| From: | Anthony W. Prime |
| Date: | 10 Mar 2001 at 20:45:43 |
| Subject: | Re: None Amiga Advice Please (ASAP) |
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Andrew Crowe waxed lyrical:
>Hi Everybody,
>
>> I`m becoming more and more impressed with AMD as a company. They
>> seem to supply good quality trouble free CPUs at keener prices than
>> Intel.
>They're faster, but less reliable then pentioms.
Hmm, I can`t comment beyond my own experience as far as reliability is
concerned (which has been good). But my point was more based around Intels
recent habit of producing designs with unexpected "features". I can`t
remember the exact number of recalls, but Intel certainly seem to have had
more than their fair share of late :/
>They get a lot hotter, and on some models if you even try to take the
>heat sink off you could crush the core and ruin it.
:(
>Also, tho they're faster then pentiums, a G4 will probably still out
>perform it at half the clock speed
Agreed, I was only making the comparison against other x86 chips.
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