Author: Ian Aston
Date: 11:39:35 10/21/01
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On October 21, 2001 at 14:22:55, Alan Grotier wrote: >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. They certainly run hot there is no doubt about that. I read on another forum that they don't become unstable till they reach about 70 degrees C, but I don't know how true this is. My AMD 1.3 Athlon runs at about 49 C when idle to 58 C when processor intensive. I wouldn't dare trying to overclock it. IA > >Alain
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