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Intel "Northwood" vs. Athlon XP 2000+

Posted by timothy on from the alright-you-two-cut-that-out dept.

Augustus writes: "LinuxHardware.org has just published their results in the Pentium 4 verses Athlon XP war. In this review, the new Pentium 4 'Northwood' 2.2GHz is pitted against the Athlon XP 2000+. To level the playing field, both platforms use DDR memory which make for some interesting results."

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  1. Re:I have one, and.. by jd · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I take it you're running the XP's on an MP chipset. You do know that you're being very naughty, by not buying AMD's hyper-expensive, ultra-slow MP processors, and having a decent computer to use instead?


    (I asked AMD if such a configuration was possible. I got a LONG e-mail back, which said that it wasn't recommended, documented, approved, etc'ed, to run a mere (read: cheaper) desktop processor with a multi-processor chipset.)

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    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  2. Let's try and grow a brain next time by Luminair · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You missed the point, you uneducated piece of crap.

    If we were comparing system performance, we wouldn't necessarily use DDR for both.

    However, since we're comparing CPU VS CPU (NOT SYSTEM VS SYSTEM), they try and keep all the other specs similar.

    It's to see how the Athlon compares to the P4; not how an Athlon computer compares to a P4 computer.

    Just the fact that this post got modded up so high shows how totally uneducated in these matters the Slashdot crowd is; maybe you should go back to playing with your kernal, instead of ranting about something you have no authority with?

  3. lameness detected by stock · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What a total fuckup do these low-life morons from /. make...
    damn... there's no story posted about the AMD Athlon/Linux CPU bug,
    but instead they post this : "Buy John Romero's Ferrari On EBay".
    Those anal fuckers suck.

    Yeah moderate this up, if ya dare :)