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All my Ahtlon proc's have always outperformed Intel<BR>
by a large margin.<BR>
I was told that you needed an Intel for music on windows<BR>
but I have since found out this is not the case.<BR>
Stick with AMD they have to work harder and do.<BR>
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Cheers<BR>
Bob<BR>
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On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 17:44 +0000, Greg wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> When comparing, don't be biased by AMD's (deceptive, IMO) </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> "model numbers". I.e. if you compare a 2.2GHz intel and a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 2200+ AMD, you will be disappointed with the performance, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> since the AMD 2200+ is a 1.5GHz processor.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If I had an AMD cpu running at 2.2ghz and an Intel cpu at 2.2ghz I am fairly</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">certain the AMD would wipe the floor with the Intel.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ghz speed has less to do with real world performance than you seem to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">think.... Or are you telling me a celeron 340d (2.93ghz) will perform better</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">than an AMD64 3400+ (2.4ghz)?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I've never used AMD because of this practice. It seems Intel </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> is getting into this now with their part numbers, such as </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 520, 530, etc. The first digit being 5 implies they are </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> faster than AMD's models which begin with 2 or 3.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Intel has finally realised that it can no longer sell cpu's based solely on</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the ghz speed. Eg mobile processors running at much slower clock speed are</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">comparable in most applications to their faster desktop processors, with</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">much less heat and power drawn.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm not sure whether the last sentence was meant to be a joke or not??</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Centrino processors start with a 7 maybe they even faster :) (BTW the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fastest centrino according to the intel site is 2.1ghz)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Greg</FONT>
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