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Author:  Fogmeister [ Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Can an Atom beat a Pentium
Tom's Hardware benchmark test pitting the heavy weight 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 against the infantile 1.66GHz Atom D510.

Watch the Pentium get destroyed!

MWAHAHAHAHA!

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/atom-d510 ... 31948.html

Very interesting. I wonder if the company I work for realise they are buying and shipping out obsolete and defunct hardware to our branches?

I'm currently using a 3.2GHz PC with 3.25GB (don't ask) of RAM and an 80GB HDD.

I could spec a brand new machine for under £100 that would out perform every computer in the company and would reduce the leccy bill by a hell of a lot.
Author:  okenobi [ Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
Switching out any P4 for just about ANY other CPU will save you a fortune in juice and be quicker. It's possibly the crappest thing produced by Intel, maybe ever.
Author:  veato [ Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
Fogmeister wrote:
Tom's Hardware benchmark test pitting the heavy weight 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 against the infantile 1.66GHz Atom D510.

Watch the Pentium get destroyed!

MWAHAHAHAHA!

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/atom-d510 ... 31948.html

Very interesting. I wonder if the company I work for realise they are buying and shipping out obsolete and defunct hardware to our branches?

I'm currently using a 3.2GHz PC with 3.25GB (don't ask) of RAM and an 80GB HDD.

I could spec a brand new machine for under £100 that would out perform every computer in the company and would reduce the leccy bill by a hell of a lot.


To be fair I'm not suprised the Atom Dxxx beats an old P4 in some tasks. It's Core architecture and dual core.
Author:  Fogmeister [ Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
Well I definitely knew that a new generation xGHz processor would always out perform an xGHz previous gen processor.

But, for a 1.6GHz processor to destroy (in most cases) a processor that is over twice the speed still surprised me.
Author:  Bluespider [ Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
Ah but....

whatever you save in electricity with the new processors will need to be spent heating the place :D
Author:  Fogmeister [ Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
Bluespider wrote:
Ah but....

whatever you save in electricity with the new processors will need to be spent heating the place :D

LOL, true.
Author:  JJW009 [ Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
Fogmeister wrote:
Bluespider wrote:
Ah but....

whatever you save in electricity with the new processors will need to be spent heating the place :D

LOL, true.

With caveats.

In the summer, most offices need cooling rather than heating. Every extra watt used by the computers takes an additional 2 or 3 to remove the waste heat.

In the winter, many places are heated by gas or other forms of power which are far more efficient.

But if your only source of heat is an electric fire and you live somewhere cold all year, then yep. True.
Author:  Bluespider [ Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
To be fair, I think my answer was funnier...

I may be biased though :lol:
Author:  Fogmeister [ Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
Bluespider wrote:
To be fair, I think my answer was funnier...

I may be biased though :lol:

On a scale of factual to funny...
Code:
Factual ---------|--------- Funny
JJW009                 Bluespider
Author:  bally199 [ Tue Nov 09, 2010 1:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
They had to use a Northwood architecture P4, didn't they :roll:
Author:  Linux_User [ Tue Nov 09, 2010 1:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
bally199 wrote:
They had to use a Northwood architecture P4, didn't they :roll:


They tried a Prescott but it melted the office.
Author:  veato [ Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Can an Atom beat a Pentium
Remember the Pentium D. That was sh*t hot.

Oh no, that's not right. It was sh*t AND hot.
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