Pentium or Athlon?

[Martin]

i don't know why anyone would even consider a pentium, unless you are rich and have money to blow!

For the more money you pay, you get a CPU which is easier on your power supply, generates less heat, thus increasing its overclockability (for those into tweaking).

 

[AMD Soldier]

Hi,

What processor do you think is better? Athlon or Pentium? I'm totally behind Athlon because I own one and I haven't had any problems with it yet. I also heard that a 1.4 Athlon can beat a 1.7 Pentium. For some reason that tells me something and Athlon is cheaper as well.

Anyways, who do you preffer?

Athlon. I can always find a better deal with them than going with the Pentium procs.

 

[UK-CD'Z]

From what i know Athlons are faster in 2D tasks such as opening documents, word, spreadsheets etc....where as Pentiums are better in the 3D department such as games , multimedia presentations etc..also like someone said there stable when it comes to them keeping there cool. I think its personal choice ( coke or pepsi ) ...i myself went for the Pentium 4 and im happy with it - just my opinion

 

[GenocidePunk]

Lets see Athlon is used by over 65% of gamers, maybe that tells us something.

 

[Martin]

Lets see Athlon is used by over 65% of gamers, maybe that tells us something.

However, Intel controls more than 80% of the market.

 

[nickm]

Personally, I have always used AMD, ever since the days of my first machine (K6 2-233).Then upgraded to a 500Mhz AMD chip. Looked to upgrade again and I found a Pentium 4 1.6Ghz chip on e-bay for £65. I bought it and got a mainboard to go with it and Ive never had a problem. My opinion is like many others in that it depends what you need it for. Incidently, those P4 chips are still on ebay (ebay.co.uk).Take a look!

 

[Animedog]

I used to be an intel guy simply because they don't make bad chips, but as AMD progressed they too made excellent chips. I think it really is a matter of what you need and how much you have. Honestly you can't go wrong with either chip. Both companies and their chips have pros and cons. I own 6 PC's and 5 are pentium based, which run fine. They other one is Athlon based and runs great. In fact my next computer i am getting will have an Athlong XP 2000+. I have been happy with both processor lines and the reliability of both. So it really comes down to funds and personal liking.

 

[þÄ®âÐÖx]

I've always been an AMD guy, but if the Opteron isn't amazing, then my next computer will be an Intel.. AMD just hasn't been putting out anything worthwhile lately.. just a 66mhz clock increase every once in a while.. even the T-Breds aren't that great...

 

[UK-CD'Z]

Also i think it depends a lot not only on the chip ( processor ) but the overall setup of your machine, things like memory , motherboard etc etc as some types of motherboard may not go well with the processor ..for example a P4 does not run at its full potential with SDram but stick a P4 with RDram and you can really see the difference .

 

[Martin]

for example a P4 does not run at its full potential with SDram but stick a P4 with RDram and you can really see the difference .

The performance difference between SDR SDRAM and RDRAM is less than a hair thick... but since RDRAM is multi-threaded in hardware, the main significant difference is the amount of tasks which can be performed at once.