XP 3200+ vs A64 2800+

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Amiman

I've been offered an Athlon XP 3200+ plus A7N8X-Deluxe
motherboard combo for about $195. First, is this a good
price ? Secondly, how would this combo stack up against
an A64 2800+ on a K8V mobo, running existing games and
other apps, all other things being equal ?

Thanks in advance for any input.
 
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Oddzilla

that is a very good price on that combo, and that mobo is absolutely
spectacular, as long as it's Revision 2 or higher (i've used it in
three machines now).

as for the performance comparison, i don't feel confident enough with
64bit cpus to accurately answer.
 
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kony

I've been offered an Athlon XP 3200+ plus A7N8X-Deluxe
motherboard combo for about $195. First, is this a good
price ? Secondly, how would this combo stack up against
an A64 2800+ on a K8V mobo, running existing games and
other apps, all other things being equal ?

Thanks in advance for any input.

The price is good, but even better would be that board (or
the Dlx-E (gigabit network adapter) version with an
overclocked Barton XP2500 (regular or mobile barton even
better). It might even be cheaper that $195 if you kept an
eye out for deals.

The A64 2800 is slightly faster at some (memory-intensive)
uses and a little slower at some (less memory-intensive)
uses, overall they're close in performance. Since the A64
supports 64 bit and the newer motherboard is a better
upgrade path, for same price I'd get the A64.
 
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kony

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Chris Bunney

Hi All,

On the subject of AMD64 processors - I have my eye on a laptop with an AMD64
processor, however the specs say that it runs with a 333MHz FSB. Seems slow
to me - would that be a bottleneck in the system or is it normal?

cheers,

Chris.
 
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kony

Hi All,

On the subject of AMD64 processors - I have my eye on a laptop with an AMD64
processor, however the specs say that it runs with a 333MHz FSB. Seems slow
to me - would that be a bottleneck in the system or is it normal?

cheers,

Chris.

Notebooks often have lower FSB, it's not all that
significant. Yes it would be a little lower performance
than a higher FSB but that doesn't make it a bad choice.

Notebooks have other significant bottlenecks already, the
video and hard drive in particular. I doubt you're buying
the notebook to encode video or similar, so for the most
part the difference may not matter.
 

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