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The New Athlons
An anonymous reader linked us to an article about the new batch of athlons. The story talks about the new 1.1 ghz mobile athlon 4, and also good price cuts for the older ones. I'm thinking its time to build my game machine.
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Building a new box from scratch right now is stupid cheap...
CPU Athlon 1.4 GHZ $120.00
Motherboard Epox 8KHA $115.00
Memory 256 Megs PC2100 Cas2 $37.79
Hard Drive IBM 60GXP 40 GB 7200RPM $112.00
CDRW 16x10x40x $87.00
DVD 16x $49.00
Video Kyro II $88.00
NIC NetGear $10.00
Sound SbLive Value $43.00
Floppy Generic $10.00
Case Fong Kai FK-603 $90.00
Cooling Vanteck CKK $31
Price* $792.79
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This is what Tom says about the new CPU's:
l on 1400-17.html
"AMD's newly released Athlon 1400/266 is able to beat Intel's Pentium 4 1.7 GHz in a lot of benchmarks. The Intel processor performs better in Internet content creation software and some new 3D-games. Athlon can leave Pentium 4 far behind in 3D-rendering software, because of its superior FPU-performance.
Except for 3D-rendering software, Athlon 1400 and Pentium 4 1.7 GHz are pretty much neck on neck. However, the lower price tag of Athlon 1400/266 is clearly making it the more attractive product. It is also more versatile, as you can find inexpensive (though lower performing) PC133 platforms as well as DDR-motherboards for it, while Pentium 4 is still only supported by Intel850 platforms that require the expensive RDRAM memory. "
The whole article is here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q2/010608/ath
--sn0w
actually .. IIRC he stated once that he dual boots.. about an year ago i think ..
..
.. how much will you pay me ?
when he was talking of some laptop thingy
whatever.. he said that he keeps the partition
for games.. or something
give him a break will ya !
he's not an elitist linux zealot
so buddy Taco
:)
Here posted today. Basically the SiS 735 wins:
The real beauty of the 735 isn't its performance, especially since you'll find it quite difficult to notice a performance difference (in most cases) between it and the 760/KT266. No, the real beauty of the 735 is its price. The ECS board we used in this review retails for less than $80. We have seen it places for as low as $65 plus shipping. This makes the board and the platform the perfect companion for the very low cost Duron and Athlon processors. For less than $200 you can easily upgrade your system to a Duron on a SiS 735 board with DDR SDRAM courtesy of the very aggressive pricing from AMD, SiS and DDR SDRAM manufacturers such as Crucial.