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At 19:41 02/07/2001 -0700, ed garib <egarone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
>I was reading email's about hardware for ts2k and
>everybody is talking about PIII's and AMD's.
>
>I was wondering why nobody is mentioning P4 system.
>
>Actually my question is:
>
>What is the best hardware platform for running ts2k
>with real time feed and with very heavy loads?
>(I know about quality memory and motherboard part.)
>
>I asked the above question to omega tech. support and
>the answer was "we don't recommend hardware".
>
>Money being no object(the most it can vary is few
>hundred dollars between different platforms) please
>describe( or suggest) the best available hardware
>platform (like P4 or dual PIII or AMD) for ts2k.

"AMD's newly released Athlon 1400/266 is able to beat Intel's Pentium 4 1.7 
GHz in a lot of benchmarks. The Intel processor performs better in Internet 
content creation software and some new 3D-games. Athlon can leave Pentium 4 
far behind in 3D-rendering software, because of its superior FPU-performance.

Except for 3D-rendering software, Athlon 1400 and Pentium 4 1.7 GHz are 
pretty much neck on neck. However, the lower price tag of Athlon 1400/266 
is clearly making it the more attractive product. It is also more 
versatile, as you can find inexpensive (though lower performing) PC133 
platforms as well as DDR-motherboards for it, while Pentium 4 is still only 
supported by Intel850 platforms that require the expensive RDRAM memory."

Source:
http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q2/010608/athlon1400-17.html

Hope that might help.

Cheers

Martin