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jpangelo

jpangelo

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I have been using AMD cpus for a while now, the last Pentium I bought was in 2001 (?) an 800mhz Slot1, on a BE6-2, so it's been a while since my last Intel system. My latest rig is getting a bit long in the tooth, a 3200+A64 939 on Neo2Plat.
I was given a P4 Northwood 2.6c, in an HP box. Intrigued by the smoothness, I kept going back to this P4 box. I copied my favorites into it. I put a 6800GT in it, which ran fine on the stock 240w HP psu. (!) Played games on it, etc, even though the P4 is slower in games, I keep finding myself back on it. I bought a used mobo for it, Abit IS-7, to tweak out the ram, etc.
Hyperthreading. I am *hooked* on this, on how it makes doing things so smooth on my PC. I remember reading an article in a CPU mag last year, by Kyle IIRC, on Hyperthreading and dual core.
One question is, would a dual core AMD 939 (X2) 'feel' like a HT-equipped P4?? If so, I'd make the swap on that board.
I miss some of the speed in the games I still play (mainly WW2Online, which is a CPU killer) ... so I've o/c the 2.6 to around 3.2, nice improvement, (although I keep reminding myself I've gone backward in technology, from the A64 to the Northwood. ) I need a better-than-stock cooler if I continue this...
Or is there a better recomendation? Pentium D ? Or the new Core2Duo ? I've read the forums till I can't see straight, and can't really wrap my head around my next move.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
 
Coming from a 2.8GHZ Opty 146 with 2GB mem myself and the C2D is smoother in desktop operation. It "feels" like a dual core/hyperthreading CPU. That was actually the only thing that ever bugged me about the AMDs i had (mind you, i never had a AMD X2 processor).
 
ScYcS said:
Coming from a 2.8GHZ Opty 146 with 2GB mem myself and the C2D is smoother in desktop operation. It "feels" like a dual core/hyperthreading CPU. That was actually the only thing that ever bugged me about the AMDs i had (mind you, i never had a AMD X2 processor).
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I understand, that is why I went with a Dual Processor Opteron system. At the time I built it, the dual core processors weren't available. My duallie ran just as well as any Intel system in the multi-tasking department, but the Core 2 Duo is definitely faster than my Opteron 254 system was.
 
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