Hello Everyone, I know to take advantage of hyperthreading on the Intel P4 processors, you need to have balcned memory banks, 256 and 256 ot 512 and 512. Is this also true on the other Intel Pentium M processors or the AMD 32 or 64 processors? Do they even have the technology on these chips? What ends up being better? Anthony
AMD doesn't have Hyperthreading, because it's a technology invented by Intel. Intel and AMD both have their pros, but I believe that right now, AMD is a better overall choice, whether you go for the faster S939 Athlon64 or the cheaper 32-bit Sempron.
Having the same amount of memory has nothing to do with HyperThreading. As already mentioned, only Intel Pentium 4/Pentium D's have HyperThreading. As far as having memory sticks of the same size, that only applies for dual-channel memory operation. This is across the board for any AMD or Intel-based solution. Depending on what you're looking at for the computer's use will determine what you want to buy for the system.
Thanks Everyone for your responses. I have anyother question for Harrack52. You said AMD is probably a better bet than Intel at this point. Is this for the $ or over all? Also, do I give anything up running an 64 bit processor with a 32 bit operating system with 32 bit software? The real taxing use that I will have with this is for video rendering. Anthony
you cannot go wrong with an amd 64 bit processor right now. intel really need to get their act together, as amd is quite simply leading the market in terms of performance and price. You wont lose anything by running a 64 bit processor with 32 bit OS/software as amd kindly added support for 32bit applications. they run perfectly. the only problems you may have is running 32 bit apps on a 64bit OS, but til microsoft iron out all the bugs in X64, and the companies get patches and drivers out of BETA, you dont need to worry about it. amd 64, all the way.
Traditionally, the Pentium CPUs have always been stronger (by a modest amount) in video rendering/encoding. Although you can buy 64bit P4s now they'll lose out on gaming performance and overall use. Not to mention AMD has cheaper 64bit CPUs and an integrated memory controller.
