🚀 go-pugleaf

i can vouch for the durons  they rock  the tbirds too
but whats wrong with the k6-2's  everyone bashes them  but  they rock

MuuMiMan wrote:

> In a place known as alt.games.quake2, n...@spam.com (Pekka) was running
> around screaming something about "Re: Celeron vs. P3 for gaming?".
> Before the men in white coats arrived and took him away, he managed to
> say the following:
> >In article <8urj96$1f0$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, qwer...@my-deja.com says...
> >>
> >>I can't take it any more, the P166 is going to server duty and I'm
> >>building a new system.  My question is this:  I have been advised by
> >>several game-junky friends that it's not worth the extra $ to get a P3
> >>chip over a minimum 600mHz Celeron.  True of not?
>
> It's true that the Pentium 3 is "expensive". But it _is_ faster than
> the Celeron by 10-30%, depending on what you're doing with it. For
> gaming, the P3 is definitively better of the two. A P3- Coppermine 600
> is about as fast as a Celemine overclocked to 850 MHZ...
>
> >Cause I certainly have
> >>better things to do with the extra bucks.  I just want something that
> >>won't choke on wide-open maps with lots of models (ie- arena-type
> >>railgun only servers).  Thanks!!
> >>
> >Buy Duron. It's cheaper and way much faster than Celerons. Almost beats P3
> >too... ANd with the extra bucks u can buy nice video card. I'd recommend some
> >Geforce2 MX card, good performance and reasonable price.
>
> He's right, listen to him ;-)
> Whatever you do, go for an AMD chip anyway - they're good nowdays(the
> athlon is quite a leap from the K6 series of CPUs...), and offer by
> far the best bang for the buck. You can get an Athlon TB 800 quite a
> lot cheaper than a P3-800, and the Athlon is even a tad bit faster...
> The Duron outperforms the celeron by a lot (IIRC it was according to
> tests about 0-10% slower than an Athlon on the same clock speed), and
> is by far the best choice of the current processors on the market if
> you're looking for the "best performance with lowest
> investment"-processor...
>
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