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Amd64 or Prescott

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fliptastic

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Is it true Amd64 has better benchmarks for gaming? Also that most p4 chips are good in multimedia. Which is better for a stable fast and reliable processor for gaming. Won't Amd64's last me longer or wut?
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I really dont want to start a flamewar.. but generally, in most benchmarks the Athlon 64's are quicker in games. However, for heavy multitasking, the P4 shines out. Its all about flavor mainly, if your a frequent gamer, grab the A64...if you constantly burn, encode, extract, etc. the p4 will stand out. Myself, Ive actually grown out of the gaming passion I once had, so I may go for intel as my next rig.
 
At this stage, the A64. If you hadn't said prescott, I'd say P4, but I don't think I'd buy a prescott just yet. I'd stay with the northwoods if I were you, unless you have watercooling or something...
 
For gaming the A64 would shine. The Prescotts right now are better used for cooking dinner.
 
Originally posted by fliptastic
Is it true Amd64 has better benchmarks for gaming? Also that most p4 chips are good in multimedia. Which is better for a stable fast and reliable processor for gaming. Won't Amd64's last me longer or wut?
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-flipman
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First of all, www.google.com can really help you out - check reviews on sites like [H]ardOCP and Anandtech.

Both chips will get you stable, fast, and reliable systems. The Athlon64 tends to do better in gaming benchmarks whereas the P4 still has an advantage in the media encoding category. Also, many video editing software packages are optimized for the Intel line.

If you plan on gaming mostly, I really cannot recommend going with the Prescott. Also, I am wondering when the first motherboard catches fire due to someone overvolting a Prescott...Go Athlon 3200+ or 3400+ - the 3400+ is one of the highest perfroming processors out.
 
As pointed out by others in this thread, the Prescott P4 runs quite hot (dissipating 103 Watt vs the Athlon64's 85 or so), so it's not easy to keep it cool with aircooling alone. The Northwood is far less demanding in that respect.

Other than that, if you like the low latency of the Athlon64's on-die memory controller (e.g. games), get the A64.
If you encode lots of multimedia files (audio, video) and/or render stuff in 3D, get the P4.

In all other cases, get the A64.
 
prescot sucks thats all there is to it 64bitvs32 bit and the prescott is a shit overclocker from hwta i hear
 
1.) Real Prescott boards are released
2.) PRescott hits around 4ghz combined with thermaly advantaged CAse


Get the AMD64 or a Northwood @ 3.4
 
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