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Subject: Re: The old Intel vs AMD question again

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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