Pentium 4 XE Series Vs Athlon 64 X2 Series

[Sadler]

Please remember that the Athlon 64 X2's still use the old DDR 400 memory where as the new P4 XE (Dual Cores) use the new DDRII 667 memory...

If anyone has used either of these please write a small review.

Yes I know the new M2 chipset coming up "Should" support DDRII in the near future but it doesnt explain how the bottle neck on the old memory still rapes P4 on some benchmarks with DDRII 667.

Please give me your feed back

Im looking for users that have used either of these for High End gaming and number crunching work (rendering & encoding)

Cheersola

[Shinigami]

I've got a duel P4 With 1 gig of DDR2 , along with my graphics card (6800 Geforce pci 16x blah blah blah 256 meg) I can run WoW and Doom 3 at the same time while atl tabbing between the 2, neither lags while the other is up just some load time between swapping, like 2-5 seconds. I have both wow and Doom3 on the highest settings possible.

So yeah, if you got the money p4 ftw, and as much DDR2 as you can afford (I've seen 8 gigs at most so far and a 1 TB Harddrive 0.0)

I benched a 9783 on my Benchmark#3 from PoL.

[Ludaen]

And how rich are you?

[Ashen]

So yeah, if you got the money p4 ftw, and as much DDR2 as you can afford (I've seen 8 gigs at most so far and a 1 TB Harddrive 0.0)

DANCE DANCE REVOLUTIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

=/ bored

[Sadler]

Ok here is my plan for the next upgrade. I have £1800 for my rebuild.

2 x Corsair 1GB DDR2-6400 128Mx64 non-ECC 240 DIMM unbuffered 5-5-5-12 Heat Spreader

Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal Intel SKT775 1066FSB DDR2 PCI-E SLI

Intel Pentium D 840 3.2Ghz Skt 775 Fsb 800 2 x 1Mb Cache Retail

2 x Gigabyte Geforce 7800 GTX G70 256MB 256bit GV-NX78X256V-B PCI-E 24 pixel pipelines!


Gotta spend 70-80+ on a good 500W V12 PSU awel

[Sadler]

Anyone know any good boards that support DDR500 for the AMD64?

Asus A8N-SLI Delux is all I could find... but even there offical website doesnt say it supports it..

[Sadler]

Dear Chris,

This email is to acknowledge placement of order number *******.

You have ordered the following items:

Item: AMD Athlon 64 (ADA4400CDBOX) X2 4400+ socket 939 2.2Ghz 1Mb and
1Mb Cache
Qty: 1
Cost: £350.95

Item: Maxtor 6L250S0 Diamondmax 10 250GB 7200rpm Serial ATA150 16mb
Cache - OEM
Qty: 1
Cost: £81.64

Item: Pioneer DVR-109 16x Multiple Format DVD Writer in Black - OEM
Qty: 1
Cost: £29.60

Item: Antec Psu/12v Ac 550w Atx F True Ii
Qty: 1
Cost: £97.61

Item: Antec Super Lanboy ATX Case With 2x120mm Fans and No PSU
Qty: 1
Cost: £51.07

Item: XFX GEFORCE 7800GTX 256MB DDR3 TV + DUAL DVI PCI-E **the most powerful chip on the market**
Qty: 2
Cost: £630.92

Item: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe S939 NF4 SLI ATX - Sound 2xgln 1394 USB2 SATA
Qty: 1
Cost: £85.23

Item: Corsair (TWINX1024-4000PRO), 1024MB (2x 512MB Matched Pair),
DDR500 / PC4000, non-ECC,
Unbuffered, 3-4-4-8, Lifetime Warranty, Black Heatsink with 18 activity
LED
Qty: 1
Cost: £151.84


Subtotal: £1507.00
VAT total: £263.77
------------
Total: £1770.77

Im a bad man

[Septimus]

Ok here is my plan for the next upgrade. I have £1800 for my rebuild.

2 x Corsair 1GB DDR2-6400 128Mx64 non-ECC 240 DIMM unbuffered 5-5-5-12 Heat Spreader

Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal Intel SKT775 1066FSB DDR2 PCI-E SLI

Intel Pentium D 840 3.2Ghz Skt 775 Fsb 800 2 x 1Mb Cache Retail

2 x Gigabyte Geforce 7800 GTX G70 256MB 256bit GV-NX78X256V-B PCI-E 24 pixel pipelines!


Gotta spend 70-80+ on a good 500W V12 PSU awel

Luj, I don't understand any of that, but you know that I love it when you talk nerdy to me.

[raginbull]

A bad man and a rich man

[Mogi]

lol chris your upgrade is almost the same as mine, except the graphic cards i got a x850 pci-e instead, but memory and everything else is the same. I love it, i got 6000 on that ffxi benchmark. you'll probably hit 7000 with 2 cards which is like the max.

[Sadler]

lol chris your upgrade is almost the same as mine, except the graphic cards i got a x850 pci-e instead, but memory and everything else is the same. I love it, i got 6000 on that ffxi benchmark. you'll probably hit 7000 with 2 cards which is like the max.

How does yours run bro?

[vudoodoodoo]

All that just to browse BG forums a little faster.

[Sadler]

All that just to browse BG forums a little faster.

I dont plan to play FFXI when I get this new machine.

[vudoodoodoo]

LOL it was a joke. :D

[Sadler]

ok, computer is built... I changed my mind the day before it was sent out and this is the result.

AMD 64 FX57 (San Diego)

DFI Lanparty SLI-DR

1st GFX - XFX 7800GTX 256 SLI

2nd GFX - XFX 7800GTX 256 SLI

1GB OCZ DDR550 Pro Edition (2x 512)

HD 1 - 300GB Maxtor DM10 7200RPM 16MB Cache

HD 2 - 300GB Maxtor DM10 7200RPM 16MB Cache

Pioneer DVR-109 16x Multiple Format DVD Writer in Black

Antec TruePower-II 550

Antec P180 Advanced ATX case.

http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/4294/p1807fk.jpg

Benchmarks coming soon :D

[Zigma]

mmmm dual 7800GTX

[kindrell]

http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/4294/p1807fk.jpg

shiney :D

[Sadler]

yea that case is sweet, comes with a black vent box that sits over your PCI-E SLI cards.

*Dribble Dribble* Also the HDD's and PSU has its own cooling area

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/9...91721029ca.jpg

il take afew pictures next week of the guts, wanna get a new CPU fan.

[Kimiko]

Niiiicee... planning on modding the case by any chance, or you sticking with it as is?

[Kiro]

http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/4294/p1807fk.jpg

shiney :D

That looks like a mini-fridge.