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Hi guys,
I'm slightly confused, to be honest i lost track when things all changed from socket A (lol my knowledge really needs updating!
)
Anyway i was running cpu benchmarks on sandra 2003 and i cant help notice that on the cpu arithmatic and multimedia the athlon 64 3000 is slower.
This makes me wonder if the 2600 would be faster for folding(@home)? and also how they would perform in games.
I have read the clock speed is 1.8 Ghz compared with the 2600 xp thoroughbreds 2.1 Ghz. Basically i wondered why AMD lowered the clock speed with the early models of the athlon64. why they didnt keep the same clockspeeds (or better) in addition to the different architecture (64 bit, more cache etc)
i know that obviously the athlon 64 has superior performance for 64bit apps etc but what about general usage for 32bit apps?
and mainly what about for games? is the athlon 64 3000 superior?
i know the questions in this thread are very obvious for most of you guys out there, but i would appreciate having my knowledge updated, and this thread would be an interesting read for other people too.
Thanks for any replies....and its a bank holiday weekend Woohoo!!
I'm slightly confused, to be honest i lost track when things all changed from socket A (lol my knowledge really needs updating!
)Anyway i was running cpu benchmarks on sandra 2003 and i cant help notice that on the cpu arithmatic and multimedia the athlon 64 3000 is slower.
This makes me wonder if the 2600 would be faster for folding(@home)? and also how they would perform in games.
I have read the clock speed is 1.8 Ghz compared with the 2600 xp thoroughbreds 2.1 Ghz. Basically i wondered why AMD lowered the clock speed with the early models of the athlon64. why they didnt keep the same clockspeeds (or better) in addition to the different architecture (64 bit, more cache etc)
i know that obviously the athlon 64 has superior performance for 64bit apps etc but what about general usage for 32bit apps?
and mainly what about for games? is the athlon 64 3000 superior?
i know the questions in this thread are very obvious for most of you guys out there, but i would appreciate having my knowledge updated, and this thread would be an interesting read for other people too.
Thanks for any replies....and its a bank holiday weekend Woohoo!!