AMD Athlon64

IMO you dont need such a fast cpu for gaming. And gaming is the only area in wich the Athlon64 beats its competition.

Originally posted by Barney@Feb 10 2004, 01:36 PM
IMO you dont need such a fast cpu for gaming. And gaming is the only area in wich the Athlon64 beats its competition.

Where it doesnt beat its competition in performance, it still beats it in price - tis' another that A64 holds over IEE

Who says you need a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition for gaming? You can spend $159 for a P4 2.4C and combine it with a Radeon 9800XT and dual channel DDR and still be a very satisfied gamer.

The following was taken from an article written by the people over at Anandtech:

"The Athlon 64 quickly distinguished itself as the Gaming CPU with its outstanding performance in almost every 32-bit game. With that kind of 32-bit advantage, we fully expected 64-bit gaming to fly.



Gaming is the one area in the preview that is a disappointment. As you can see, the standard benchmark games under XP64 Preview were 4% to 51% slower than 32-bit, with the average speed about 20% slower. It is far too early to reach any conclusions in this area, but there is a lot of driver optimization to be done to make up this kind of delta. With the CPU and memory providing faster 64-bit performance, we have to believe the drivers play a big part in this disappointing gaming performance."

Originally posted by Orion@Feb 10 2004, 09:09 PM
Who says you need a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition for gaming?

you tell me... :Oo:

I am telling you lol. I am telling you that you do not need the EE for gaming. But a fast CPU does help or at least a CPU that is more up to date. I mean, it would suck to play games with a Radeon 9800XT on a Pentium II 400MHz lol.