AW: [vorbis] Are AMDs preferable? [was: Choosing a processor]

[Randall Hofland]

P2s are long gone, so you must mean P3. And regarding another later comment
about Intel chipsets, the BX440 was anything but a slouch although only a few
boards using it were set up to allow the use of PC133 memory without also
overclocking the PCI and AGP buses (Abit's BX133 comes to mind).

As for P4, the latest I've heard (currently a few weeks old) is that the
current P3 Coppermines will soon begin to replace the Celerons and that newer
P4s will replace current offerings, including P4 Xeons for large SMP servers.
That is a common Intel strategy, nothing to be surprised about, and while I
could be quite incorrect, I doubt it.

That still leaves AMD in the drivers seat for now.

Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Thu, 31 May 2001, fungus wrote:
> > Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > Keep in mind the P4 is not Intel's new performance line;
> > > Intel intends the P4 to replace the celeron!!
> > > Intel's "high performance" and "server" processor lines
> > > remain the Xeon and P3.
> > I checked Intel's web site but I couldn't find where
> > they said that....
> > http://www.intel.com/procs/perf/pentium4/
> > I only see something which says "great performance increase
> > for compute intensive software".
>
> They didnt explicitly state it, but it's how they're marketing it and all
> the benchmarks indicate thats where the P4 is being targeted.
>
> http://www.intel.com/intel/product/index.htm
>
> Intel Processors -> Desktop Processors (P4/P3/Celeron/P2)
>                  -> Server Processors (Itanium/Xeon/P3 Xeon/P2 Xeon)
>
> P4 isnt a server processor, and Intel isnt marketing it to be one.
> The P3 architecture continues to be Intel's performance line.
> The Xeon is basically P3 with bigger cache to help SMP.
> Note the P2 Xeon is marketed as a server processor, but not the P4!
>
> -Dan
>
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