Athlon XP 2000+ Review

[Jerry Jones]

...and it's said to be faster than the Intel Pentium 4 2gHz processor by a considerable margin:

http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=axp2000&page=1&mscssid=&tp=

[Damascus]

Now to find out if it can do DVD resolution MPEG2 capture in real-time...

[Greebe]

A Tbird at 1.4gHz will beat a P4 @2gHz in almost every benchmark... so it's not suprising at all the a 2gHz XP cpu will beat the same chip from Intel

[Damascus]

Originally posted by Greebe
A Tbird at 1.4gHz will beat a P4 @2gHz in almost every benchmark... so it's not suprising at all the a 2gHz XP cpu will beat the same chip from Intel

It's not really 2GHz. It's 1.67GHz I think. Still, it doesn't change the fact that it is faster.

[Greebe]

Oh excuse me for the typo... it's that BS PR rating thing

[Snake-Eyes]

I love Athlon processors (and I'm a first time convert, since I'm using a 1.33Ghz T-Bird as my first, overclocked to 1.55Ghz of course), but I wish that they'd do away with that blasted PR rating thing, since it gets me a bit confused too. I've found myself having to look up the actual clock speeds when my friends ask now, lol.

Anyway, I can't wait until May. I'll finally be able to afford another motherboard and processor upgrade then.

[Greebe]

I didn't say everything... but most things that consumers want and do... yes it does

[Greebe]

Whoa that's interesting!

the post above was sent after Jerrolds and yet it's above with the correct timestamp... server got a hiccup Ant?

[Jerry Jones]

Greebe wrote:

"A Tbird at 1.4gHz will beat a P4 @2gHz in almost every benchmark... so it's not suprising at all the a 2gHz XP cpu will beat the same chip from Intel"

I use a Thunderbird 1.4gHz.

I also use a Pentium 4 1.7gHz.

What you state is not accurate:

http://www.hyperactivemusic.com/MS%20Pro%206.0.htm

I like my 1.4gHz Thunderbird machine, though.

It rocks.

[Jerry Jones]

Anandtech's tests concluded the Pentium 4 2gHz chip was too expensive, but in many benchmarks it did outperform the Athlon 1.4, but not in all of them, however.

Still, the 2gHz Pentium 4 did better in many "consumer" tasks:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1524&p=13

[Greebe]

OMG he said Anandt*ch! lol

[Jerry Jones]

I was referring to the *site* - it's

http://www.anandtech.com

Anyway, I'm the one who is LOL as you were the one proven to have made a largely inaccurate claim about the 1.4gHz Thunderbird relative to its performance against the Pentium 4 2gHz.

Ha!

[Greebe]

ROTFLMAOATPMP (check out this genius)

[Indiana]

Jerrold, sorry but I have to disagree.
You can sure have different opinions about the quality of analtech' reviews (they're at least better than THG, IMO), but even in the test you linked to, the AthlonC 1.4GHz is beating the P-IV 2GHz in nearly all tests that are important to the "average" user.
The only tests where the P-IV won were:

- QIII (O.K., this is the only test that does matter to the average user)
- DroneZ
- The INet content creation SysMark2001, which is flawed, since the result of one test (WME, patched specifically to look good on the P-IV) dominates the total result - MadOnion tactics, anyone?

The people I know that are into video-capturing/-editing are NOT using WME at all, but DivX, TsunamiMPEG and various other encoders.

The take into account that this was not an AthlonXP@1.4 GHz (would be a 1600+) and they used a very questionable mainboard for the Athlon: the el-cheapo ECS SIS735 board, really not the fastest out there and for sure not the most stable when you have a high clocked CPU.
We have not even mentioned price yet...

[AlgoRhythm]

And Ulead MSPro is one of the few apps that has had support for SSE2 on the PIV from the get-go. If it didn't I don't think you'd see those types of results. You don't from hardly anything else.


AlgoRhythm