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On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 06:06, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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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