At 11:18 PM 12/6/00 +0000, you wrote:
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>
> > So then, armed with all this info, I guess it now boils down to which
> > way I wish to go. Obviously, you are of the opinion that I should take
> > this Athlon route. This is sounding like the way I will go, and if I
> > do, I will bump the RAM up to 256.
>
>Well, I hope your KT7-RAID works. Mine didn't, and the place I got it from
>(Transcend PC) went out of business right after I received the shipment.
>Looks like I'm out $170. Anyway, if you really want an upgradeable
>motherboard, you might want to wait a month or two and get a DDR-capable
>Athlon motherboard. They had some problems with the earliest variants of
>the AMD-760 chipset, but they'll be resolved soon I imagine.
>
> > Thanks for the info on P4s. I will continue to wait on it, if for no
> > other reason than the price and that there is only one MB maker at this
> > time.
>
>Actually ASUS makes a P4 board now, and it's faster than the Intel one
>because they use more aggressive memory settings (which make the RIMMs run
>hotter but give them faster response times). Still, Rambus is pretty steep-
>a name-brand 128MB ECC PC800 RIMM is around $300- almost four times the
>cost of a 128MB PC150 SDRAM DIMM.
>
> > Besides, if I do go with the Athlon, there would not be any point
> > in quickly going to the P4. Hopefully this weekend I can study and
> > digest all your additional comments on it for pure knowledge increase.
> > Just as an FYI, I do use Photoshop which is one of the few applications
> > that can also use dual processors.
>
>I learned recently that AMD won't release its dual-processor chipset until
>the middle of 2001, which is a disappointment. As I probably mentioned
>before, Intel plans to release 2GHz P4s in January, though dual-processing
>capability is reserved for the workstation/server version of the P4, which
>again won't be out for several months. But Intel had better cash in on the
>P4 while it can, because an interesting rumor I read last week turned out
>to be true: AMD is working with a company which manufactures isotopically
>pure Silicon-28 wafers, and these will be used for the next-generation
>Athlon (Palomino). There are reports of prototype processors using this
>silicon running at 1.7GHz with only a heat sink- no fan. If this is the
>case, Intel is going to be in bad shape in a few months unless they work
>out a deal with that company as well, because I can say right now that
>unless tons of software is heavily optimized for SSE2 in the near future, a
>2GHz P4 will not compete with a 1.7GHz Athlon on a DDR platform in much of
>anything.
>
>Evan
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