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Subject: Re: The old Intel vs AMD question again

Author: Alan Grotier

Date: 11:22:55 10/21/01

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On October 21, 2001 at 13:22:52, Dan Andersson wrote:

>First of all, you might have to wait a long time to get a P4 2.0 GHz part. They
>are really, really, really scarce. And secondly the AMD Athlon XP 1800+ will be
>faster on just about anything, in chess it will be a substantial difference. The
>P4 will run some special code specially compiled fast. Mostly streaming apps,
>not chess. While The Athlon has allround high performance, the 1800 moniker is
>very conservative.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

Is the AMD as versatile as the Intel chip.
In other words will it run all the programs as well as the Intel.
I have been advised that AMD's over heat.

Alain



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