<font color=red>At any rate, this thread wasn't really about P4 vs. Athlon, but about how to get your Pentium 4 system to perform better by adding some new drivers.</font color=red>
Excuse me then if this was the case then why did you add the following to your opening post?
<font color=red> Overall the Pentium 4 now beats the Athlon squarely in this benchmark</font color=red>
If you do not want to make it a p4 vs athlon subject then don't make statements like this in the context!
Secondly, real world applications are where we measure superiority not in any synthetic benchmarks, bar none.
Third cas2 DDR and pc-800 rdram are not simularly priced any more, I have already shown you this, would you like to see a link in which the new pc2400 ddr was tested? Stable all the way up to 160 FSB ( 320 ddr) at Cas 2. And when comparing a 256 meg stick of Rdram to a 256 meg stick of DDR the difference is more than 60 bucks. That my friend is a savings of over 30 percent, hardly what I would call neglidgable.
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I'd call overclocking a processor about on par with installing beta drivers as far as stability is concerned. </font color=red>
Ok I can give you that, but should I show you where in numerous post you advised against overclocking a processor? something about running out of Spec and the like. Now you are advising people to use beta drivers, which you liken to overclocking, which you advise against?
You are a very knowedgable man Rayston. I give you that. However you play both sides of the fence, which ever suits your argument of the moment to make your point. Most of the time you only tell half the truth and leave out the rest of the story.
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Ncogneto on 05/12/01 07:01 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
Excuse me then if this was the case then why did you add the following to your opening post?
<font color=red> Overall the Pentium 4 now beats the Athlon squarely in this benchmark</font color=red>
If you do not want to make it a p4 vs athlon subject then don't make statements like this in the context!
Secondly, real world applications are where we measure superiority not in any synthetic benchmarks, bar none.
Third cas2 DDR and pc-800 rdram are not simularly priced any more, I have already shown you this, would you like to see a link in which the new pc2400 ddr was tested? Stable all the way up to 160 FSB ( 320 ddr) at Cas 2. And when comparing a 256 meg stick of Rdram to a 256 meg stick of DDR the difference is more than 60 bucks. That my friend is a savings of over 30 percent, hardly what I would call neglidgable.
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I'd call overclocking a processor about on par with installing beta drivers as far as stability is concerned. </font color=red>
Ok I can give you that, but should I show you where in numerous post you advised against overclocking a processor? something about running out of Spec and the like. Now you are advising people to use beta drivers, which you liken to overclocking, which you advise against?
You are a very knowedgable man Rayston. I give you that. However you play both sides of the fence, which ever suits your argument of the moment to make your point. Most of the time you only tell half the truth and leave out the rest of the story.
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Ncogneto on 05/12/01 07:01 PM.</EM></FONT></P>