Buy new Computer or let my old one?

Question

Hy Friends ^^
This is my 2nd question :O
My Computer is a AMD Ahtlon XP 2000+ 1.66GHz 512Ram...
ok, maybe this question sounds funny, and i dont want to stay behind that, but: A Friend of me have a Intel Pention 4 2.6GHz 512 RAM (andandand) but i think this one is worse then mine. The computer of him is slow, and dont have enough power to run better games. My computer on the other hand is not so strong, but can play all new games.(?) Like Call of Duty 2 and dont lag or something. Is a intel Chip worse than a AMD?
Ok, i know this question sounds silly and that english isnt the best, but give my best to show you my problem o.o
(PS: ok, the graphic card also must be the same...)

hope you understand/canhelp me ;]
Johnny

Answer 1

hi
i have an AMD Athlon MP 2600 (effectively 2GHz) and it easily beats a P4-3GHz; i know, because @ work i had a P4-3GHz and had a CPU sharing prog running on both and it rated my home PC >195 when the P4 3GHz stayed < 180
>:)
this, admittedly, may have been influenced by the fact that i have TWO Athlon MPs running in my box :-"
but even so, on performance test sites (e.g. http://www.pcpitstop.com/ ) usually rate(d) it equal to a P4-3 and don't take into consideration the 2nd CPU;

if, as you say, you feel happy about your gaming experience, just keep your PC and save some more, for a year or two, to get an even better one ;)

Answer 2

If it works fine - keep it. The poorer perfromance can be due to a lot of reasons having nothing to do with the chip. If there is a lot of garbage running in the background (adware, spyware, etc) then performance will suffer. The graphic card also has a major affect on game playing. AMD has always been a bit better at game playing than Intel but that too is not an absolute - it also depends on other things like the FSB speed, etc.

Answer 3

Okay being a computer tech and a gamer I think I understand waht you are asking and saying. Two different things, yes your computer is getting old by todays standards. AMD and Intel both have chips that have dual cores, two processors on one chip. But you are saying your machine should be slower than your friends and proforms better. It is basically due to AMD's technology, for every time the Intel sends a signal to the processor the AMD probably is sending 2, it has double clock cycle versus his. AMD is also kind of designed for gaming and used by allot of gamers. There are a lot of faster machines out there now a days, yours is just getting older.

Answer 4

Hey my friend.I have a good news for you that is the intel company have been created new performance pc with intel pentium D (dual-core) with have two proccesor and much more better than other.

information of pentium D :

Pentium D

Pentium D logo as of 2006.
Original Pentium D brand logoPentium D is a series of microprocessors introduced by Intel at the Spring 2005 Intel Developer Forum. A Pentium D package contains two Pentium 4 Prescott dice (unlike other multicore processors and contrary to popular belief that both cores are on a single die).

The Pentium D was the first announced multicore CPU (along with its more expensive twin, the Pentium Extreme Edition) from any manufacturer intended for desktop computers. Intel underscored the significance of this introduction by predicting that by the end of 2006, over 70% of its shipping desktop CPUs would be multicore. Analysts have speculated that the clock rate race between Intel and AMD is largely over, with no more exponential gains in clock rate looking likely. Instead, as long as Moore's Law holds up, it is expected that the increasing numbers of transistors that chip-makers can incorporate into their CPUs will be used to increase CPU throughput in other ways, such as by adding cores, as the Pentium D does.

With the announcement of the Intel Core brand for their future processors, it appears that Pentium D will be the final processor to carry the Pentium brand name that has been at the forefront of Intel's products since 1993.

Smithfield
Intel released the first Pentium D products (codenamed "Smithfield") on May 26 2005, with clock speeds of 2.8, 3.0, and 3.2 GHz. The chips carried model numbers of 820, 830 and 840 respectively. An 805, clocked at 2.66 GHz with a 533 MT/s bus, appeared in early 2006.

Smithfield is made on a 90nm process with 1MiB of L2 cache per core. The Smithfield Pentium D does not support Hyper-Threading, at least initially, although similar Extreme Edition counterparts do. Smithfield does not support VT, Intel's virtualization feature formerly called Vanderpool.

The Pentium D processor supports Intel's EM64T (licenced from AMD) technology, the XD Bit and like most current Pentium 4s, uses the LGA775 form factor on an 800 MT/s bus. The only motherboards guaranteed to work with the Pentium D (and Extreme Edition) are those based on the 945, 955 and 975 series of chipsets, as well as the nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition. The Pentium D 820 won't work with the nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition due to some power design issues, though they were rectified for the X16 version of the chipset. Motherboards based on the 915 and 925 series of chipsets will not work at all, as the chipsets do not have support for more than one processor core (a result of Intel trying to prevent motherboard manufacturers making Xeon motherboards with the chipsets, as happened with the 875P). The 865 and 875 series chipsets do have multiprocessor support, so motherboards based on these chipsets may be Pentium D compatible, so long as the manufacturer provides an appropriate BIOS update.

As with a multiprocessor PC, the Pentium D provides significant performance improvement only with applications that have been written specifically for multiple CPUs or cores — such as most 3D rendering programs and video encoders — and in heavy multitasking situations where the PC user is running several CPU-heavy applications, and each core can handle a different application. Most business applications and games as of 2005 only use a single thread, so for these applications running alone, the Pentium D will deliver largely the same performance as an older Pentium 4 running at the same clock rate. However, applications rarely run alone on PCs running Linux, BSD-family, or Microsoft Windows operating systems.

After a week of confusion following the processor's launch, Intel officially denied a report in Computerworld Today Australia that the Pentium D includes "secret" digital rights management features in hardware that could be utilized by Microsoft Windows and other operating systems, but was not publicly disclosed. While it admitted that there were some DRM technologies in the 945 and 955 series of chipsets, it stated that the extent of the technologies was exaggerated, and that the technologies in question had been present in Intel's chipsets since the 875P.

Presler
The newest generation of Pentium D processors are based on the Presler core, a pairing of "Cedar Mill" cores. Even though Presler is a single package, that package has two die in it, enhancing manufacturing yields of the processor over a single die approach. Presler can be supported by the same chipsets as Smithfield. It is produced using the 65 nm technology. Presler communicates with the system with an 800 MT/s FSB (while the Pentium Extreme Edition 955 uses a 1066 MT/s FSB), and the two cores communicate using the FSB, just as Smithfield does. It also includes VT (Virtualization Technology, aka Vanderpool), EM64T, XD bit and EIST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology)¹. It was released in the 1st quarter of 2006. Models include 920, 930, 940, 950 and 960 (2.8, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4 and 3,6 GHz).

¹ - First batch of Presler CPUs (revision B1) have EIST feature turned off by microcode update because of stability issues. This affects only idle power consumption and thermal dissipation. Chips with working EIST will start shipping in Q2 2006. They will have different S-Spec number which can be found in Intel errata documentation.

Successor
Main article: Intel Core 2
The Pentium D will be replaced by the Intel Core 2 line of processors using the "Conroe" core based upon the Intel Core Microarchitecture, scheduled for release in the third quarter of 2006 [1]. Intel Core 2 processors will be released as both dual and single core.

Implementation
In a single-processor scenario, the CPU-to-north bridge link is point-to-point and the only real requirement is that it is fast enough to keep the CPU fed with data from memory.

When assessing the Pentium D, it is important to note that it is essentially two CPUs in the same package and that it will face the same bus contention issues as a pair of Xeons. To use a crude analogy, one can say that instead of using a single cable between CPU and north bridge, one must use a Y-splitter. Leaving aside advanced issues such as cache coherency, each core can only use half of the 800 MT/s FSB when under heavy load.

Going from a 533 MT/s FSB to an 800 MT/s FSB, a 3 GHz Pentium 4 achieved a speed increase of up to 12%, typically around 6%. [2]



Pentium D
One of Intel's first dual-core 64-bit Pentium CPUs. Introduced in 2005 along with the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840, they both share the EM64T 64-bit technology, but the Pentium D does not include Hyper-Threading. The Pentium D's two execution cores provide two completely parallel processing streams. See dual core and Pentium Processor Extreme Edition.

Answer 5

Let the old one
and buy a new one
;)