Will the switch be worth it? AMD > Intel

I'm currently running an xpm2500 @ 2400mhz with BH5 ram on a DFI infinity. It's watercooled but to get this speed I'm having to run the Vcore at max which is resulting in me needing to run fans pretty fast, hence it's producing quite a lot of noise.

I am comsidering getting a P4 2.4c (hopefully being able to clock it up to around 3ghz)

How will the two systems compaire speed wise, also how well do P4s respond to voltage?

Basically I want to know if I'm going to be able to get similar performance with less noise.

Any recommendations on decent spec'd and clocking P4 mobos would be great although that may be better in another thread.

Thanks in advance

jsj

 

No opinions - that's not like BiT

 

personally i dont know anything about intel, but to my belive i would say a xpm @ 2.5ghz would be about the same as a p4 3ghz, i could be wrong , but i would say stay with amd, and get another chip and try ur luck with it

 

your answer is slightly answered in the super-pi table (wow it actually came in handy for comparisons!). your 36secs is matched by mister tad's 2.4c at 3.7ghz with ~300fsb. thats with air so you may go further with water, just depends on your chip. and you need some memory that can keep up. you've currently got roughly a 600mhz increase over stock 2500 speeds, and say the 2500 and 2.4 perform roughly the same at stock and taking into account how much more you get per clock with an athlonxp, a 600mhz increase on the p4 just won't keep up.

how fast can you go with your xpm whilst keeping reasonable noise levels?
And do you require such a fast pc or do you just because you can?
Why not just turn down the fans and turn down the clock, for just gaming and surfing i don't notice the difference between my everyday 2ghz @ 1.5v and benching at 2.7ghz.

 

I should have really noticed that myself

You're right - To be honest I'm probably just goning to back this one off a bit as you say and get an air cooled o/c'd P4 system as well to fold with.

I guess you're right and theres an element of 'because i can' but I'm also on a bit of a Folding@home work unit frenzy (well with what I've got) at the moment so every clock cycle counts

What you says makes a lot of sense! I certainly won't be replacing one system with the other - just adding to the brood

 

I have both a 2.4C and (several) athlon XP-M's... I run my daily rig at 2200MHz, and it's fast enough for anything that I currently throw at it... including far cry at reasonable levels of details. You'll need at least 3.3GHz 1:1 to keep up with a 2300MHz Athlon to give an idea - the one advantage is HyperThreading, I like that feature

 

Thanks BigZ - What does HyperThreading acutally improve / 'get you' in real terms. Please excuse my ignorance

Edit: While we're here can you recommend a decent O/C'ing P4 mobo that'll make the most of 800fsb without totally breaking the bank?