Athlon or P3 which one

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Alan

Hi,
I have 2 PC's, one is a P3 866Mhz and the other is an 850Mz Athlon.

I have always used the Athlon for my own PC and the kids have used the
P3.

My question is, I am now using a program which uses a bit of
processing power for calculations and am finding the Athlon a bit
slow. Would the P3 be much faster than the Athlon which makes we
wonder if it's worth swapping everything over between rooms.

Thanks

Alan
 
Hi,
I have 2 PC's, one is a P3 866Mhz and the other is an 850Mz Athlon.

I have always used the Athlon for my own PC and the kids have used the
P3.

My question is, I am now using a program which uses a bit of
processing power for calculations and am finding the Athlon a bit
slow. Would the P3 be much faster than the Athlon which makes we
wonder if it's worth swapping everything over between rooms.

Thanks

Alan
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No.

You want more performance? Upgrade.
 
Alan said:
Hi,
I have 2 PC's, one is a P3 866Mhz and the other is an 850Mz Athlon.

I have always used the Athlon for my own PC and the kids have used the
P3.

My question is, I am now using a program which uses a bit of
processing power for calculations and am finding the Athlon a bit
slow. Would the P3 be much faster than the Athlon which makes we
wonder if it's worth swapping everything over between rooms.

Thanks

Alan
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There might be a slight difference, but nothing you are going to notice if it's
already going too slow.

I'd suggest you upgrade to an Athlon XP, as fast as you can afford.
 
Hi,
I have 2 PC's, one is a P3 866Mhz and the other is an 850Mz Athlon.

I have always used the Athlon for my own PC and the kids have used the
P3.

My question is, I am now using a program which uses a bit of
processing power for calculations and am finding the Athlon a bit
slow. Would the P3 be much faster than the Athlon which makes we
wonder if it's worth swapping everything over between rooms.

Thanks

Alan
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There should be virtually no difference between the two. If you want a
significantly faster machine then get an Athlon64 (forget about a new XP
it's obsolete, the A64 runs rings around the XP and the P4).
 
There should be virtually no difference between the two. If you want a
significantly faster machine then get an Athlon64 (forget about a new XP
it's obsolete, the A64 runs rings around the XP and the P4).
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P'shaw, it might be faster, but it's also more expensive. He could get a
2800 for ~100 bucks and have 4 times the performace of his current
setup.
 
P'shaw, it might be faster, but it's also more expensive. He could get a
2800 for ~100 bucks and have 4 times the performace of his current
setup.
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The Athlon 64 3200+ is only $183, $50 more than an Athlon XP 3200 so why
get an obsolete processor?. I have an Athlon 64 3400+ notebook, I've been
benchmarking it against my 2.66GHz Xeon server. For most things it's
nearly twice as fast as my Xeon (essentially it's a 5.2GHz Xeon). There
are other advantages to the Athlon 64, Cool & Quiet really works for one.
 
General Schvantzkoph said:
There should be virtually no difference between the two. If you want a
significantly faster machine then get an Athlon64 (forget about a new XP
it's obsolete, the A64 runs rings around the XP and the P4).
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How can you make this judgement when you don't even know what the OPs task
is?
 
Alan said:
Hi,
I have 2 PC's, one is a P3 866Mhz and the other is an 850Mz Athlon.

I have always used the Athlon for my own PC and the kids have used the
P3.

My question is, I am now using a program which uses a bit of
processing power for calculations and am finding the Athlon a bit
slow. Would the P3 be much faster than the Athlon which makes we
wonder if it's worth swapping everything over between rooms.
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Bench' 'em with a wee exe file called CPU Mark. Then decide.
 
" Would the P3 be much faster than the Athlon which makes we wonder if it's
worth swapping everything over between rooms. "


You should list the two systems you have in detail, and also advise on what
the program you are trying to use is. Depending on the FSB of your Athlon
motherboard, it might be easy to significantly upgrade the CPU (and RAM if
necessary). Any complete overhaul would probably need a new motherboard,
CPU, RAM and PSU at the very least, and might be a little expensive and
unneccessary.
 
I would guess they are about the same. With the PIII it could have
different cache sizes and run a varying FSB speeds depending on the
motherboard and the exact model of PIII. You might be better off just
upgrading one of the computers. Just try it on both PC's and see what
the difference is.

Check the speed of the hard drive to insure you are using at least a
ATA100 7200rpm hard drive and you have a 80 wire data cable and the
DMA is working.
 
Charles escribió:
I would guess they are about the same. With the PIII it could have
different cache sizes and run a varying FSB speeds depending on the
motherboard and the exact model of PIII. You might be better off just
upgrading one of the computers. Just try it on both PC's and see what
the difference is.

Check the speed of the hard drive to insure you are using at least a
ATA100 7200rpm hard drive and you have a 80 wire data cable and the
DMA is working.
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athlon es better, more cache l2 memory best perfomance
sure get the athlon
 
Charles said:
I would guess they are about the same. With the PIII it could have
different cache sizes and run a varying FSB speeds depending on the
motherboard and the exact model of PIII.
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Not really. All coppermine P3's in that range (in all ranges?) had 256k L2
cache running at CPU speed. With a CPU speed of 866Mhz (in OP) it has to be
running on a 133Mhz FSB don't you think?
 
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