TTZX Wrote back to my email this.....
I run a Barton XP ready 2800 + CPU and my Microsoft Word opens so fast Microsoft has tried to sue me for whiplash!!
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WOW, opening Microsoft Word is surely the end all benchmark for a processor. You should see how fast my 2.4C opens Windows MediaPlayer 9, if you blink you'll miss it.
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My advise to you is get a A7V8X-X Asus Mother board for AMD CPU's and plug in a Barton 2800+ cpu.
It would benchmark way faster then an Intel 2.8 in fact it would make it look silly and kinda made for kids like Barney the Dinosaur.
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This statement alone takes away your credibility. I don't know what fantasy benchmarks you are talking about, but I suggest you take a look at the following link, it will fresh your memory as to which CPU makes which look like a toy.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030521/index.html
A P4 2.8C easily tears apart a 2800+ both in GAMING and other areas. Even the P4 2.4C beats the 2800+ in GAMING.
The P4 2.6C is $175 while the 2800+ is $136 at newegg.com , $39 difference is more than justified considering the amount of overall performance increase you get. The 2.6 is more comparable to the 3000+/3200+ CPUs.
My replies to TTZX are below!!
The fact is I was not talking about over clocking as TAX is describing. I was talking about off the shelf CPU's and providing and honest answer to the originator of the post.
The Barton AMD 2800 + is superior to the Intel 2.8 OUT of the BOX in so many ways. Over clocking an Intel chip is the only way to make it function faster then the AMD Barton 2800 +
I have worked for so long as a computer tech that seeing a computer system able to open up Microsoft Word in less then 30 seconds is a benchmark!!
If this guy wants to start comparing Mad Onion Benchmarks then he's on. I suspect that with my properly configured Barton 2800 + running in my current set-up that I would still score higher then his over clocked 2.8 Intel chip.
I would not push him to run any Mad Onion Benchmarks to prove that because as we all know his CPU is now very unstable and will not last to Christmas but we could all CHIP in and by him a real CPU perhaps he could purchase a real Motherboard that would support a AMD processor.
The amount of problems in the shop we have with the Intel chips not running software applications is past the limits of our patience. Give a AMD chip a job and it does it does not have questions it simply performs.
Quick example of this was a College teacher that in his trades class would run diagnostic tools for automotive equipment then he would in real time upload the information to his computer.
His computer would stall on him and he could not run slide shows depicting oscilloscope pictures.
We installed more physical RAM we cleaned his computer up and tweaked it the whole deal nothing we could do get that Intel CPU to perform.
We placed his hard drive in a new AMD board and CPU removed all the drivers for the old system board and CPU and his operating system pushed all his hardware software perfectly.
After showing Ken how his system ran all his applications he advised us to build him a new AMD system with a new 80 Gig hard drive and copy all the relative information from his old drive into his new computer.
His old Intel system is now in his basement as a home internet surf machine for his wife and kids. I suppose an Intel chip can handle MSN Messenger service.
What TTZX fails to realize is he thinks he is bad ass having to over clock his Intel CPU so it can compete with AMD CPU's that run faster out of the box. It is also very apparent that TTZX is not a gamer if he would like to try to game online he should first purchase some AMD/ASUS equipment so he does not get his Anal self handed to him online.
As to further my question about the system resources getting tapped when online in game you can bet your last pay check that there is more going on then just 10 guys throwing bullets at each other.
Run software that enables you to see IP's running through your system I guarantee you will see IP number running pass through packets through your system that have nothing to do with the game server IP or your home network IP addresses. Oh try to ban those IP number that show up as pass through packets it wont do you any good you cannot block them.