AHHH, damn computer!!

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Originally posted by drdingo21
p4s suck because they hardly run at their rated speeds. for example my 1.2 tbird is faster than a p4 1.6 gig. My other cpu xp1600 is running at 1900 mhz and its stomping p4 2gig. If youd like i could throw up some benchamarks to further illustrate. The only reason pentium 4s are so popular is because they advertise and every big company picked them as their main cpus. You can buy a Xp2100, motherboard, a 32x cdrw, case and a stick of 256 mb pc133 ram for under the price of what you can get a p4 processer itself. And the amd machine will be every bit as fast as the pentium.

One of the reasons your xp1600 is stomping the P4 is due to the increased FSB. I'm running a 1600+ on one of my rigs @ ~1830, stock voltages, on air @ 10.5 x 173FSB. It beats the crap out of my P4 2.0. This is also due to having fastest RAM timings, better components, etc. Overall, I agree that AMD is the way to go for the money.