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Subject: Re: Pent. vs AMD

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:49:28 10/08/02

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On October 07, 2002 at 13:39:54, Rajen Gupta wrote:

the most stupid advice ever you give here.

obviously because of a few reasons. one of them is that after hammer
a new killer cpu from intel will be announced and you of course advice
then to wait for that.

if you wait for the marketing drumbeats of a company, then you can wait
till you're dead before buying something...

Apart from that i'm not looking forward that much to hammer. it's not
so impressive, let me assure you that. Only how many Ghz it delivers is
interesting compared to k7, not the 'extra speed' it gives compared to
k7.

>Unless you are desperate to buy right now i would advise you to wait for a few
>months when the hammer is released. it would blow anything you buy now out of
>the water; more importantly you will be moving to a new architecture and will
>have a more certain upgrade path.
>
>rajen
>
>On October 07, 2002 at 12:42:28, Mike K wrote:
>
>>I'm going to buy a multiple processor MB. Chess wise what would give the best
>>result and is there a web site that would have this info.
>>Mike



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