Personally, I'd rather have a PIII but Intel has been sufferring with the whole RDRAM 820i chipset fiasco. Of course you can use the Via 133A chipset, which is a decent replacement but suffers from some memory bandwidth and AGP issues for some boards. Athlons are very fast especially if you like playing 3D games but you need a special device to overclock them. As a self proclaimed hard core gamer / overclocker I'd wait until the new Celerons come out. People whine about the 66MHz bus speed but I think it's a blessing. Multiplier of 9 x 66MHz bus = 600MHz. Multipler of 9 x 100MHz bus = 900MHz! All I gotta say is w00t! Plus Celeron IIs can run on the BX chipset so there's no need to get a new board for that Coppermine EB or Athlon. Another thing is I think Via announced that they are working on a chipset that supports DDR RAM which runs at 266MHz? (not quite sure). Until RDRAM becomes anything near reasonable (oh the price dropped! it's only 500 bucks! yay!) I'd stick with DDR RAM for any future system. But think about it this way. Who cares? 6 months later you're going to upgrade anyway.:P -chongus
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Ah, America Online and Microsoft. 2 enemies of many computer users. Of course, most computer people that like to fit in with the crowd always say "AOL SuX!" and that Microsoft is destroying our economy, is evil, Bill Gates must die, etc. Yet unlike Microsoft, AOL has not had the DoJ harrass them about their business tactics. In my opinion, I think AOL deserves the wrath of the DoJ rather than MS. Why? Well, asides from me being a Microsoft supporter I'd have to say that AOL has screwed the consumer and MS, well they have done some things I haven't approved of but generally they do good work. Microsoft gave us the gift (or curse) of having computers in the homes of almost all people, regardless of how knowledgeable they are with computers. What has AOL given us? Script kiddies that like to TaLk LiK3 ThiS D00D. They gave us Fate X3 and AoHeLL95. I'd have to say that AOL popularized credit card fraud. I think AOL also possible coined the term "spam." I remember the slight time I was on AOL that I would be assaulted by more junk mail than normal mail. And then, they upped the price to 21.95 dollars. What was the point of doing that? I don't think they added any extra services that was worth 2 extra dollars a month. Also think about this: AOL has popup advertisements when you sign on. AllAdvantage pays you to look at banner advertisements and they pay you. I'd think that AOL is exploiting their customers in order to make some extra cash from advertisers. Sound like good business to me? I'd have to say no. DoJ, let Microsoft do it's thing. Keep an eye on AOL because they're starting to buy out half the free world. Anyway, my ranting is probably way unorganized but what the hey. Spur of the moment thing. -chongus
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I hope this movie doesn't suck. If so, I'll be forced to run out of the theater screaming "Save me Jeebus!"
Personally, I'd rather have a PIII but Intel has been sufferring with the whole RDRAM 820i chipset fiasco. Of course you can use the Via 133A chipset, which is a decent replacement but suffers from some memory bandwidth and AGP issues for some boards. Athlons are very fast especially if you like playing 3D games but you need a special device to overclock them. As a self proclaimed hard core gamer / overclocker I'd wait until the new Celerons come out. People whine about the 66MHz bus speed but I think it's a blessing. Multiplier of 9 x 66MHz bus = 600MHz. Multipler of 9 x 100MHz bus = 900MHz! All I gotta say is w00t! Plus Celeron IIs can run on the BX chipset so there's no need to get a new board for that Coppermine EB or Athlon. Another thing is I think Via announced that they are working on a chipset that supports DDR RAM which runs at 266MHz? (not quite sure). Until RDRAM becomes anything near reasonable (oh the price dropped! it's only 500 bucks! yay!) I'd stick with DDR RAM for any future system. But think about it this way. Who cares? 6 months later you're going to upgrade anyway. :P -chongus
Ah, America Online and Microsoft. 2 enemies of many computer users. Of course, most computer people that like to fit in with the crowd always say "AOL SuX!" and that Microsoft is destroying our economy, is evil, Bill Gates must die, etc. Yet unlike Microsoft, AOL has not had the DoJ harrass them about their business tactics. In my opinion, I think AOL deserves the wrath of the DoJ rather than MS. Why? Well, asides from me being a Microsoft supporter I'd have to say that AOL has screwed the consumer and MS, well they have done some things I haven't approved of but generally they do good work. Microsoft gave us the gift (or curse) of having computers in the homes of almost all people, regardless of how knowledgeable they are with computers. What has AOL given us? Script kiddies that like to TaLk LiK3 ThiS D00D. They gave us Fate X3 and AoHeLL95. I'd have to say that AOL popularized credit card fraud. I think AOL also possible coined the term "spam." I remember the slight time I was on AOL that I would be assaulted by more junk mail than normal mail. And then, they upped the price to 21.95 dollars. What was the point of doing that? I don't think they added any extra services that was worth 2 extra dollars a month. Also think about this: AOL has popup advertisements when you sign on. AllAdvantage pays you to look at banner advertisements and they pay you. I'd think that AOL is exploiting their customers in order to make some extra cash from advertisers. Sound like good business to me? I'd have to say no. DoJ, let Microsoft do it's thing. Keep an eye on AOL because they're starting to buy out half the free world. Anyway, my ranting is probably way unorganized but what the hey. Spur of the moment thing. -chongus