the 64 is the speed king if you have the loot

and the p4EE is $1000 and doeant perform on par with the 64

 

where are you getting this info? the benchmarks speak for themselves IMO

 

my only CPU is a p4C 2.4

so i aint no fanboy.....benchmarks from anandtech and pretty much anywhere but THG

 

Anybody hear about how Half Life 2 suppovely will only run at around 30 fps on a 5900 Ultra and will not run in DX9 mode with a 5600 and 5200 Ultra's? Something about Valve using 24bit color while the Nvidea cards will only support 16 or 32. I guess valve said there visually isn't a difference between 24 and 32. They've got another 5 months to worry about it though.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1863

 

eh.. whatever... i'm more than willing to bet the benchmarks for the P4's that they ran against the 64 on anandtech didn't have hyperthreading enabled. i can't say for sure, but i do know that hyperthreading does give the P4 about a 30% increase in overall performance. the one thing i never have liked about anandtech is that they don't post a thorough setup of the boxes being tested.

the big turnoff about the 64 is the talk that AMD is gonna be going to a totally different pin layout in early 2004. that means those that jump on the bandwagon early are probably gonna get forked when it comes to upgradability.

 

its not like im sellin my 2.4C @ 3.0 anytime soon....i'm waiting for intel's next few procs, prescott and p5 (if not teh same)

 

fawk them both. dual cpus or nothing! (i don't mean amd either )

 

uhhh...the 64's arent that expensive, unless ur talkin bout the fx one (768 bux) and the nvidia fx 5900 is made for direct x 9 which hl2 runs on so...the ati radeons arent made for directx9, i think. also, the 64's are only clocked at 2.2 ghz, those pentium 4 and 5 are not clocked that low i believe.

 

geez, i geek > u geek