Author: Geo Disher
Date: 12:41:36 10/21/01
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OK assuming what you are saying is correct about the speed difference ( I still have not seen any concrete data supporting this). If I want something that has equivalent support and reliability ( Someone I can trust to put it together with the right motherboard and parts ect. ) as a Dell machine who do you recommend that I use. 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
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