Author: Brandon
Date: 23:22:07 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 07:49:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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 It's a leapfrog race. One company ups the ante and then the other company ups the ante. You can rest assured that Intel will have a response for the AMD Hammer, they have been in their business for a long time and they're certainly not dumb. So rest assured, Intel will have a response "product" when the AMD Hammer comes out, it always works like that... and the cycle starts again... - Brandon
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