Piii / P4 / Amd

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Teacher, no offense taken.

I work for Bill's company and thus am a little too sensitive about comments regarding the OS. Sorry if I came off rude.
 
I was going to go with AMD, but in researching this entire mess, it was driving me insane. This is the kinda stuff I would see...
"Via had there issues fixed with the KT266a"..."Via still has issues up to the KT333" "The SIS745 is good"..."No the SIS745 will not work good with XYZ card"....

On and on and on. What I learned from all this is, that you can by an AMD and Via chipset or SIS or AMD 76x and it could work well for you. Hopefully it does. Or it could work ok and you would be spending a lot of time tweaking and hunting message boards for help, or you will be completely screwed and will buy and return and buy and return components until you get it right. The problem is not with AMD, it is with the MoBo chipsets. I have not read any consistent, solid performance. I want to record music. I don't want to worry about tweaking until the cows come home. I wanted to go with AMD, I really did. But in the end, I chose to go the Intel route. I was looking at a AMD 2000 XP, but decided on a P4 1.8 Northwood. It was only like $70 more.

On another forum, one of the members came across a solid Intel setup for DAW that other members have also used, and from what I read, it has worked flawlessly for most of those people.

Is Intel guaranteed to work 100% of the time...No, but it is like a 98% thing, where as AMD seems 50/50.
 
brzilian said:


Intel also has the new P4's coming out as well...
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No question about that...

Interesting thing about new Athlon, though, that its has a new design, which puts speeds over 3000 within a close reach...

I wonder, how many RenVerbs or Ozones will I be able to open using something like a mobo with dual Athlon 3200+ processors, FSB532 and 2 gigs of PC7200 DDR memory? ;)
 
webstop said:


No question about that...

Interesting thing about new Athlon, though, that its has a new design, which puts speeds over 3000 within a close reach...

I wonder, how many RenVerbs or Ozones will I be able to open using something like a mobo with dual Athlon 3200+ processors, FSB532 and 2 gigs of PC7200 DDR memory? ;)
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*YAWN*

For the most part, these speed differences in processors are minimal. Unless there is a 50% gain in overall performance, I don't really care. That is why only now did I switch from a P2-400 to a P4-2.26GHz.

I also like the fact that my new P4 is MUCH quieter than my older P2 as well as a couple friends' Athlon systems. Must be the fact that the Pentium has a better desgin as far as power consumption/heat generation is concerned...

I have used Intel CPU/mobo's for the last 5 years or so and never had any compatability problems most AMD users describe.
 
brzilian said:
I also like the fact that my new P4 is MUCH quieter than my older P2 as well as a couple friends' Athlon systems. Must be the fact that the Pentium has a better desgin as far as power consumption/heat generation is concerned...
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I used to think that noise was coming from fans, not from processors. Just tell your friends not to use cheap Volcano coolers. My AMD system is not any louder than my Intel system. You would probably not immediately notice that it is on... Yes, Athlons are sensible to stable power and efficient cooling, but there are enough good PSUs and coolers around, so no need to worry.

I have used Intel CPU/mobo's for the last 5 years or so and never had any compatability problems most AMD users describe.
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AMDs have no compatibility problems. Motherboard chipset is a different story. All those with issues are widely known, so simply avoid them. I never had any compatibility issues with my AMD dedicated music system, just like I never had any with Intel MS/Internet/Gaming system.

If you are happy with your Intel, good for you.
My next rig will be AMD based - little more attention to details and I will have good performance for less money.
 
Speaking of dual processors, is there any audio software out there that can even use the 2nd cpu? I read about people getting dual processors for audio work and it seems useless unless you have 3D Studio MAX or some other graphics program that is written for 2 processors.
 
I think Sonar will do it. Or maybe I'm thinking of Samplitude.
 
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