Tim: Mandrake Forum ran a poll last week that showed that about 60% of those responding use some kind of AMD CPU; only about 35% use Intel (Macs and others accounted for the rest). Evidently Linuxers aren't impressed by those little blue critters in the Intel TV ads. -- cmg
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 11:22 am, Tim Holmes wrote: > Looks like everybody has joined the 'bandwagon!' > > AMD is the way to go. They do as much, if not more then lower end P4s. > They're also, in some cases 40% of the price. (Depending on speed of > course!) I mean I bought 1.2 Ghz Athlon for like $120 I believe. That's > with 266 FSB as well. I just did a check on a local computer store's > prices, that's now down to $105. > >>> snip > > I would suggest going DDR. Real cheap, and performing very well! I think > we'll move towards that, instead of RAMBUS like M$ and Intel seem to want > us to. > tdh > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > | I'm shopping for a motherboard and CPU. At least a Pentium III and maybe > | I'll spend the bucks for a Pentium 4. I'll consider AMD also. Any > | recommendations? The more PCI slots, the better. But, I want a board > | that's 100% Linux compatible - I don't to spend a couple of months > | trying to make stuff work.
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