I agree with them both. Personally, I have never owned an Intel chip. I'm a huge AMD fan. You just can't beat the price/performance advantage. I'm currently running a Athlon 1700+ XP and couldn't be happier.
As far as the on board stuff, like Jochem, I wouldn't care about the ATA. I'm in to 3D gaming, so I definately opted for a 3rd party products over the audio andf video that might come on board. try www.sharkyextreme.com for some in depth benchmark comparisons between Intel and AMD chips. Here's a review for the AMD Athlon 2200+ XP. http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/cpu/article.php/1363691 Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: Re: Chip Sets (was Re: New computer) > I agree with Jochem 100% and am personally a big AMD fan...I'm buying a > Hammer as soon as possible, but I wouldn't shy away from reccomending a P4 > 2.2 at all to anyone if I couldn't convince them to get an Athlon. The 2.2's > are the new Northwoods with 512k cache on the new 0.13 process and a 400Mhz > QDR bus while the new Athlons max's out at 266Mhz DDR. Very nice chip...as > long as you don't mind buying Rambus...it's crippled with DDR, and I > personally wont touch Rambus because the company is run by a bunch of > scumbags. > I think the car analogy is that the Athlon is to the Viper as the P4 is to > the Porshe. I like raw horsepower...who needs shock absorbers! :) The > Athlon is really the DIYer chip of choice these days, it kills the P4 on the > price/performance scale, while the P4 gets all the OEM sales because of the > Intel name. > > jon ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
