Best chipset for socket 478 ?

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There are tons of benchmarks at many places, one of these is Anand's,
the latest one is
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2668 for high end
dual core stuff, but you'll find earlier ones including Prescott
there. Even without benchmarks I can tell you that your 2.8 in single
thread tasks (most games) will be identical to Pentium D 820, which is
nothing more than 2 Prescott 2.8 cobbled together sharing the bus and
chocking each other for the data. Both will be blown out of the water
by the cheapest A64 s939 - is it 3000 or 3200? don't remember off the
top of my head. Dual cores start showing their superiority only in
multithreaded apps that are still few and far between; or if you like
to work on your PC while scanning for viruses or encoding stuff in the
background.

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I don't think it will be blown out of the water. I went from a P4
[email protected] to AMD64 3500+ and I certainly didn't see any big
difference. One game I benchmarked both systems scored the same.
 
Johannes said:
I build with a Northwood 2.8/800 in July 2004, it will still be my main
computer for years to come because it isn't slow and it's very cool (39C).
Motherboard is a Gigabyte with Intel 875P chipset.
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My current AMD64 3500+ is even cooler - 36c. ;-)
 
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