"sbb78247" wrote in message
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Ed Cregger wrote:
Goober wrote in message
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I've just put together an Athlon XP 3000+ system for a family
member. I was disappointed at the CPU and memory performance
compared to my own Pentium 4
2.6-GHz (400-Mhz FSB) system. I thought that the Athlon XP 3000+
would be at least a little faster.

I ran several benchmarks, but here are my PCMark04 scores just for
the sake of comparison:

P4 2.4 GHz (100-MHz system bus):
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CPU: 3408
Memory: 2553 (1 GB of PC2100 DDR266)
HDD: 1640 (WD 80-GB IDE)


Athlon XP 3000+ (166-MHz system bus):
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CPU: 2825
Memory: 1620 (1 GB PC3200 DDR400)
HDD: 4690 (WD 80-GB SATA)


Both systems have an 80-GB Western Digital hard disk drive, but the
hard disk performance of the Athlon system is impressive, presumably
because of SATA support. (The hard disk in the Pentium 4 system is
connected to a Promise Ultra133 TX2 card.)

The motherboard in the Athlon system is an ABIT VA-20, and both
systems are running Win XP SP2. I've triple-checked the BIOS
settings and everything appears to be set correctly.

Is this performance typical for an Athlon XP 3000+? Is the VA-20
just a crappy motherboard?


Now load both systems with the new Win 64 bit OS. Which is fastest
now? G

I understand your frustration. I have a P4 2.8 MHz system and an
AMD64 3200+ system. The P4 is faster in some areas and the AMD64 is
faster in others. But we both know which will run the new 64-bit OS
and which won't. Look at the bright side of the situation.

Ed Cregger


exactly how is a 64 bit OS going to help when both chips are 32 bit????
The
OP said Athlon XP3000+

ed slaps forehead now DOH!


Yep. Slapped the forehead...

Ed Cregger