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Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by lkj, May 7, 2003.

  1. lkj

    lkj Geek Trainee

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    I have solved my problem with regards to the thread i posted earlier, i sold my mboard and P4 chip and replaced it with AMD 2000+ and gigabyte K7 Triton board. .............. 7800 marks on 3dmark2001 with absolutly no tweaks, I have just become an amd fan.

    what do you guys think? AMD or Intel?
     
  2. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    Happy to know that you resolved the problem, even if you decided to get rid of it instead of finding a solution :p.

    Personnally I like Amd because I do not buy the latest cpus so it is very much less expansive than Intel. Also, the best intel mainboards are the ones with intel chipsets but they seem to have less features and they are the most expansive boards on the market right now. Sure amd cpus create more heat but it is not a big deal to me.
    The only thing I do not like about amd is their website. Intel litterally owns them in that department, big time !
    But the good thing about amd is that you have a major forum at amdmb.com , whereas intel does not have one.
     
  3. lkj

    lkj Geek Trainee

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    tried everything humanly possible to solve the prob. even did a fresh install with nothing but my grafix card connected, came out with exactly the same scores. Interesting though was that after installing DX9, it did not show up in any of my system profiles, agp fast write would not enable and agp 8x would keep changing to 4x. the chip was a celeron so i dont know if that was the prob. all of the above work perfectly on the amd, the mboard is the exact equivalent of the intel board.
     
  4. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    I think your best bet would've been to just buy a P4, like the 2.4 or something instead of a new mobo/CPU combo. I've been buying AMD for a few years, initially because of cost, but right now, Intel seems to have the price/performance ratio on their side.

    The Celeron is severely castrated, so much it's not even funny. AMD's now discontinued Duron processor basically opened a can of whoop-ass on it's competitor Celeron, and could compete well against the old Pentium III. The current Celeron's are based on the old, original P4 core, the Willamette, which wasn't exactly great in performance, and was on a similar level to the P3 several hundred MHz slower. With the smaller cache, the Celeron is even worse off.

    BTW, I've got a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Ultra I'm gonna be testing here soon...stay tuned for the review :cool:
     
  5. zeus

    zeus out of date

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    I go for the P4.

    Unfortunatly most people dont have the ram to cope with its bandwidth so its not shining as bright as it can.

    Pentium over amd anyday here.
     

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