The PIII copermine beats Athlon anyday.
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 02:13:36PM +0530, Bhavin Sheth wrote:
> Hi Jayanth,
>
> when u check out K6, take care to see if it is K6-2 or K6-III. K6-2 is
> supposed to be opposite to P-II but at the same clock speeds, P-II is a far
> better performer than K6-2. P-III is supposed to be equivalent to a K6-III
> but K6-III doesnt show a good performance in processer intensive tasks
> (even when it has the 3D-Now! instuction set). But if u really got lots of
> money to spend, go for AMD's Athlon (say) 700 Mhz. combined with 128MB RAM
> and a good 3dfx card (S3-Savage 4), your system will fly ! personally I
now i'm confused. aren't 3dfx and S3 to _different_ companies? ;)
The savage 4 sux. get a 3dfx V3.
Nikhil.
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