On Thursday 12 August 2004 22:09, Danny Lieberman (Barak) wrote: > The newer Athlons have the same feature as P4 - they shutdown. This is a > feature of the processor
Intels don't shutdown, they throttle down until they can handle the hit. a P3 should throttle down to about 200MHz w/o a heatsink and a fan (depending on the outside temp), I'm not sure how low a P4 would go. > I still say buy Intel processors and Intel. > > The costs differential in a 2x SMP machine is immaterial relative to the > cost of your time in support > and systems integration - Intel is heads above AMD in that department. > > For data intensive stick with Intel mobos and for graphics intensive go for > Giga-byte motherboards. Unless you want 64 bit computing, which can offer a lot of performance headroom with some applications and several important percentile with almost anything. in which case AMD64 is basicly the only contender as the IA64 architecture is much harder to get at decent prices and gives you zero backward compatibility. Also for low-cost high-end graphics and audio I suggest you go with nForce (2 or 3) which is only available for AMD processors. -- Oded ::.. And remember kids, Cheese is Murder! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
