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P4 or Amd Athlon 3200?

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Name: nramjieawan
Date: June 20, 2004 at 20:06:27 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: P4 1.6/512MB of RAM
Comment:

I play alot of games like UT2004, Warcraft 3, Counter Strike etc. I recently had a P4 3.0 Gig chip, 1 Gig ram, 128 mb ati aiw vid card. The P4 chip burnt out on me. So i decided to go with the Amd Athlon XP 3200 (barton), and the nvidia geforce fx 5700 256 mb card. Would this be equilavent or better than my previous system?



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Response Number 1
Name: johnoh
Date: June 20, 2004 at 20:26:01 Pacific
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depends totally on what ati aiw card you had


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Response Number 2
Name: jam
Date: June 21, 2004 at 06:10:00 Pacific
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Just curious...how did you burn out your P4?


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Response Number 3
Name: nramjieawan
Date: June 21, 2004 at 08:13:56 Pacific
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I think the chip was defective from the beginning. When I first installed the chip it was running at 65-69 degreees celcius. I have 6 fans in my pc and a thermaltake cpu fan. One day it just stopped working. When I tooke it out it was way 2 hot an stuck to the heatsink.


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Response Number 4
Name: Sabertooth
Date: June 21, 2004 at 08:59:06 Pacific
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You probably should take a closer look @ that CPU fan too, can it still be trusted?

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Response Number 5
Name: nramjieawan
Date: June 21, 2004 at 09:18:44 Pacific
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Well i ordered a whole new system. I got an Amd Athlon XP 3200 (barton). 1 Gig RAM, Nvidia GeForce 5700 256 MB card. I'm hoping this out performs the P4. I minly play alot of games on my pc. Do you think is will be good?


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Response Number 6
Name: quikstop
Date: June 21, 2004 at 12:47:08 Pacific
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Yes ! i find that out after comparing my bros 2.4ghz oc @ 3.4 ghz p4 p4pe-bp mobo 512 pc3200 ram ! i have nf7-s mobo 2500+ oc @ 3200+ 512 pc3500 ram i took it all the way up to 2.8ghz stable but full load was 60c
so i went down a lil bit we both have same cards 256 xfx5700 prolink ! my comp perform 30% better then my bros p4 !

overall IMHO AMD3200+ 400fsb is 30% better then a oc 3.4Ghz 533 FSB that is never tryed with 800fsb or HTT :/

( GET ATLEST GEG RAM IF YOU GOT AMD PC3200 OR PC3500 allmost same price )

-QuIk

Abit NF7-S 2.0
Mobile 2500+ @ 2.5.3ghz 40c Idel 66c Full Load!
Blitz PC3500 2x512 Ram
SATA 74GB HD WD Raptor
XFX FX5700 Ultra 256 Video Card ! ( Dual Monitor 2 LCD ) !
500watt Super x A


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Response Number 7
Name: johnoh
Date: June 21, 2004 at 19:31:38 Pacific
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in a perfect world every poster would give their age


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Response Number 8
Name: Janos
Date: June 21, 2004 at 19:38:12 Pacific
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Johnoh !!!

Thumbs up mate !!


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Response Number 9
Name: ArchAngel
Date: July 2, 2004 at 12:33:07 Pacific
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Ladies and Gentlemen
I present to you benchmark results from the most respected and trusted site on the web.

In here you will see that the P4's totally outperform any AMD crap on any level, when you bench them 'as is', the P4 2.8HT(that i have) clearly even outperforms the AMD 3200+ wich in pricing is very much the same. AMD Lovers - please don't go through the whole review or you will come out crying.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030923/athlon_64-22.html#opengl_benchmarks

P4 Ace


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are these okay temps.? DOS game on 120 Mhz Intel...



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