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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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Tell me about it. My current dilemma is whether to spring now for a SiS 735-based mobo, or to wait to see how the motherboards with the nForce chipset go...since the high-end nForce will be set to suck down data from two DDR DIMMs at a time (remember when you had to buy SIMMs in pairs? similar thing here...), it should pretty well obliterate the only real advantage the P4 has, namely raw bandwidth, leaving the P4 choking on the dust of a (considerably lower clock rate) Athlon.
I'm thinking its time to build my game machine.
If you are talking the latest and greatest games for your "gaming machine", that more than likely means that its a Windows box. Now I admit that my gaming machine is a windows box, but can you, Taco???
You always whine about quicktime movies that you can't play, yet you talk about playing "Black & White" (which I believe is only playable on a windows partition). Now, I know you have at least a small windows partition, but won't admit it. Will you admit taht you are going to have a windows gaming machine??
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
The article mentions forthcoming price cuts by Intel. Here is some info on that, describing dollar values as well as the justification for it - the demo of the Pentium IV 2GHz.
A quick check to Pricewatch.com shows the Athlon 1.4GHz at $107 and the equally performing Pentium 4 1.8GHz for $548 (Note - OEM prices without HS/F). For that same $548 I can get the Athlon 1.4, a $300 GeForce3 and four sticks of 256MB DDR PC2100 RAM.