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My Celeron 300A cost $80
My abit bh6 board was $120
Overclocked to 450
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Well lets call an apple an orange.
An AMD K6 450-3 cost $70 and can be overclocked to 566. With a $80 FIC 100mhz Motherboard, I've gotten a faster PC for less. A few of my AW3 buds fly this vary PC.
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You cant get a K-7 chip for the total cost
of what I had spent. Plus K-7 are realivly new.
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Speed costs son, how fast do you want to go?
(borrowed from HT)
Yes the K-7 is brand spanking new and the 500 is under $200, the 710 about $250. I'm not able to pay the ungodly price for the 810. I'm waiting for the motherboard that will take the 500-810, I'll but the 500 now, and wait for the 810 price drop.
The K6-3 500 is right around $100.
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Amd has always had a problem with floating point. Never has been an issue with intell.
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Man I KNEW this was going to come up, now I'll set you straight. Yes the AMD K-6s can't handle heavy 6 or greater digit number crunching, like spreadsheets, this is a fact, but they aren't designed for that. Also The 3D instructions are far superior to Itels.
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Also once an OS that is put out that will support multi processors and runs games well. Then I can buy the Abit board and slave the second cpu (Celeron)and have a 700 to 900 mghz system for about $200.
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Well someday you can have a patched together system, & yes NT & Intel can do it now, better than AMD, but with no Plug & Play support. I looked heavly into a duel Intel system with NT. What I found out is that very few non-business apps will run on a duel CPU set up, heck if AH didn't run I'd have a super fast PC, and not be able to fly :-(
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K-7's maybe ok but until the gamers give them a good run thru .
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Already been done. ZD TV's show "The Screensavers" are building super gaming PCs. Both with Intel & AMD. Go and read their site .
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Most will stay with intel.
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Most will, Like I said, when someone sells me a true 32bid OS with PnP, I'll go Intel also.
I've ran my K-6 200M2 for 3 years now 10-12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and have had no problems, and great flying.
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and the price drops
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Gee My wholesaler always has AMDs for less than Intel.
BTW I live 30 minutes form the Intel plant, here in Washington. Let me tell you a bit of travia. You know how AMD got their start? They were an Intel start up company that made Intel 486 CPUs, when Itnel couldn't keep up with demand back in the early 90s. They new the 32bit CPUs were coming out and told Intel that until the OS cought up, that sticking with a 16 bit hardware, was the way to go. The Super socket seven is still the fastest 16 bit motherboard for benchmarking. Oh yes the Alpha and others are faster, but they run NT and are 32 bit.
Oh yeah, the world is flat!
Mr.ED
Pony Driver
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