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I had an interesting thought (a first):
P4's are expensive. I noticed you could buy two 1.2GHz Athlons for the price of one P4 1.4GHz. Or, you could get two 1.0GHz Athlons for one P4 1.3GHz.
P4's shine in apps in which dual cpu systems are also fast (e.g. encoding). A dual Athlon system would beat a single P4 in any application benchmark, even those that don't use dual CPUs (cos the Athlon already wins in most of these).
Problem: no 760MP boards yet. Does anyone know when? Since RAMBUS is more expensive than DDR, the price of a 760MP mobo would prob keep within the price of the P4 system. This may work for a dual P3 as well, but it might be much more expensive.
I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts on this. Maybe we'll see lots of dual systems on the market soon like this. Or maybe I'm a fool
~ I'm not AMD biased, I just think their chips are better. ~
P4's are expensive. I noticed you could buy two 1.2GHz Athlons for the price of one P4 1.4GHz. Or, you could get two 1.0GHz Athlons for one P4 1.3GHz.
P4's shine in apps in which dual cpu systems are also fast (e.g. encoding). A dual Athlon system would beat a single P4 in any application benchmark, even those that don't use dual CPUs (cos the Athlon already wins in most of these).
Problem: no 760MP boards yet. Does anyone know when? Since RAMBUS is more expensive than DDR, the price of a 760MP mobo would prob keep within the price of the P4 system. This may work for a dual P3 as well, but it might be much more expensive.
I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts on this. Maybe we'll see lots of dual systems on the market soon like this. Or maybe I'm a fool
~ I'm not AMD biased, I just think their chips are better. ~