Athlon64 & Pentium4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition reviews

[trailergod]

i'm an AMD user and this new chip from AMD is really promising :
i provided some linked graphs for video and audio encoding

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid...computer_chips



reviews for AMD 64s and comparisons with the P4 Extreme Edition

AthlonXP's Review
PCstat's Review
Gamers Depot Review
Legit Reviews' Review
Hardtechs4U's Review
Tom's Hardware Review
OCAU Review
Hothardware's Review
LostCircuit's Review
The Tech Reports Review
Sudhian Media's Review
Ace's Hardware Review
Extreme Tech's Review
Digit Life's Review
Hexus's Review
AMDMB's Athlon 64 Review
AMDMB's Athlon 64 FX-51 Review
Anandtech's Review
AMDZone Review
Sudhian Media's Review
UK-Gamers' Review
HardOCP's Review
Firingsquad's Preview

interresting review is from Toms hardware, lots of benchmarks related to video and audio encoding
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/2003...lon_64-35.html

[blugh]

seems kinda weak against the P4s.

[trailergod]

but remember the AMDs are only clocked at 2GHz, versus the 3.2Ghz of Intel, and also a new OS is needed WinXP 64 bit


copy link to address bar !!!
http://www.ixbt.com/cpu/athlon64fx/win64_desktop.png

[corfy]

Unfortunately, for now at least, I have a similar problem with these 64-bit chips that I had with the Mac G5... very little software available right now supports the 64-bit interface and will still work at 32-bit levels. Theoretical number crunching doesn't mean much until you can get some real-world tests. The same thing happened when the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit occurred. It took a while for the software to catch up.

That being said, I am really excited about the possibilities this could open up in a year or so.

[Guiboche]

And maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think video encoding is a very good for benchmarking.

Considering this. My old 400MHz AMD-K6-2 with 3D Now, decodes MPEG2 and Playbacksback DVDs 100% perfect (because of the ATI card). PowerDVD on even most 2GHz systems skips. Now is my 4-year-old 400MHz AMD faster then most of the 2GHz systems on the market? Hell on, but an MPEG2 decoding benchmark would tell you it is :big grin: