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My daughter's boyfriend turned me on to this discussion at the MegaGames
web site http://www.megagames.com/news/show.cgi?&idtype=pc&database=152&;
"It is official, after millions of test runs, thousands of benchmarking
trials and hundreds of hours, the results on the fastest and all round best
processor available are in. Will it be AMD's Athlon 1.33 GHz or Intel's
Pentium 4 1.7 GHz Willamette wonder that will grab the much coveted title?
Looking at the core frequency GHz values assigned to each processor you
would tend to think that the winner would be obvious but the test results
tell a different story.
"There is of course no clear winner. As is usual with these benchmarking
face offs, each processor seems to have its strong points. After looking at
the results you can't help but get the feeling that these are almost the
same processor as far as performance averages are concerned."
AMD seems to have a slight edge with applications, INTC seems to have a
slight edge with games. TS2Ki, being graphics and processor intensive like
games are, would seem to do best with the INTC processor. But apparently,
the differences are very minor and probably not noticeable to the trader.
The real issue is that the both the newer generation chips way outperform
the previous generation.
My new system works incredibly well with TS2Ki. I couldn't care less what
brand powers it because both the performance difference and the price
difference are negligible.
>>I'm certainly not qualified tech wise to argue one over the other but:
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>>A) I've run TS on both Intel (since 386) and AMD since 486 vintage machines:
>>No problem at all on the AMD's regardless of what Omega says, and FWIW that
>>old AMD 486 is still working just fine for my kid.
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>>B) Many (if not most) things I've read say the Athlon is a *better
>>chip,* not just cheaper, than the P4.
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>>C) Look at the charts of AMD and INTC if you want a "put your money
>>where your mouth is" comparison since the new Athlons and the P4's
>>hit the market.
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>>Some would have you believe Intel is the only quality choice. That
>>seems blind brand loyalty to me. It's a two horse race now, and IMHO
>>that's a good thing.
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