Equavelent

[dutch13]

I just bought a P2 550. I was able to unlock a third core and I overclocked it to 3.33ghz. What would be and intel Equavelent to my cpu?

I am mainly interested because a few of my friends are acting as though my cpu is crap.

Cheers

 

[Herr_Koos]

You can safely tell them they don't know what they're talking about. ;-)

An unlocked PII 550 @ 3.33GHz would be roughly in the range of an X4 955, which is just about the equal of a Core 2 Quad 9450:

http://anandtech.com/bench/Product/88?vs=51

On the gaming front, your CPU will be able to keep up with much more expensive Intel chips, as many benchmarks will show.

Hopefully you have a solid GPU to back it up. Then all you have to do is crank up the resolution and watch your ignorant friends' jaws drop in disbelief.

 

[jsc]

I mostly use Intel CPU's, but a PII (X3 ) at 3.33 GHz ain't too shabby at all.

 

[Herr_Koos]

Whoops, I misread a bit, I thought you'd unlocked all four cores.

 

[dutch13]

So its not some crap cpu. That is realy good to know. I have a XFX 5770 overclocked to beyond xxx standards. While we are on the subject. Do you think that with the cpu and gpu I will be able to utilize my dads gift of a 2494HS samsung 23.6 inch. Still thanyou for you assistence.

 

[yannifb]

So its not some crap cpu. That is realy good to know. I have a XFX 5770 overclocked to beyond xxx standards. While we are on the subject. Do you think that with the cpu and gpu I will be able to utilize my dads gift of a 2494HS samsung 23.6 inch. Still thanyou for you assistence.

Assuming the resolution is 1920 x 1080 the 5770 should do a pretty decent job, especially considering you overclocked it.