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Subject: Re: AMD 1.73Ghz vs Intel P4 2.53Ghz -=- The winner is...........

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 05:20:18 05/27/02

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On May 27, 2002 at 06:37:49, Slater Wold wrote:

>On May 27, 2002 at 06:23:38, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>If only looking at the speed of the chess programs [not much difference] and
>>considering the price between AMD 1.73 GHz and P4 2.53 GHz [much difference],
>>the decision of what to buy should still be an easy one: AMD and by the way,
>>such comparisons [oranges with apples] do not count for me. Finally, I think it
>>is just a matter of taste which CPU to prefer.
>>Kurt
>
>This wasn't testing price.  It wasn't testing value.  It wasn't testing users
>taste.
>
>It was testing one thing:  speed.
>
>And say all you want, Intel has the fastest CPU available.

I'm not sure. You might have been testing the new 533 Mhz memory it uses.
Various tests have already shown that the processor speed alone ( ie with the
old memory ) isn't faster than the Athlon.

Tony




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