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Subject: Re: Which computer to buy ?
At 12:44 PM 2/15/01 -0500, William T Wilson wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating
point operations adequately (these are important
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Subject: Re: Which computer to buy ?
Cam Ellison wrote:
Lars Knudsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Antonio!
IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating
point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless
you
Joris Lambrecht wrote:
let's not get carried away here, tom admit's the P4 is inferior to the K7
... FOR NOW ... once P4 optimized program's start showing up you'll see the
K7 squashed on nearly every account, the more expensive P4 will pay off
then.
Looking at how things worked out with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Antonio!
IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating
point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless you
This was true years ago but is certainly not true anymore.
The AMD Duron and Thunderbird chips are at
Lars Knudsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Antonio!
IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating
point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless you
This was true years ago but is certainly not true anymore.
The AMD Duron and
Quoting Lars Knudsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
This was true years ago but is certainly not true anymore.
The AMD Duron and Thunderbird chips are at least as good as
a PIII and very much better than the P4. The P4 is only
worthwhile if you have applications that are specifically
optimized for it
Cam Ellison wrote:
Lars Knudsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Antonio!
IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating
point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless you
This was true years ago but is certainly not
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating
point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless
That isn't really the case any more. Not since the K6, really. The
Pentium 4 has extremely bad floating
At 12:44 PM 2/15/01 -0500, William T Wilson wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating
point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless
That isn't really the case any more. Not since the K6,
On Thursday 15 February 2001 19:08, Jeff Weatherford wrote:
This is absolutely true! The AMD K7's are superior to the Intel chips. My
only complaint is that no one has come up with a dual K7 board. I use AMD
exclusively in single processor boxes and they work like a charm... The
only Intel
William Leese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thursday 15 February 2001 19:08, Jeff Weatherford wrote:
This is absolutely true! The AMD K7's are superior to the Intel
chips. My only complaint is that no one has come up with a dual
K7 board. I use AMD exclusively in single processor boxes
mmm, anyone correct me if i'm wrong.. but i believe tyan will be shipping a
AMD760MP board in march.. theres already been a few preview pics on some
hardware sites..
I believe that's the latest rumor I've heard as well. Some time in
March. Tyan is pushing it though, putting out a
My advice, were you in the US, follows. However, I have no idea if similar
used-computer
prices exist where you are. So you'll have to judge for yourself.
1: get a cheap 88, 86, 286, or 386 system (say, $20-40) (stay away from
IBM, though, due to hardware incompatibilities later).
2. Buy a
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