'Brobear'





I was an earth-rim walker, a lurker at the threshold of the abyss. - Grendel -

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theonejrs


My refurbished board came in a box with everything included. Except for convenience the CD isn't needed because it all can be downloaded from Asus' website.


baltekmi


When AMD and Intel chips are benched marked it is done with a cipset/CPU neutral testing soft. Some game manufacturers do optimize their games for some video cards but never for AMD or Intel. Intel's floating point operations aren't better than AMD's. The higher scores are usually seen on single core Intel's and they bench higher because of Hyper Threading. The problem here is that Hyper Threading only works on non CPU intensive applications. With application such as games and encoders Hyper Threading is not doing anything. When the CPU is under full load there are no extra CPU cycles for hyper threading and so goes the floating point unit.

If you look at my bench below you will note that here the AMD's have a higher floating point operation almost across the board. Hell the $500 X2 4400 is easily beating the $1000 Intel D840.





brobear

The Intel 955 sells for almost $1100 and in most test on the web the X2 4800 is still holding its own in many benchmarks and still beats it in gaming. Part of its problem is the 1066 Mhz frontside bus. Dual cores really make use of the frontside bus and AMD's 2000 Mhz is going to give it an advantage.

Now if you look at my benchmarks and compare them to the X2 4800, and by how much it is beating it I think that you clearly see that my system will but an Intel 955 system on a leash and walk it around the park like a little doggy looking for a fire hydrant.:)

With some good gear and being overclocked it might match or even beatmy system by a little bit which is specualtion, and I doubt. But if I had an Opteron 185 it wouldn't have chance. if I had an FX60 which sells for $60 less than the 955, then taking it to church on Sunday and having having Billy Graham and the entire parish pray for it would still find it closer to hell than heaven.:)

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'Brobear'





I was an earth-rim walker, a lurker at the threshold of the abyss. - Grendel -

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Sophocles what do you make of this claim. I am not as astute as some of you, but this seems like a extreme claim?

sorry here it is

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yeah but is it really nesserary ,probably not you get to a certian point and its overkill ,like car audio you have systems that can produce 170 db but you cant listen to it that loud so theres no point to do it

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Well yes or we would still me using the 100mgz processors.
Some of you guysmay not know this, but my first computer wes a texas instument(TI) TI99/4a. That's when apple was king of the hill. My next was the Commodore 64. Got online when all it said was LOGIN:

As far as car audio, now here is where my feet is wet. You cannot produce 170 db in ANY car that can be purchased off the lot and then some. Even the tricked out show cars and vans such as Cerwin Vega Pioneer etc. can barely achieave 140 or more. I do agree with 1 thing though you cannot listen to that high (120 or more for very long)! For one thing you eyeballs vibrate so much you cannot see the road.
happy computering!

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