Early Athys (athlons) were heat prone. The newer ones, are not as much. In fact from what little i've read, they seem to beon par with Intels. As for the numbers they use, ignore it. Read a decent tech site like www.arstechnica.com & get the lowdown on how fast the chip actually runs. Amd & Intell are playing number games with their new chips. :\
Read up a lot ... at least at Ars & Toms Hardware. Femme Brian Durant wrote: > >Again, I strongly recommend an AMD-based system. You can get better > >bang-for-buck that way. Someone else on the list recommended a Soyo Dragon > >motherboard. I second that recommendation. It has built-in sound and ethernet > >that apparently works very well in GNU/Linux. > > Thanks Sridhar, > > Here is what my tech guy says about AMD: > > "Pentium 4 is more stable in long term usage. The processor is cooler then > AMD. If the fan fail then the processor is save because there is a > protection for overheat damage. > > AMD Athlon maybe faster then P4 (in some cases). But most problem I find > when work with Athlon is usualy processor broken, because in longterm usage > the fan is usually getting weak and it cause the processor not working very > well. > > AMD Athlon XP 1800 is shown on bios is 1.5GHz not 1.8GHz, but AMD claims > that the speed is 1.8GHz." > > Now, I don't know a lot about this, as I say, this will be my first PC. > It does seem to be that the price for an AMD Athlon XP 1800 is about $US > 50 more than for an Intel P4 1.6GHz at the moment in Indonesia. As to > reliability and heat issues, someone please enlighten me. > > Cheers, > > Brian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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