AMD has come a long way from its K6-II and K6-II days. Athlons are in general faster than their Pentium counterparts, but I agree that you have to take at least a few steps (eg. buying a good heatsink) to ensure that your system does not overheat. For the do-it-yourself hardware enthusiasts, this is not a problem and even a source of great fun, but for those people who would just like to have their computer in place so that they can install their software, this might be too tedious.
Personally, I'm getting an Athlon for my next upgrade coz it's cheaper and the 1.4GHz Athlon XP even beats the Pentium 2GHz in some gaming benchmarks (see Anandtech articles on Athlon XP). But then again, I love installing heatsinks on CPUs. =) So it's really up to your personal preferences. Gabby Dizon Web Developer Inq7 Interactive, Inc. http://www.inq7.net ps sorry, i think we're getting a little off-topic here =) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rowel Atienza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [plug] PC Shopping Guide, Christmas 2001 > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, plug bert wrote: > > > > > When Tom(www.tomshardware.com, an AMD fanatic) > > confronted AMD about this, AMD responded that future > > mobo manufacturers will incorporate overheat > > protection features for AMD processors. > > > > > > But hey, this is just my personal experience. If u > > still remain an AMD fan, then at the very least put > > the system through its paces: runs benchmarks and > > drive that cpu up to 100% utilization. If there are > > any AMD success stories out there, please do share > > your experiences! Make me an AMD convert B) > > > AMD is cheap and fast. I was an AMD fan before until I bought this > AMD K6-II 500MHz a year ago. After building my own PC from parts I bought > from several places, the system can not install any OS. Not wanting to > surrerder, I did everything I can until I found out that the only way I > could install an OS is by disabling the level 2 cache. It worked but the > whole system became excruciatingly slow. Slower than a 486. That time I > decided to return the cpu and motherboard and pay a P1.5K premium for > Celeron 500MHz. Since then, the system has not let me down. > I am not from Intel either. > > rowel > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
