Overall performance /$
Freq/P Audio Gaming Overall Total
CPU R RAM video perf perf Perf price Perf/$
Athlon 2400 DDR333 1.60 1.46 1.53 $903 1.69
Athlon 2200 DDR333 1.46 1.41 1.44 $852 1.69
P4 2400 DDR266 1.65 1.53 1.59 $949 1.68
P4 2533 DDR333
Select your criterium
1.71 1.57 1.64 $982 1.67
Athlon 2700 DDR333 here (gaming,
1.76 1.65 1.70 $1,028 1.66
Athlon 2100 DDR333 audio/video or overall)
1.42 1.38 1.40 $846 1.65
Athlon 2600 DDR266 1.69 1.53 1.61 $996 1.61
P4 2400 DDR333 1.62 1.42 1.52 $951 1.60
Athlon 2000 DDR266 1.36 1.30 1.33 $835 1.59
Athlon 1900 DDR266 1.31 1.29 1.30 $829 1.57
P4 2266 DDR333 1.53 1.48 1.51 $962 1.57
P4 2600 DDR266 1.72 1.48 1.60 $1,027 1.56
Athlon 1800 DDR266 1.26 1.27 1.27 $821 1.54
Athlon 1700 DDR266 1.21
Pricing1.22
details will also
1.24 $814 1.50
Athlon 2800 DDR333 1.81 allow you to update CPU 1.50
1.68 1.74 $1,163
P4 2666 PC1066 1.79 prices. Prices were
1.67 1.73 $1,164 1.49
P4 2200 DDR266 1.47 1.36 obtained from
1.41 $955 1.48
Athlon 1600 DDR266 1.16 pricewatch on 26/2/03
1.20 1.18 $815 1.45
P4 2800 PC1066 1.89 1.72 1.80 $1,283 1.41
Athlon 1500 DDR266 1.11 1.17 1.14 $815 1.40
P4 3066 PC1066 2.31 1.78 2.05 $1,496 1.37
P4 1800 DDR266 1.22 1.21 1.21 $894 1.36
P4 2000 PC800 1.35 1.31 1.33 $1,020 1.30
Athlon 3000 DDR333 1.76 1.71 1.74 $1,360 1.28
Cel 2000 DDR266 1.22 0.94 1.08 $873 1.23
P4W 2000 PC800 1.31 1.19 1.25 $1,023 1.22
Cel 1700 DDR266 1.09 0.91 1.00 $842 1.19
P4W 1800 PC800 1.19 1.13 1.16 $1,008 1.15
P4W 1500 PC800 1.00 1.00 1.00 $992 1.01
Adjust prices as
required
Prices RAM (pricewatch)
1x256 2x256
PC1066 $78 $156
PC800 $55 $110
DDR333 $24 $48
DDR266 $23 $46Intel MB will be chosen
automatically according to the
Motherboard (prices newegg) memory type (to remain
Intel consistenant with benchmark
Asus P4T533 PC1066 $172 results, choose motherboards
Asus P4T533-C PC800 $165 with similar chipset and
Asus P4PE/R/L DDR* $145 memory systems). All athlon
AMD systems will use the same
Asus A7N8X * $120 board (benchmarks performed
with nForce2 dual channel
Rest of system (excluding cpu, ram and MB) $600 DDR board).
Benchmarks courtesy of Toms Hardware Guide
Inspiration courtesy of Calbiker at Aces' harware forum
More info or comments, mail me P4man@bebob.be
If you are not on a fixed budget, it may
be a good idea to fill in the maximum
price of your setup excluding ram, mb
and cpu here. The spreadsheet will
calculate the "optimum" combination of
cpu and platform.
If you are only interested in
price/performance of a certain cpu (in
combination with the platform and ram),
you can enter 0 here. Usefull when
deciding to upgrade your cpu
Gaming CPU Freq/PR RAM Q3 1024x768 3Dmark2001 UT2003 Q3 1024x768
P4W 1500 PC800 192.2 9538 114.2 1.00
P4W 1800 PC800 213.1 10742 130.3 1.11
P4W 2000 PC800 225.5 11346 138.6 1.17
P4 1800 DDR266 227.3 11469 141.2 1.18
P4 2000 PC800 248.1 12266 153.3 1.29
P4 2200 DDR266 254.5 12689 161.6 1.32
P4 2266 DDR333 282.4 13667 175.7 1.47
P4 2400 DDR333 291.8 14131 182.3 1.52
P4 2400 DDR266 266.8 13210 170.2 1.39
P4 2533 DDR333 299.3 14395 188.9 1.56
P4 2600 DDR266 276.9 13626 178.2 1.44
P4 2666 PC1066 326.1 15097 199 1.70
P4 2800 PC1066 334 15493 204.7 1.74
P4 3066 PC1066 351.3 15878 212.5 1.83
Cel 1700 DDR266 153.3 9372 109 0.80
Cel 2000 DDR266 153.8 9663 113.4 0.80
Athlon 1500 DDR266 206.1 11283 143.9 1.07
Athlon 1600 DDR266 212.1 11552 148 1.10
Athlon 1700 DDR266 217.6 11848 152.3 1.13
Athlon 1800 DDR266 224 12082 158.5 1.17
Athlon 1900 DDR266 227.8 12320 160.5 1.19
Athlon 2000 DDR266 227.8 12398 162.7 1.19
Athlon 2100 DDR333 245.6 12966 172.8 1.28
Athlon 2200 DDR333 251.9 13162 176.1 1.31
Athlon 2400 DDR333 261.5 13257 185.3 1.36
Athlon 2600 DDR266 270 14355 190.6 1.40
Athlon 2700 DDR333 296.5 15268 204.9 1.54
Athlon 2800 DDR333 307.2 15427 208.4 1.60
Athlon 3000 DDR333 311.2 15655 215.1 1.62
Prices RAM (pricewatch)
1x256 2x256
PC1066 $78 $156
PC800 $55 $110
DDR333 $24 $48
DDR266 $23 $46
Motherboard (prices newegg)
Intel comment
Asus P4T533 PC1066 $172 (850E board) 850E board supports PC1066 & HT
Asus P4T533-C PC800 $165 (850E board) 850E board, no support for PC1066
Asus P4PE/R/L DDR* $145 845PE board for intel DDR333 or DDR266
AMD
Asus A7N8X * $120 nForce2 board
Rest of system $600
3Dmark2001 UT2003 Gaming perf cpu $ 512 MB $ MB $ Total price Perf/$
1.00 1.00 1.00 $117 $110 $165 $992 1.01
1.13 1.14 1.13 $133 $110 $165 $1,008 1.12
1.19 1.21 1.19 $148 $110 $165 $1,023 1.17
1.20 1.24 1.21 $103 $46 $145 $894 1.35
1.29 1.34 1.31 $145 $110 $165 $1,020 1.28
1.33 1.42 1.36 $164 $46 $145 $955 1.42
1.43 1.54 1.48 $169 $48 $145 $962 1.54
1.48 1.60 1.53 $158 $48 $145 $951 1.61
1.38 1.49 1.42 $158 $46 $145 $949 1.50
1.51 1.65 1.57 $189 $48 $145 $982 1.60
1.43 1.56 1.48 $236 $46 $145 $1,027 1.44
1.58 1.74 1.67 $236 $156 $172 $1,164 1.44
1.62 1.79 1.72 $355 $156 $172 $1,283 1.34
1.66 1.86 1.78 $568 $156 $172 $1,496 1.19
0.98 0.95 0.91 $51 $46 $145 $842 1.08
1.01 0.99 0.94 $82 $46 $145 $873 1.07
1.18 1.26 1.17 $49 $46 $120 $815 1.44
1.21 1.30 1.20 $49 $46 $120 $815 1.48
1.24 1.33 1.24 $48 $46 $120 $814 1.52
1.27 1.39 1.27 $55 $46 $120 $821 1.55
1.29 1.41 1.29 $63 $46 $120 $829 1.56
1.30 1.42 1.30 $69 $46 $120 $835 1.56
1.36 1.51 1.38 $78 $48 $120 $846 1.64
1.38 1.54 1.41 $84 $48 $120 $852 1.66
1.39 1.62 1.46 $135 $48 $120 $903 1.61
1.51 1.67 1.53 $230 $46 $120 $996 1.53
1.60 1.79 1.65 $260 $48 $120 $1,028 1.60
1.62 1.82 1.68 $395 $48 $120 $1,163 1.44
1.64 1.88 1.71 $592 $48 $120 $1,360 1.26
850E board supports PC1066 & HT
850E board, no support for PC1066
845PE board for intel DDR333 or DDR266 with HT support
nForce2 board