P4 2GHZ or AthlonXP2100

[pp2000]

Hi I'm trying to choose between a P4 2.0Ghz and an Athlon Xp 2001? What do you think is better I'm not a wild overclocker nor gamer and if I can get the speed up by 200Mhz I don't need more. As RDRAM prices have dropped massively the difference between the 845G(I have defintely made up my mind to buy an MSI 845G Max-L mobo if I go w/DDR) with DDR333(w/DDR400 the price is almost the same) and 850 with RDRAM 1066 isnt so bad what would you recommend?There have been lots of rumors that Rambus is well-dead and it is looked upon like an old man on his death bed-how come doesn't rdram hold the best performance,is it such a bad investment?!

 

[jwhee06151]

You might check out my post which is very similar to yours. Apparently there is much debate regarding whether Rdram is going away or not and from the responses that I have received everyone says to go with it as DDR will slow a P4 down. What was you deciding factor on the MB? I am trying to figure out which one to buy and it seems to be between the Abit BD7 II or the Asus P4t533-C. Did you see the sharkyextreme.com article on building a high end gamming machine?

 

[Matisaro]

If you have no qualms about overclocking, you should get the 1.8z northwoodA and run it at 133fsb on a rdram motherboard.

If you are not comfortable overclocking the 2100+ is going to easily be the best bang for your buck, and the p4 2000 is not going to out perform the 2100+ untill it hits around 2250 mhz.



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[pp2000]

I haven't chosen Msi for any part. reason as I live in Bulgaria the ASUS hasn't arrived hear yet but I' hearin very negative opinions about how ABIT have started to downgrade their quality of workmanship. I would buy the ASUS. BTW has anyone heard of the EPOX mobo?

 

[pr497]

epox boards are nice...all i can say about epox is that they get the job done.

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