At 07:13 29/11/01 +0000, lester@lsces.co.uk wrote:
I thought this might interest someone that is about ready to get a new system. It seems, that even AMD's low end is better than Intel's high end stuff. :-)
It's fairly common knowledge around here. The only problem is convincing customers that they don't need an Intel chip. One of mine was about to buy 10 £2000 Pentium machines to update his drawing office, until I showed him the same application on a £1000 Athlon machine. Much faster, and things improved even more with 1Gb of DDR ram - try buying that in RIMM <g>
Lester (and others), I'm in the market for a grunt-box as a dedicated Linux workstation (well, with a removable hard drive, as it will play the occasional Evilware game of Total Annihilation, assuming I can't get that working under WINE or similar). I have to admit, I was leanint towards a P4/1.6GHz or better, but the Athlon XP is several hundred Australian Pesos cheaper..... What are your thoughts on DUAL Athlon machines, specifically with regards to cooling and performance ? Any motherboards to stay AWAY from (I prefer non-integrated boards to those with sound/lan on-board, as I will be running an SB Audigy and probably a RAEDON video card - I need the SB for both sound and Firewire for Video Editing). Jon