On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:46:59PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, George Vieira wrote:
>
> > they are short on pentium III 700 Mhz CPUs and would I like an AMD Duron or
> > Athlon instead?
>
> Go the Athlon - the Duron is AMD's version of the Celeron - I.E. it's a
> little short on things a server needs, like FPU performance.
Aye. But it still kicks a PII's arse in many respects (as far as benchmarks
go anyhow - same clockrate too).
> The Athlon will kick a similarly clocked PIII in the arse, though. Make
> sure you get a _recent_ one, however, which is based on their new core
> {can't emember the name offhand - Tom's Hardware will show you, though}.
Thunderbird. Unlike the Duron, they decided not to name this one
after a condom. Although, Thunderbird would make a pretty decent
name for a condom. :)
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