This is kind of offtopic, but I'm just mentioning this because there is always bickering over which is best, Intel or AMD. Short answer, it doesn't $#$#! matter, buy what you want.
What some of you people seem to be ignoring is that Intel and AMD are pretty much on par right now. Sure, AMD has a 1.2GHz thunderbird out, however notice that these chips are only made in dresden at the fab that works with copper interconnects. Is Intel using copper interconnects in their pentium iii's? Nooo. Could that be a reason for their core not scaling any higher? Yeees.
Next point. While the Pentium 4 may be a definete not improvement, there is very little basis to judge that upon right now. Oh, a few benchmarks. Who cares. Remember when the P3 450 came out? It was not faster than the P2 450. Does that mean that I want to use a P2 1000 Mhz in my system? Maybe, but there will never be such a thing for several reasons.
The pentium 4 has definet potential. Who cares that it doesn't give me 125 fps in quake 3 as opposed to 115 fps with a pentium 3 or athlon. Game performance is reaching a ridiculous level anyways, who needs that many fps. There are other things that can be done with computers, maybe the pentium 4 is better at those, who knows, we're only benchmarking Quake 3 and such.
So, just be happy that there is competition and that it keeps the prices down. Choose what you want.
Yup, happened about 2 months ago. I think it must be the ISP that's the problem, since the line can definetly do ~200k/sec, so why is it doing 80k/s all of a sudden. I'm going to call them to see if I really can switch the ISP.
Hmm, I am going to check up on this, but the letter that I received said something along the lines that there is no longer any choice to what ISP I can have, and I have been switched to SBC. Weird, according to that link you posted I'm in LATA 1, and SBC isn't even an option for ISP! Interesting... I should call them up to see what's going on.
I've had the advertised "384kbps-1.5Mbps downstream / 128kbps upstream" DSL from PacBell for about a year now. I used to have it with the PacBell ISP, and I've often got download speeds of ~250k/sec. In other words, even beyond 1.5Mbps. Well, a few months ago I've gotten a letter in the mail from PacBell that they no longer have a choice of ISPs, and the ONLY ISP available is through SBC, to which I was automatically changed. With this new change, my downstream is FIXED at 80k/sec, I guess 640kbps or whatever. Now, I wonder if this is illegal, because it is obviously CAPPED at 640kbps. And I am paying for "384kbps-1.5MBps depending on how good your line is" deal, so if it's capped, at least they should cap it at 1.5MBps.
Long story short, SBC sucks.
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This is kind of offtopic, but I'm just mentioning this because there is always bickering over which is best, Intel or AMD. Short answer, it doesn't $#$#! matter, buy what you want. What some of you people seem to be ignoring is that Intel and AMD are pretty much on par right now. Sure, AMD has a 1.2GHz thunderbird out, however notice that these chips are only made in dresden at the fab that works with copper interconnects. Is Intel using copper interconnects in their pentium iii's? Nooo. Could that be a reason for their core not scaling any higher? Yeees. Next point. While the Pentium 4 may be a definete not improvement, there is very little basis to judge that upon right now. Oh, a few benchmarks. Who cares. Remember when the P3 450 came out? It was not faster than the P2 450. Does that mean that I want to use a P2 1000 Mhz in my system? Maybe, but there will never be such a thing for several reasons. The pentium 4 has definet potential. Who cares that it doesn't give me 125 fps in quake 3 as opposed to 115 fps with a pentium 3 or athlon. Game performance is reaching a ridiculous level anyways, who needs that many fps. There are other things that can be done with computers, maybe the pentium 4 is better at those, who knows, we're only benchmarking Quake 3 and such. So, just be happy that there is competition and that it keeps the prices down. Choose what you want.
Yup, happened about 2 months ago. I think it must be the ISP that's the problem, since the line can definetly do ~200k/sec, so why is it doing 80k/s all of a sudden. I'm going to call them to see if I really can switch the ISP.
Hmm, I am going to check up on this, but the letter that I received said something along the lines that there is no longer any choice to what ISP I can have, and I have been switched to SBC. Weird, according to that link you posted I'm in LATA 1, and SBC isn't even an option for ISP! Interesting... I should call them up to see what's going on.
I've had the advertised "384kbps-1.5Mbps downstream / 128kbps upstream" DSL from PacBell for about a year now. I used to have it with the PacBell ISP, and I've often got download speeds of ~250k/sec. In other words, even beyond 1.5Mbps. Well, a few months ago I've gotten a letter in the mail from PacBell that they no longer have a choice of ISPs, and the ONLY ISP available is through SBC, to which I was automatically changed. With this new change, my downstream is FIXED at 80k/sec, I guess 640kbps or whatever. Now, I wonder if this is illegal, because it is obviously CAPPED at 640kbps. And I am paying for "384kbps-1.5MBps depending on how good your line is" deal, so if it's capped, at least they should cap it at 1.5MBps. Long story short, SBC sucks.