The fact is the AMD equivalents (Althon 64's) were always far superior
to the Pentium 4. Far better performance at a lower clock speed, less
power use and less heat. And to top it all they were cheaper. Indeed
the only reason the Pentium 4's did so well was down to Intels market
position and heavy advertising scheme.
Intel came back into my favour when they released the Pentium M's
though. Lower clock speed, less heat and plenty of L2 Cache (2mb on
the second generation) - reversed the trend of the P4 (high front side
bus speed and stingy L2 cache). AMD were still the kings of the
Desktop chips though as far as I was concerned.
The fact is the AMD equivalents (Althon 64's) were always far superior
to the Pentium 4. Far better performance at a lower clock speed, less
power use and less heat. And to top it all they were cheaper. Indeed
the only reason the Pentium 4's did so well was down to Intels market
position and heavy advertising scheme.
Intel came back into my favour when they released the Pentium M's
though. Lower clock speed, less heat and plenty of L2 Cache (2mb on
the second generation) - reversed the trend of the P4 (high front side
bus speed and stingy L2 cache). AMD were still the kings of the
Desktop chips though as far as I was concerned.
I waas always an AMD fanboy as well. But having recently built a few Intel
C2D boxes for people, I will definitely be changing over to Intel (E6600 or
6700) when I upgrade my own PC.
BTW, our 2nd PC here has a 3gig Intel Prescott CPU - never gets higher than
45c and never any noise from the HSF, as we invested in a decent one.
I waas always an AMD fanboy as well. But having recently built a few Intel
C2D boxes for people, I will definitely be changing over to Intel (E6600 or
6700) when I upgrade my own PC.
BTW, our 2nd PC here has a 3gig Intel Prescott CPU - never gets higher than
45c and never any noise from the HSF, as we invested in a decent one.
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