[ale] Speed comparison

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Marvin Dickens wrote:
>>> It does not, the P4s, especially the celerons are dogs.  I have a
>>> 1.8 GHz celeron and I swear my 800 MHz Athlon runs rings around
>>> it. I've been underwhelmed by the p4 since there were introduced.
>>> Any processor that is slower per clock tick than the previous
>>> generation has something dreadfully wrong.  If you must do P4,
>>> get a real one, not the celeron.
>> 
>> Thanks.  It looks as if I'll be skipping the system due to the
>> Intel tax.  The XP must be better.
> 
> 
> FWIW, I always go with AMD. The only disadvantage I know of is that 
> AMD processors are destroyed in the event of an unnoticed CPU fan
> failure occurs. OTOH, the Intel chips automatically shut themselves
> down when a fan failure occurs and the temperature rises too high.

They now have athlon mb that will shutdown in the same way.  I've got 
two, but I've not tested it. :)


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