Athlon / AMD / Pentium

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Georges

Hi,
I am looking for a new pc and I don't know which processor
I should choose.
I will need to run XP pro or Windows 2000 server with
Visual Studio.NET.
I am looking at processor >2GHz.
I have been looking at some benchmark data but it isn't
easy to understand.
Any recommandation/links/ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Georges
 
My last Intel based PC had a Slot 1 PIII 450mhz cpu on an Asus P2b mobo.
Across the years one reads bits and pieces and I remember, ages ago, reading
on the web that several chunks of Windows code, in Windows platforms are
coded to run more efficiently on Intel cpu/chipset based systems.

So AMD's answer, (because they're copyright barred from duplicating some
Intel cpu architecture etc.), is to say, "Mhz for mhz - our cpu's are
faster that Intel." ...work that one out !

I consider it all a load of crap !

I'm still using my gorgeous, stable, reliable and swift AMD Athlon 1.4ghz on
an Asus A7A266 / [256mb ddram 133mhz/266 fsb \ PC2100] and I still can't
keep up with it !!

.......so why am I tempted to upgrade it ? !!##!! ......why would I want to
sit for those hours and hours and hours of reinstalling and tweaking and
upgrading drivers and problem solving, and patching this and that until I
have a robust system like I've already got ???????

over the past few years I've been warming to Packard Bell, and Dell and
other major machines. I'm beginning to think it must be worth the extra 2
or 3 hundred quid, to get a machine where everything has already been
tweaked and problem solved !

regards, Richard
 
AMD Athlons used to be better value but now they've been
left behind by Pentium 4 800fsb with Hyperthreading.
Personally I think the 2.4Ghz is excellent value because
it can easily overclock to >3Ghz. Mine runs quite happily
at 2.64Ghz and doesn't even begin to get warm with
standard heatsink\fan. Runs dual channel DDR ram too
which is a bonus.
 
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