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| Rick Blythin 2002-10-30, 6:24 pm |
| First I just want to thank everyone who replied to my previous post on
upgrading. I'm now debating between either the 2 Ghz Athlon or a 1.6 P4.
Unfortunately the 2+ P4's are still a little to expensive here (Canada) then
I really want to spend right now. The Athlon and P4 1.6 are only a few
dollars different in price. I'll mainly be using it for CAD work 2D and 3D,
and I also use it as a games machine (Metal of Honor and Soldier of fortune
type games). I'm running a k6-2 450 currently, with 448 RAM. It's still a
decent system for CAD, but games is where it's really starting to show it's
age.
I can't see their being a huge difference in performance in CAD work, but
in gaming there might be.
Any thoughts would be great.
Cheers,
Rick
A+, Network+
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| Barry Watzman 2002-10-30, 6:24 pm |
| The 2.4 P4's are selling for $193, at that price I can't see getting a
1.6. I believe that some of the US vendors, although in general they
don't ship internationally, will ship to Canada (the $193 is at
Googlegear, and it's the packaged, full retail shrink wrapped CPU with
heatsink and fan -- other vendors have similar pricing).
If you get the 2.4, be aware that they come in two FSB clock speeds, 400
and 533, get the right one for your configuration.
If you get the 1.6, be aware that they come in two different families,
Willamette and Northwood. You ***DEFINITELY*** want the Northwood,
there is a HUGE difference. You can tell them apart by the size of the
cache, the Northwood has a 512k cache vs. 256k on the willamette.
I think that the differences are very significant for both CAD and
gaming. Both do a lot of "heavy duty" display stuff and calculations,
including 3D rendering and floating point.
Rick Blythin wrote:
> First I just want to thank everyone who replied to my previous post on
> upgrading. I'm now debating between either the 2 Ghz Athlon or a 1.6 P4.
> Unfortunately the 2+ P4's are still a little to expensive here (Canada) then
> I really want to spend right now. The Athlon and P4 1.6 are only a few
> dollars different in price. I'll mainly be using it for CAD work 2D and 3D,
> and I also use it as a games machine (Metal of Honor and Soldier of fortune
> type games). I'm running a k6-2 450 currently, with 448 RAM. It's still a
> decent system for CAD, but games is where it's really starting to show it's
> age.
>
> I can't see their being a huge difference in performance in CAD work, but
> in gaming there might be.
>
> Any thoughts would be great.
>
> Cheers,
> Rick
> A+, Network+
>
>
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"Rick Blythin" <mosguy@gosympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:CRFl9.913$zz2.74915@news20.bellglobal.com...
> First I just want to thank everyone who replied to my previous post on
> upgrading. I'm now debating between either the 2 Ghz Athlon or a 1.6 P4.
> Unfortunately the 2+ P4's are still a little to expensive here (Canada)
then
> I really want to spend right now. The Athlon and P4 1.6 are only a few
> dollars different in price. I'll mainly be using it for CAD work 2D and
3D,
> and I also use it as a games machine (Metal of Honor and Soldier of
fortune
> type games). I'm running a k6-2 450 currently, with 448 RAM. It's still a
> decent system for CAD, but games is where it's really starting to show
it's
> age.
>
> I can't see their being a huge difference in performance in CAD work, but
> in gaming there might be.
>
> Any thoughts would be great.
>
> Cheers,
> Rick
> A+, Network+
It looks to me like there is a substantial price difference between those
chips at www.pricewatch.com , which is where I look to compare prices. I
use an Athlon 1.1 with 128 Mg of RAM right now and the only problems I have
had are with heat. It runs anything that I want to run.
Of course I don't do any CAD at all mostly internet and games like Diablo II
and MechWarrior 4.
AG
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