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Subject: Re: Pentium IV --- Do We Need the Power ?

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 14:23:06 08/22/00

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Dont get your hopes up on performance. A 1.4 GHz P4 is probably slower than a
1.1 GHz Athlon and PIII unless you plan to do only stream processing. And the
guetimated price seems to be $2000 for the CPU and then you need two sticks of
smelly RAMBUS until intel gets its SDRAM chipsets. Better to get a dual Athlon
1.5 GHz or PIII 1.2 GHz machine instead and save some money, the P4 is not SMP
enabled (a really high-end version will be).



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