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From: Zamboni
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:41

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"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
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> Smitty wrote:
> >
> > Dont get some Pentium 4 peice of crap.  Those things cost waaay to
much for
>
> Personally Im a Intel fan and stick by them. That aside, I did
> just get the chance to tweak a clients new 1.5 gig PIIII Dell Me
> system and wasn't impressed at all. Even after I took out all the
> "toys" it still didn/t seem worth the money. I'm quite perplexed
> by this I must say. I figured a 1.5 would fly-it didn't.
>
> It got me wondering if Dell is using a slow as heck mobo.
>
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.

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Zamboni

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