AMD 64 3200+ or P4 2.80A?

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runbird05

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Ordering a new notebook off of HP's site, and for approximately the same system (same RAM, drives, video card, ect.), and the same exact price, I can either get a P4 2.80A with 533 FSB and no HT, or an AMD 64 3200+ @ 2.00 GHz.

I've been reading a little bit and thinking the AMD may be better, but I don't have a great amount of experience with processors and such, so what would all of you computer whizzes recommend?
 
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I would say go with the AMD unless you will be doing a lot of media encoding (audio, video)
 
Well, the 3400+ that I ordered only comes in Socket754 I believe, so that answers that one, so I'd assume the others would also be of the 754 variety. I'm sure they're going with the lower performance one to save on costs because most customers either don't realize the difference or don't care I guess.
 
Games or Number Crunching.

If your a gamer Id go with the 64, I got it great chip. Even crunches numbers decent. Yet the prescott core in the Pentium is a little better with data crunching....

Id go with the 64
 
Well, the 3400+ that I ordered only comes in Socket754 I believe
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Well if you ordered a socket754 then it should only come in socket754. But sicne you've not specified then make sure you get the socket version you're expecting

Yet the prescott core in the Pentium is a little better with data crunching....
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??? What feature set of the Prescotts is dedicated for number crunching?? Why dont benchmarks confirm this? Why doesnt reality confirm this? (i.e., Mathematica, Maple, Matlab etc)

go with amd there far the cheapest like buying memory motherboards etc
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Well if you buy a socket754 (which was designated as a budget/mainstream version) chip perhaps, not the case with the socket939 setups

Would the 3200+ (socket 939) be better than the 3400+ (socket 754)? I thought it would be...
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And which 3400 are you talking about?
 
For the same price, i would go with the AMD for games, however I would go with the P4 if your not going to play many games.
 
Its true

??? What feature set of the Prescotts is dedicated for number crunching?? Why dont benchmarks confirm this? Why doesnt reality confirm this? (i.e., Mathematica, Maple, Matlab etc)


Common man you have to admit that the presscott gives better numbers in many occassions. I have seen benchmarks that have beat a few amd chips... Now I wouldn't diss Amd, I love mine and I wouldnt buy anything else Im just stating the facts.... By the way how do I get a different status besides computer newbie...

P.S. Most of the time these numbers aren't noticable by performance...
P.S.S. It wouldnt be a feature it would be a combination of hardware.
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Common man you have to admit that the presscott gives better numbers in many occassions. I have seen benchmarks that have beat a few amd chips... Now I wouldn't diss Amd, I love mine and I wouldnt buy anything else Im just stating the facts.... By the way how do I get a different status besides computer newbie...
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1. You get a massive credibility jump when you can provide proof by fact rather than proof by 'obvious conjecture'

2. How exactly does the Prescott surpass the Athlon64 in floating point math calculations?

P.S. Most of the time these numbers aren't noticable by performance...
P.S.S. It wouldnt be a feature it would be a combination of hardware.
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Sounds an awful lot like backpedalling ....


4W4K3 ... new thread please :) (i shoulda broke it earlier)
 
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