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Article #287710Re: Need help with PC purchase
From: Alexander Fong
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 02:50
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 02:50
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('cuse me, but isn't that crossposting a tad too much?)
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Zamboni wrote:
> "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
> news:0IB_5.168$N84.260@newsfeed.slurp.net...
> > Smitty wrote:
<snip>
> No, it's just that the P4 sucks for the price. The P4 is not any faster
> than the P3 (at only 933) if running unoptimized software. The board
> costs more, the memory costs more, and the cpu costs more, for no real
> performance gain. Maybe in a year, we'll see, but for now it's kind of
> pointless.
And considering they're going to be phasing it out very soon as well in
favor of Itanium, it's questionable if you should even buy at
all. They're saying they'll provide an upgrade path, but if everyone
remembers the Pentium Overdrive chips for the older 486s, you'll think
twice about this one.
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