lithium726
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roffles.Motley said:
K6's only went to 233mhz. k6-2's and 3's went to 550. the original K7 athlon only went to 550mhz, the "k-75" went to 1ghz. you had a thunderbird Athlon bro
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K6's only went to 233mhz. k6-2's and 3's went to 550. the original K7 athlon only went to 550mhz, the "k-75" went to 1ghz. you had a thunderbird Athlon bro
asciibaron
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i have owned a few computers, starting with an Atari 400, then C64, 286, various Mac's, and even a Sparc 20.
my first x86 system was an Intel 286-8MHz with a whooping 16MB of RAM. this was in 1990. in 1992 i put together my first home built system using an AMD 386-16MHz - even had the 387 FPU! in 1996 i switched to an Intel 486-66Mhz and then a DX4 100MHz in 1997. from there i went to an Intel Celeron 333MHz in 1999. my wife and i shared the Celeron and that sucked so i picked up a friend's Intel PIII 450MHz CPU and a salvaged mobo from work and let her keep the 333MHz Celery.
in 2003 i decided to upgrade and went for an AMD Althon XP 2800 Barton. I use Cubase and the latest version at that time suggested using the AMD processors for better stability. the PIII 450 became a web/printer server.
last month i upgraded to an Athlon 64 2800 and upgraded my wife from the Celeron 333 to an Sempr()n 64 2500 OC'd to 2.1GHz. my wife's old system was upgraded with a PIII 500Mhz and is now running Slackware 10.2 as a server/C+ compiler (accessed via SSH).
the only Intel i purchased was the Celeron 333MHz - all the other's were obtained from other's who upgraded or were taken from junked machines (i worked for a few computer service companies). so i have voted with my wallet - AMD all the way for my x86 architecture based systems.
-da baron
my first x86 system was an Intel 286-8MHz with a whooping 16MB of RAM. this was in 1990. in 1992 i put together my first home built system using an AMD 386-16MHz - even had the 387 FPU! in 1996 i switched to an Intel 486-66Mhz and then a DX4 100MHz in 1997. from there i went to an Intel Celeron 333MHz in 1999. my wife and i shared the Celeron and that sucked so i picked up a friend's Intel PIII 450MHz CPU and a salvaged mobo from work and let her keep the 333MHz Celery.
in 2003 i decided to upgrade and went for an AMD Althon XP 2800 Barton. I use Cubase and the latest version at that time suggested using the AMD processors for better stability. the PIII 450 became a web/printer server.
last month i upgraded to an Athlon 64 2800 and upgraded my wife from the Celeron 333 to an Sempr()n 64 2500 OC'd to 2.1GHz. my wife's old system was upgraded with a PIII 500Mhz and is now running Slackware 10.2 as a server/C+ compiler (accessed via SSH).
the only Intel i purchased was the Celeron 333MHz - all the other's were obtained from other's who upgraded or were taken from junked machines (i worked for a few computer service companies). so i have voted with my wallet - AMD all the way for my x86 architecture based systems.
-da baron
kirbyrj
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Voting with your wallet? What ever happened to the good old days when AMD processors were less than $100 for good ones .
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Limp Gawd
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I didn't vote, because there was no "whoever makes the best chip in my price range" option. Although, I have been using AMD for quite some time now. They have the edge in gaming so that's where my allegiance will lie.