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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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Unfortunately, the price of the cpu is not the issue in building a game box. Those geForce 3's are what squeezes your pocketbook dry.
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!
I mean, my notebook has a 566 Mhz celeron, and that things gets so hot sometimes I fear great fears for the poor DVD's I insert into all that heat to be able to watch them whilst on the move.
A 1.13 Ghz notebook will therefore probably become standard issue survival gear since you can work, e-mail, game and toast bread on it. I wouldn't put in a DVD though, it'll probably melt.
Wicked.
-- Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
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