Switch to LGA?

[quicksilverXP]

So as of now I am pretty content with my Athlon64 setup... but then I came across some awesome LGA 775 results at XS of PC ICE (overclocking guru) from XS on an Abit AA8 and Centon DDR2. Cooling is STOCK... although he tried it with what he considered "LIGHT" phase change at -45.... can't wait to see what he'll get at below -100. Here are the results...

Here's more of his work at the Centon forums...
http://centon.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=3030098252&f=3660031452&m=4800096372
Part # I believe for this mem is CIG/INXN


Superpi at 33s and Sandra over 8,000 is awesome on stock cooling. What do you guys think.

 

[xonik]

Synthetic benchmarks are one thing, but I think you should keep reality in perspective as you make comparisons.

 

[quicksilverXP]

Synthetic benchmarks are one thing, but I think you should keep reality in perspective as you make comparisons.

I never made any comparisons. If I did... I would have posted some results with my Athlon64 setup running at 31sec Superpi and over 7,000 with memory (on water though). I simply listed the results as something to look at because it was something worth noting. In terms or real benchmarking... a P4 at 4 gigs on STOCK, although not quite as good as an Athlon64... will perform well in real testing as well... and if you deny that (which from your time here at [H] I hope you're not) then what kind of overclocker are you?

 

[xonik]

Wow, I didn't mean to affront you. You say that an overclocked Pentium 4 would perform nearly as well as an Athlon 64. Then what? You're risking the stability of your system, yet the performance is still worse? Sounds foolish to me. Of course, I don't know what kinds of real applications you are focusing on, so maybe I'm off-base.

 

[merlin704]

Wow, I didn't mean to affront you. You say that an overclocked Pentium 4 would perform nearly as well as an Athlon 64. Then what? You're risking the stability of your system, yet the performance is still worse? Sounds foolish to me. Of course, I don't know what kinds of real applications you are focusing on, so maybe I'm off-base.

See sig. 0 stability issues and has been running Prime95 for 18hrs.

 

[quicksilverXP]

Wow, I didn't mean to affront you. You say that an overclocked Pentium 4 would perform nearly as well as an Athlon 64. Then what? You're risking the stability of your system, yet the performance is still worse? Sounds foolish to me. Of course, I don't know what kinds of real applications you are focusing on, so maybe I'm off-base.

No.... I'm saying that an overclocked Pentium4 would perform nearly as well... maybe not as well... as an OVERCLOCKED Athlon64. In this case... stability in both platforms are compromised. I assume you know little about Athlon64s considering you assumed a 31sec SuperPi benchmark and a 7,000 Sandra mem benchmark was a regular nonoverclocked Athlon64. Not even a stock FX can achieve those numbers.

 

[xonik]

My recollection of statistics involving synthetic benchmarks is limited, but I know quite a bit about the Athon 64 architecture. I don't see how you are making this into a personal matter, questioning my background, so I think I'll see my way out of this thread.

 

[quicksilverXP]

No... didn't mean for anything to be personal.... just thought it was rather odd someone though a 31sec Superpi and 7000 Sandra mem for an athlon 64 was stock.