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Nah, the Athlon 1800+ is both faster and cheaper than the Pentium IV 1.5.
($56 vs $119 on Pricewatch today.)

The old Intel/AMD holy wars still rage, and the Dark Empire still depends on
the uninformed majority who get their information on PC performance from
cartoon characters on TV ads and pimply sales dorks at Wal-Mart.

There are good reasons for some people to buy P4 systems, but believing that
they are automatically faster and more stable than similarly spec'ed AMD
systems aren't among them. I count my dollars and know what level of
performance I want to obtain. I have been building my own AMD systems for
several years now, and have a hard time controlling the giggles when I hear
how much people spend for poorly configured brand-name boxes because they
saw an "Intel Inside" sticker and big numbers next to "mhz" and "megs" on
the sales brochure.

I noticed that at one point this thread was cross-posted to a Dell
newsgroup. I have a Dell 2.4 ghz Pentium 4 with a gig of ram and a SCSI
drive on my desk at work. It's a nice machine, but I paid less than half as
much for the parts to build my XP 1700+ overclocked to 2100+ with 512 megs
of PC133 (the mobo predates DDR and I'm upgrading one piece at a time,) and
a pair of cheap IDE drives striped in RAID 0. Guess which one loads Windows
faster, launches apps quicker, performs better in serious Photoshop work or
silly 3D shoot-em-ups? Guess which one locks up several times a day for no
apparent reason? (Hint: The answers to question 1 and question 2 are not the
same.)

Once again for the Intel Ayatollahs and Dell Divas who are about to put a
bounty on my head, I'm not saying the P4 isn't a fine processor or Dell
doesn't make good PCs. What I am saying is that people who disrespect AMD
based-systems out of ignorance are, well, ignorant. When they spread
misinformation, as happened here, they should expect someone to set them
straight. If they read with an open mind, they might even learn something.

(Skid relinquishes soapbox to make way for informed dissenters ;>)

"Diavire" <@.> wrote in message
news:3e2ea07b$0$2246$e4fe514c@dreader6.news.xs4all.nl...
> I shall not be swayed to bottom-posting by some newsgroup nazi >)
>
> You seem to have a problem reading and comprehending what's said.
>
> an Athlon 1800+ runs at 1.533Ghz
> a Pentium 4 1800mhz runs at 1.8Ghz (duh)
>
> however, that Athlon 1800+ performs equal or better than that Pentium 4
> 1.8Ghz
>
> so saying an Athlon 1800+ is the equivalent of a Pentium 4 1.5Ghz is
> incorrect, performence-wise
> price-wise that might be correct >)
>
>
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> "Jay "Boogieman" Edwards" <boog...@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > Anyways, no, it's around 1.5 GHz. 1800 is not the speed of the
processor.
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