athlon versus p 4

komart663_ · Post by **komart663_** » Fri Jun 14, 2002 22:45

well i am running reolume on a celeron 400 with a g 450 videocard and i wish to upgrade my computer,athlon looks quite interesting as it cost less than the pentium 4 series but my reseller told me there were several troubles with amd processor ( system instable ,lot of heat ,crashes ,problem for compability ) did you ever heard talk of it ?which processor could be and affordable and powerful ?
thanks

Post by **bart** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 11:49

AMD or Intel? it really does not matter ... go for the most bang for your buck!

ether_ · Post by **ether_** » Tue Jun 25, 2002 05:50

i have an athlon - runs fine under all sorts of conditions it was never meant to...
- does run a little hot - but i've not had a p4 to compare it to, and extra cooling fans are cheap

rlogan_ · Post by **rlogan_** » Wed Jun 26, 2002 19:51

I run resolume on a Athlon TBird 1.2ghz, and I've never had any problems at all. One of my coworkers picked up a 1.4ghz P4, and I ran some benchmarks on both my machine and his, and they were within a couple percent of each other on nearly every test. I bought my Athlon last October, and he bought the P4 a couple weeks ago, and still payed >$100 more then I did.

stalker_ · Post by **stalker_** » Tue Jul 02, 2002 22:40

AMD Athlon XP ROCKS! it works even better than the P4 .