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24th August 2003, 00:37 | #1 |
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| AMD@ 2Ghz vs P4@3.55Ghz: 1-0? I've got my new rig up and running: a P4 2.6C on a 865G motherboard (Asus P4P800-VM). If you disable the onboard grafics (which i did), it performs exactly the same as a 865PE motherboard according to several websites. The cpu is an excellent overclocker: after playing games for a few hours, 3550mhz (273fsb) proved to be fully stable at stock voltage with aircooling. I've reinstalled windows properly on a formatted disk, installed dx9, intel chipset drivers & the latest catalyst drivers. Everyting seems to run ok, but 3Dmark 2001 score is ~15500 and 3dmark 2003 is 6000 (r9800 @ 425/375)... which is about exactly the same as my XP1800+@2000mhz on a budget asus nf2-400 motherboard with silent cooling. The performance difference between the 3:4 / 4:5 memory divider is neglegible. -edit- P4 is single channel (1*256mb bh-5) because it fails to boot with my repaired bh-5 stick, in contrary to the nf2 rig. -edit- Does Intel suck (CPU costs 5 times as much as my AMD), or is something horribly wrong?
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24th August 2003, 00:51 | #2 |
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| our P4 2.53, P4T533 and 256MB RIMM PC1066 performs slightly better then my KR7A, 1700+ at 2Ghz and a stick of 256MB mem at FSB 190 dazzling, I'll never buy Intel again. Intel doesn't suck, they're the fastest... but you do pay the price of it. |
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24th August 2003, 01:07 | #4 |
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| perhaps the high FSB is slowing you down? try lowering the speed a bit, you might get lagspikes in 3dmark if you're clocking too high. |
24th August 2003, 01:35 | #5 |
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| Nope, the score increases linear (14500 at 3000mhz). No glitches whatsoever. What does dragon test stress? It's way too low, but the other scores aren't too good either.
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24th August 2003, 08:38 | #6 |
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| so it's not dual channel ? there's your problem. |
24th August 2003, 10:44 | #7 |
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| dual channel does boost an intel quite substantially... @ 3.5 (as I normally run 24/7) the difference with my 200*10 amd (office pc) is GIGANTIC in favor of the intel...
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24th August 2003, 10:57 | #8 |
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| Do me a favour, dual channel does not give you 5000 extra 3Dmarks. I'd be suprised if it would give me a +500 boost.
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24th August 2003, 11:40 | #9 |
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| just get you another module, plug it in and see for yourself it DOES make a hughe difference. |
24th August 2003, 12:25 | #10 |
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| If i gain 5000 3dmarks, i'll treat you 30L Stella. The motherboard fails to work with the repaired winbond bh-5 stick, so it will take a while before i can test dual channel.
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