You might feel that the X2 4800+ looks very pretty on paper, but if you have no yearn for the digital lifestyle it may look like an expensive luxury. We wondered about that so we ran the same real world usability test that we performed on the Pentium Extreme Edition and Armari dual 875. We loaded up Bit Defender anti-virus and iTunes, and set the two applications running. While Bit Defender ran a full system virus scan we started to encode three albums of MP3 files to AAC format with iTunes, and then we started to play Doom 3.
With the FX-53 processor in our test system Bit Defender pegged the CPU at 100 per usage, and after we started iTunes encoding, Doom 3 simply refused to open, let alone play.
It was a completely different story with the X2 4800+ which could split the workload between the two cores, so running iTunes barely made an impression. With both iTunes and Bit Defender running we were able to play Doom 3 without any dropped frames, and although the processor was working very hard it was completely invisible to us.
So you see, there is a benefit to gamers from dual-core right now: you can run other applications while you're gaming without shedding game performance. Your favourite game won't get any faster until it's coded to run as more than one thread, but it won't slow down significantly if you want to run stuff in the background.
NV Monitor shows that the X2 4800+ was running at a mere 37°C and the Thermaltake heatsink was cool to the touch.
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From theregister.com about the X2
Mmm...interesting how everyone is always bitching how much opower Intel consumes, and how little AMD...and how much heat is generated.So add a graphics card or two (SLi) and you would need at least a 450W PSU just to have a semi stable system. Then you'd need to add watercooling or something better and then your power
Let me tell you a little story: I owed an Intel 3.4EE, overclocked it to 4.2gig, and now have an AMD FX55, overclocked to around 3.1gig. When running both on the VapoLS phase change unit, the FX55 actually managed around 0 to -1 deg C, and the 3.4EE managed around -10 deg C.
Which shows me that the Intel ran quite a lot cooler, or, dissipated less heat. This is not a debate about who is the fastest, the best, yet, as no one here have had their hands on these cpu's, to see what can be had from them.
The new Dual-core Intel Extreme will of course run hotter, and consume more power, if the Hyperthreading side is enabled, enabling it to run 4 threads in parallel.
Always amazes me how people test cpu's, just to highlight strongpoints of one, and downfalls of another.
For the same reason why FX55 can't compare to A64X2 when running dual-threaded apps, for that same reason A64X2 will pale when it have to run 4 apps compared to the Extreme Intel dual.
Give this time to mature before me make assumptions, or draw conclusions. I reckon by a year from now, we will see Dothan duals, and I am willing to put my FX55/SLI rig on the line that those Dothans are going to sweep the floor with every other cpu out there
Guyz, I have mentioned this before, it is ok to be a fanboy, if you have reason to be! It means basically to not shoot down the other guy, until you have tried both. For everything else than gaming, I still would luv to have my old Northwood P4 clocked to 4gig, over my FX55.
And with SLI gfx, it doesn't really matter, the Northwood would give me as much fun as the FX55, and o yeah, before I forget, as some guys say Hyperthreading doesn't mean anything.......I could run a few sessions, be on the net, and do a SuperPI, still coming in at around 40sec when clocked to a nice 4.3gig.
In contrast, doing any of that on my A64 setup, would simply take a minute or longer! While there may be those of us that just play games everyday on their systems, quite a few will also use their systems for actual work? It is always lekker, being able to be connected to the Internet, with Norton Corporate 7.61 running with File System Real Time Checking enabled, burning a DVD in the background, and playing your favorite FPS.
So, as I said before, just because you own an AMD, or Intel, and have never used something else, or maybe used the other brand, like 5 years ago, doesn't make it the best....maybe for you, but, for the other guy, with different criteria, the other brand may be the better option.
I have proven time and time again, give me an Intel, and I will be very competitive to any AMD out there, yes even FX55. Still now, after 5 months, I have the record with an Intel 3.4EE, and 6800 Ultra, where I simply wiped the floor with every FX55/ATI combo in this country. That would be in 3dMark2003.
So, all the Amdroits, explain that one, if Intel is so crap. Yes, the other guys were using Prometeias on the FX55's, and chilled water on their gfx cards as well!
Just for the record, incase you guys wondered, both my rigs at home are AMD A64...mine is FX55/SLI 6800U, my wifes is A64 3500/X800-Plat.
I wonder why it is then that I still miss my Intel 32bit Northwood? For 80% of the things I do on my PC on a daily base?
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The Intel P4 EE cpu produces around the same, if not slightly more heat than the Prescott.
It was the Gallatin core, not Northwood
My point is that both AMD and Intel are so close to each other, in terms of capability, heat produced, benchmarks...... they are 2 very different architectures, yet perform so similar.
It is like an argument between 2 petrolheads - which is best...a V8 5.7Liter, naturally aspirated engine producing 350kW, and 600nM torque, or a Turbocharged 3 liter engine, boosted to 14psi, making around the same power?
Both have their strong, and weak points.
Same with Intel, and AMD.
But, I guess it is not really productive to argue over this topic, same with ATI vs nVidia, as no one is really right...or wrong. What is good for you, may not be what I am looking for, and vice-versa.
It is just sad that everyone is dissing Intel, well, almost everyone, and they don't understand the difference between a capacitor and a resistor
But, enough said. It is difficult to prove which cpu is the best - if there is such a thing. Currently there is no single cpu that is best for everything. For any guy here, that wants to argue, bring your best Amd cpu, and I will bring you an Intel that will kill it in some benchies. Same goes the other way
Use whatever you fancy, makes no difference to me.
Not aimed at you, Jedi, just a generalisation.
Enjoy the weekend then. Me back to GTR....hehe.
It was the Gallatin core, not Northwood
My point is that both AMD and Intel are so close to each other, in terms of capability, heat produced, benchmarks...... they are 2 very different architectures, yet perform so similar.
It is like an argument between 2 petrolheads - which is best...a V8 5.7Liter, naturally aspirated engine producing 350kW, and 600nM torque, or a Turbocharged 3 liter engine, boosted to 14psi, making around the same power?
Both have their strong, and weak points.
Same with Intel, and AMD.
But, I guess it is not really productive to argue over this topic, same with ATI vs nVidia, as no one is really right...or wrong. What is good for you, may not be what I am looking for, and vice-versa.
It is just sad that everyone is dissing Intel, well, almost everyone, and they don't understand the difference between a capacitor and a resistor
But, enough said. It is difficult to prove which cpu is the best - if there is such a thing. Currently there is no single cpu that is best for everything. For any guy here, that wants to argue, bring your best Amd cpu, and I will bring you an Intel that will kill it in some benchies. Same goes the other way
Use whatever you fancy, makes no difference to me.
Not aimed at you, Jedi, just a generalisation.
Enjoy the weekend then. Me back to GTR....hehe.
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MrBean wrote: It is just sad that everyone is dissing Intel, well, almost everyone, and they don't understand the difference between a capacitor and a resistor
Well, i do know the difference between a Cap and a resistor. (I had better, I'm 2nd Year electronic Engineering)
But, i guess this argument, like the one about the chicken and the egg won't ever be solved until the one disapears. I remebember about 6-7 years ago when everyone (and his dog) insisted on a Intel, and they wouldn't touch a AMD with a ten foot pole. Looks like it might be slowly turning around.
Thats the way of the world.
Well Fact is, the Dothan is Socket479 which is only electrically compatible with Socket478 by means of an adapter. Then again this adapter only runs on Asus boards and there's just 5 approved models at the moment, with only one PCI-Express based board, which is anyway no-where to be seen and so Dothan stays more something for the real insider. Yes, I am currently looking to get the CT479 adapter myself and a P4P800-SE, but then again I won't break any records with an AGP card. Dothan will still remain a niche solution until there's some SLI/MultiVPU/whatever boards out there. And as Intel is pretty retarded at the moment and believes their NetBurst architecture is _so_ good, they would never want to have Dothan on the desktop, just for the reason that at 27W it would own their own crappy Prescotts at 60% clock speed. And let's not forget that the FPUs/ALUs of the NetBurst run at twice the core clock and still get owned by their P6/AMD Quantispeed architecture. Some day Intel will probably realise that Pentium-M is the future and their NetBurst architecture was pretty useless. Throw in Hyper-Threading to utilise all those numerous and lousy long pipelines, and heck, everything's fine again. Add some nice numbers like "3.4GHz" and Joe Sixpack wants it just for the nice numbers. Yes, AMD gets the hails, Intel the sales (quote from overclockers.com).
NetBurst is an ineffective architecture, and the 'philosophy' behind it is total rubbish. They compromise for the miss predictions in their CPU by decreasing the clock cycle, but having a far more efficient architecture is more important, and P6 still employs this principle. MrBean, as nice as all your expensive stuff is, 99% of mankind won't be able to buy those things. It's just to darn expensive. And heck, we don't want to compare FX55 and an EE, because well, there's no sense in doing it. We're far more interested in seeing how good a Venice 3200+ clocks, or how good (whatever, anyways) the Pentium-D is. And fact is, I pay less for something similar equivalent from AMD than from Intel. Those Prescott and, worse, those 6xx series prices are horrendous. Sure, Dothan prices are even more horrendous, but I'd pay R200 more for something that I could even cool with a Zalman flower cooler, and performs equivalently. The idea between smooth computing is balancing the CPU load, and HyperThreading manages this somehow, as it utilises the pipelines better. Again, there wouldn't be all too much sense in integrating HyperThreading into a CPU with a 10-stage pipelines. But anyways, RISC has always been better
NetBurst is an ineffective architecture, and the 'philosophy' behind it is total rubbish. They compromise for the miss predictions in their CPU by decreasing the clock cycle, but having a far more efficient architecture is more important, and P6 still employs this principle. MrBean, as nice as all your expensive stuff is, 99% of mankind won't be able to buy those things. It's just to darn expensive. And heck, we don't want to compare FX55 and an EE, because well, there's no sense in doing it. We're far more interested in seeing how good a Venice 3200+ clocks, or how good (whatever, anyways) the Pentium-D is. And fact is, I pay less for something similar equivalent from AMD than from Intel. Those Prescott and, worse, those 6xx series prices are horrendous. Sure, Dothan prices are even more horrendous, but I'd pay R200 more for something that I could even cool with a Zalman flower cooler, and performs equivalently. The idea between smooth computing is balancing the CPU load, and HyperThreading manages this somehow, as it utilises the pipelines better. Again, there wouldn't be all too much sense in integrating HyperThreading into a CPU with a 10-stage pipelines. But anyways, RISC has always been better
For now that isWell Fact is, the Dothan is Socket479 which is only electrically compatible with Socket478 by means of an adapter
Have you missed the piece where Intel is removing NetBurst from their lineup? Before 2 years are out we will have new architecture to play with....I think little sooner, but let's be conservative. Should make for interesting times, surely.....And as Intel is pretty retarded at the moment and believes their NetBurst architecture is _so_ good, they would never want to have Dothan on the desktop,
Anyway Soap, if you get the Dothan, keep me posted, my guess is you would have good fun with it. It is a very nice cpu for gaming....not really good for things like Adobe Photoshop or other bandwidth intensive Multimedia apps, but anything to do with number crunching...yummy...
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To compete Internationally, and get in the Top10, that is what you need. It is not for everyone, it is expensive.MrBean, as nice as all your expensive stuff is, 99% of mankind won't be able to buy those things.
There is, however, as much fun with a 6600GT SLI combo, and 3200 Winnie setup. a Lot cheaper, and as enjoyable. Or maybe a Prescott 3.2 clocked to 4.7gig? Anyone...hehe.
I am quite serious about my benching, just as a Professional Cyclist would be about his sport.....or whatever you decide to turn Pro in.
If you can turn Pro in a thing such as Benching.
But, I am off-topic. Let's get back on track
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We as the consumers dont want this to happen. It'll be like a telkom sinario where we'll pay our buts of or have no choise but to leave pc's all together(which i cant imagine most of use pc freeks can live without ) & they sit back making all the moneyBut, i guess this argument, like the one about the chicken and the egg won't ever be solved until the one disapears.
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The only problem with the Dothan is that most bandwidth intensive applications like Photoshop are also heavily optimized for SSE, and so the Dothan isn't optimal. Though overclocking it to a 200MHz bus resulted in the same bandwidth as a real NetBurst CPU. It's all about the bus.MrBean wrote:For now that isWell Fact is, the Dothan is Socket479 which is only electrically compatible with Socket478 by means of an adapter
Have you missed the piece where Intel is removing NetBurst from their lineup? Before 2 years are out we will have new architecture to play with....I think little sooner, but let's be conservative. Should make for interesting times, surely.....And as Intel is pretty retarded at the moment and believes their NetBurst architecture is _so_ good, they would never want to have Dothan on the desktop,
Anyway Soap, if you get the Dothan, keep me posted, my guess is you would have good fun with it. It is a very nice cpu for gaming....not really good for things like Adobe Photoshop or other bandwidth intensive Multimedia apps, but anything to do with number crunching...yummy...
edit; Removed silly/stupid comment. soz guys!
To compete Internationally, and get in the Top10, that is what you need. It is not for everyone, it is expensive.MrBean, as nice as all your expensive stuff is, 99% of mankind won't be able to buy those things.
There is, however, as much fun with a 6600GT SLI combo, and 3200 Winnie setup. a Lot cheaper, and as enjoyable. Or maybe a Prescott 3.2 clocked to 4.7gig? Anyone...hehe.
I am quite serious about my benching, just as a Professional Cyclist would be about his sport.....or whatever you decide to turn Pro in.
If you can turn Pro in a thing such as Benching.
But, I am off-topic. Let's get back on track
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i would trust the first 2 as they have similar tempsLeprechaun wrote:I'm confused.Which of the following should i trust:
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When i feel the H/s it's not hot at all.
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Getting back to the topic...
Well there is a very good chance I'll be able to get a new system soon, we talking about within the next month or so.
Now the big question is which CPU manufacturer? Since this determines pretty much the rest of my system. (yeah yeah I know it was expected)
I'm not biased towards either of the two manufacturers and do understand that both have their advantages. I'd just like to get some guidelines though.
I'm predominantly a gamer and movie addict but also use my PC for work. I'm heading into the IT industry either into web design or programming.
I generally have several of the following types of applications running at any given time. Such as: an internet browser, an email client, a media player (gotta have music ^_^ ), an IRC client, an instant messenger, a torrent client, Photoshop, some Microsoft Office app, some text editor for coding, etc... obviously not forgetting all the background apps preventing nasty things from happening to my PC ^_^
This is obviously quite a load, especially if most are running at the same time (which is often the case).
So now, which brand do you think would be best suited to run such a workload?
Some other things to consider is that I'm definitely thinking of going Dual-Core once AMD & Intel DC prices drop and that I want to overclock my system a bit... just enough to get my moneys worth without going crazy =P
So yeah, a dual-core compliant chipset is essential.
As to the overclocking, well that's easy: a nice and spiffy Asus MoBo will do the trick. They own in every respect!
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Well there is a very good chance I'll be able to get a new system soon, we talking about within the next month or so.
Now the big question is which CPU manufacturer? Since this determines pretty much the rest of my system. (yeah yeah I know it was expected)
I'm not biased towards either of the two manufacturers and do understand that both have their advantages. I'd just like to get some guidelines though.
I'm predominantly a gamer and movie addict but also use my PC for work. I'm heading into the IT industry either into web design or programming.
I generally have several of the following types of applications running at any given time. Such as: an internet browser, an email client, a media player (gotta have music ^_^ ), an IRC client, an instant messenger, a torrent client, Photoshop, some Microsoft Office app, some text editor for coding, etc... obviously not forgetting all the background apps preventing nasty things from happening to my PC ^_^
This is obviously quite a load, especially if most are running at the same time (which is often the case).
So now, which brand do you think would be best suited to run such a workload?
Some other things to consider is that I'm definitely thinking of going Dual-Core once AMD & Intel DC prices drop and that I want to overclock my system a bit... just enough to get my moneys worth without going crazy =P
So yeah, a dual-core compliant chipset is essential.
As to the overclocking, well that's easy: a nice and spiffy Asus MoBo will do the trick. They own in every respect!
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