean by "music audio and unreal"?

Intel has the currently fastest x86 processor, yes.

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eden   04-12-2002 at 02:50:11 AM
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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   04-12-2002 at 08:58:59 PM
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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.

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kief   04-13-2002 at 12:04:34 AM
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Just about any current system with a good video and sound card will do both well.

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Matisaro   04-13-2002 at 12:09:10 AM
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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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Anonymous   04-13-2002 at 12:18:53 AM
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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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