Dad's Upgrade

[Death_blooms]

Originally Posted by Panda Man

I'd trash that stick of memory and throw in a 512MB PC3200 DIMM, they're like what, $20 nowadays? Also, very nice upgrade, but you gotta mod that case!!! Custom blowhole, front panel LEDs, side window, the works!!!

The memory Is 512MB, and yes I would love to get my hands on that case but my dad's not keen :(

Originally Posted by Death_blooms

Here are some pictures of the computer currently:
480W PSU Gold 12cm SATA PFC

Also the PSU is here so I should hopefully build it this weekend.

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by simple_inhibition

an athlon 64 3200 is comparable to a 3.2ghz pentium 4. hence the 3200 speed rating.

That is actually not true. The PR (Performance Rating) on AMD chips are really meant to distinguish performance differences between AMD chips only. While there might appear to be a correlation between the Athlon 64 PR and the speed of similarly performing Pentium 4 chips, the two are not related from a marketing standpoint. An Athlon 64 3200 might perform near what a Pentium 4 3.2GHz chip would, but it is only in certain benchmarks (like gaming), not usually across the board (like video/audio encoding/decoding) where pure clock speed is more advantageous than an efficient architecture.

[Death_blooms]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

That is actually not true. The PR (Performance Rating) on AMD chips are really meant to distinguish performance differences between AMD chips only. While there might appear to be a correlation between the Athlon 64 PR and the speed of similarly performing Pentium 4 chips, the two are not related from a marketing standpoint. An Athlon 64 3200 might perform near what a Pentium 4 3.2GHz chip would, but it is only in certain benchmarks (like gaming), not usually across the board (like video/audio encoding/decoding) where pure clock speed is more advantageous than an efficient architecture.

So how do you no the true clock speed of an AMD processor before you buy it?

[onebxr]

Originally Posted by Death_blooms

So how do you no the true clock speed of an AMD processor before you buy it?

research

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Originally Posted by Death_blooms

So how do you no the true clock speed of an AMD processor before you buy it?

It's given in the specs.

[simple_inhibition]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

That is actually not true. The PR (Performance Rating) on AMD chips are really meant to distinguish performance differences between AMD chips only. While there might appear to be a correlation between the Athlon 64 PR and the speed of similarly performing Pentium 4 chips, the two are not related from a marketing standpoint. An Athlon 64 3200 might perform near what a Pentium 4 3.2GHz chip would, but it is only in certain benchmarks (like gaming), not usually across the board (like video/audio encoding/decoding) where pure clock speed is more advantageous than an efficient architecture.

hence why i said comparable. sorry that i didnt make it clear as to where i was going with explaining things :(

the performance rating was originally created during the athlon xp days. the PR rating was used in correlation to the T-Bird athlon. so an athlon xp 2500 was approximately a 2.5ghz athlon t-bird. it just so happened to match up pretty well with a 2.53ghz P4.

another deciding factor in the PR is the amount of cache. AMD usually adds 200 "mhz" to the PR for every time the cache is doubled. hence why a 2.2ghz A64 w/ 512k of L2 is a 3500 and a 2.2ghz A64 w/ 1mb of L2 is a 3700. and just when you thought that was confusing enough, amd decided that HTT would also play a part in PR ratings. thats why you see a 2.2ghz A64 w/512k L2 but with an HTT of 1600 marketed as a 3400.

utter madness LOL

[Death_blooms]

Originally Posted by simple_inhibition

hence why i said comparable. sorry that i didnt make it clear as to where i was going with explaining things :(

the performance rating was originally created during the athlon xp days. the PR rating was used in correlation to the T-Bird athlon. so an athlon xp 2500 was approximately a 2.5ghz athlon t-bird. it just so happened to match up pretty well with a 2.53ghz P4.

another deciding factor in the PR is the amount of cache. AMD usually adds 200 "mhz" to the PR for every time the cache is doubled. hence why a 2.2ghz A64 w/ 512k of L2 is a 3500 and a 2.2ghz A64 w/ 1mb of L2 is a 3700. and just when you thought that was confusing enough, amd decided that HTT would also play a part in PR ratings. thats why you see a 2.2ghz A64 w/512k L2 but with an HTT of 1600 marketed as a 3400.

utter madness LOL

Im comfused, Oh well I've got this processor on my PC aswell and it works fine. Better than the old P2 anyway

27th April
Upgrading 2moro

its done! I have installed office 2007, windows xp pro and the vista transformation pack. Working good thaks dabs.com

Just thought id share this with you guys.
My dad had some stupid idea that we could build my brother a new PC with the old parts and told me not to throw them out. Well I took up the challenge and here it is check it out in the new case looking sweet.

Well i think the above build is the best i've ever done my dad dosent no about this one yet its going to be a suprise.

[qazwsx]

love the case there, a good ol' tesco bag, nice.....

[Death_blooms]

A high quality case for high quality components