Well Urban did sort of say this before - but WHY is it so?? looking at the link i posted quite clearly shows the P4 outstrips the A64 on most tests. I suppose you could argue that the A64 can do 64 bit OS etc but XP 64Bit is Kinda BETA still (no drivers) and I thought the whole point of 64bit was to get over the 4 gig ram limit yet the boards only feature 3/4 slots at most - I just dont get it tbh.
Tom’s hardware is bias’d, which is why I stopped reading them about 3 years ago.
As for A64 doing 64bit, the P4 6xx also supports 64bit and drivers have come a long way, including many official drivers from maufactuers. As for ram limits, stick to 32bit where evertything is the same.
As for HC’s comments, pipelines are indirectly responsible only for the fact that they allow for a higher MHZ output, although AMD does quite well with a lower pipeline number. When it comes to things as media encoding, P4 does well because it purely has more MHZ and most of the time AMD’s 9 operations a clock cycle per Intel’s 6 is not enough because the encoding doesn’t use it’s full potential, it needs raw speed.
[quote[Thanks for that Info Holy Cow and Bio, you can understand my wondering when I trawl Benchamrking Sites and see the A64 only really Excells at games. No matter which one I bought anyhow it would be fast, Games I am not fussed about 100%, all the games I have ever played so far are fine at the res my monitor can support (1280x1024) - you tend not to worry about the odd Jaggy line when bombing about in a FPS game tbh.
At the moment it looks like a A64 3800 with GeForce 6600 seems the best option. [/quote]
Well, when it comes to games I have NEVER seen a P4 even come close to A64 power, but then again this is well known, AMD beats the crap out of Intel when it comes to games.
or wait about 2 months and they wont be so expensive
Actually they will be still expensive for give or take 6-9 months. As illustrated by today’s cards.
As for that motherboard choice demonic, drop it like a rock. If your going AGP you want the MSI Neo2 Platinum. If your going PCI-E, you want any DFI NF4 board.
but i agree, it would be nice to have a soundproof case seeing as mine is so freggin old and makes the sound of a helicopter, or a machine gun :agm:
