Author: john rice
Date: 13:34:33 04/22/02
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"the 2400 will be even more susceptible to fire". LOL, I have never heard of an AMD processor causing a fire. If that was the case, there would be major recalls of AMD processor based computer systems. Thousands of lawsuits for wrongful death, destruction of property and who know's what else. AMD would go under in a matter of months. Jr On April 22, 2002 at 12:08:10, Chritopher A. Morgan wrote: >The Athlon XP 2100 is available now (1.73 GHz). Tigerdirect.com has a fairly >good XP 2100 system without monitor for $1,050. According to Tom’s Hardware >site the Athlon XP 2400 (1.918 GHz) should be released this month, April. There >is no info on the AMD site re the 2400 that I could find. > >I know little about hardware, other than what I have picked up over the last 15 >years using PCs and looking at performance tests on various sites. I only >upgrade every 24-30 months or so, and always get the latest and best available >when I do upgrade. My current computer is Athlon 750 bought in December 2000. >I plan to go with AMD again, the XP 2100 or XP 2400. > >For those that know much more than I do, should I wait for the 2400? I don’t >mind paying an extra $300-$500 for the 2400, nor waiting a month or two. I know >there is a real heat problem with this series of AMD processors, and the 2400 >will be even more susceptible to fire than the 2100. I wonder if the >performance increase, 190 MHz, is worth it? > >A related question. The Tigerdirect.com machine comes with MS XP Home edition. >I use my computer heavily in work - spreadsheets, tax programs, word processing, >Internet, etc. in addition to computer chess, of course. For an additional $100 >I can get MS XP Pro edition installed. Should I do so? I’d almost rather stick >with WIN 98 so I can still use my DOS programs, but maybe I can partition MS XP >so I have a DOS partition? I understand I can’t run DOS programs in MS XP? > >Thanks for any advice!! > >Christopher
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