Which Is better? An Athlon or a Pentium?

quote:Original post by Martee
I''m sure I will get flamed by people on both sides now

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quote:Original post by Martee
See, I was right.

No one has said anything flamish yet, how are you right ?

This isn''t a flame war.

I would like to know what the technical difference is, honestly. If it''s a flame war, it''s a bunch of people bad talking the _names_ "Athlon" and "Pentium." If it''s a technical discussion, you consider the voltage, cache memory (what is that exactly?), efficiency, and circumstantial performances.

By "circumstantial performance", I mean how a CPU is faster when 4 programs are running on 2 different threads than it is when 50 programs are running on 100 threads. No P4 will always move at 2 Ghz. It''s not going to happen. When you have the MS Office toolbar running in the background w/ a bunch of resident programs running alongside it, on top of Quake 3, that P4 will slow down to hog heaven (what is _that_ exactly?).

Also, the statement that an Athlon is better than a Pentium is actually true. The statement that an Athlon is better than a P3 or P4 is arguable. Older Athlon models move at 750Mhz, and newer models move at well over 1Ghz. Later Penium models move at 266Mhz, and the latest P4 reached a 2Ghz benchmark. So yes, an Athlon is better than a Pentium [1].

I doubt you will get a serious discussion here, we are mostly kids trapped in young adults/adults bodies, isnt it obvious from the fact that we all play and want to make games???

P.S.: AMD ROCKS!!!
is faster and cheaper.

Edit: changed Athlon to AMD, gotta love the whole company



Edited by - kwizatz on January 31, 2002 10:54:18 PM

Edited by - kwizatz on January 31, 2002 11:03:56 PM

Pentium is like a crappy import car. you have to rev up high in order to get power.

Athlon is like an american muscle car. all the power is down low.