Intel vs Pentium 4 processors... need to make a choice.?

Question

A year and a half ago I bought an XPS 9100 with all the extras. It has the p4 3.4 HT Extreme Edition, 2GBram @400MHz and a 256 MG 9800 ATI Radeon video card. I do a lot of video editing and I am happy with the system however a week ago it fell about 20 feet. I am concidering getting it fixed but really want a new system. I am looking at the new XPS M2010 and they only offer the Intel.

Intel® Core® T2600 Duo proc (2.16GHz/667MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)

Intel® Core® T2500 Duo Proc (2GHz/667MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)

Intel® Core® T2700 Processor (2.33GHz/667MHz/1 X 2MB L2 Cache)

How will this compare to the Extrem Edition I had with the same video card and 4GB of ram @ 667MHz? And how important is it that you use memory that runs at the same clock speed as the front side bus?

Please geve me answers in plain english because I am no tech guru. I just know that the p4 3.4 HT EE sounds faster than the intel 2.??

Answer 1

You shouldn't notice that much difference in speed. But the duo cores will run a lot cooler than that oven you have now. Just make sure to get you get a 7200 rpm hard drive. That will help with those large video files.

Answer 2

First of All, Intel makes all of these processors. The P4, and the Duo's. The Intel Core T2700 Processor would likely be the best, for the reason "1 X 2MB L2 Cache" it is the closet to the P4. And if in doubt, stick with a P4, I have a Intel Celeron, it's just as good as any other, you want to stick with the amount of RAM you have, that is good RAM for the system, and the T2700 should make the system fly with that amount of ram. Good Luck

Answer 3

in case you may have sufficient money it pick both.4Ghz P-4 cpu. The Celeron isn't as functional and specifically a fee saving degree. Like getting a V8 on your new automobile particularly of a v6 or I4. The Celeron will run, do note processing and digital mail in spite of the undeniable fact that the P-4 2.4Ghz will do it extra effective ans swifter. you would possibly want to also evaluate the max memory your laptop will take and deploy it. also including an person-friendly video card can % up a equipment because the cpu is not any longer tasked with processing a number of the images artwork. certain, they continually value funds...yet you get what you pay for,My very last improve value over $1700 and that become purely motherboard, cpu, and memory. My next will be on the breaking point of that for purely new video card and water cooling for it..

Answer 4

The p4 3.4 HT Extreme Edition is Intel

Answer 5

Intel makes pentium 4s. They're pushing the duo cores for laptops. Get the T2700 . You'll be very happy.

Answer 6

the new dual core processors, even though they have a "slower" clock speed, are faster.

The faster memory you have the better, also. but don't get too caught uup in numbers, there. AMD allows for 1600 and 2000 FSB speeds and there is no memory that runs that fast.

Ask yourself if it is really worth it to spend $2k for 5 minutes faster editing on a 2 hr movie?

Answer 7

Wow, Running GIMP (made all the movies, rendering, animations, for all movies since "Titanic- 1997") on a Linux (50X faster rendering, frame rates, PCGamer, Fall 04) would really shine on a duo!!!

Answer 8

intel makes the pentium 4. ill make this real simple just get the one that has the greater processing speedif one says intel 4.0 and the other says pentium 4 3.8 get the intel 4.0. there is a lot of stuff that influences speed but you said to keep it in plain inglish so there you go

Answer 9

Video editting ??
get a mac !
Seriously, look into the specs and go to an apple store to try them.