Re: [Dev-C++] AMD ATHLON v PENTIUM 4

[Jason H. <jas...@bt...>]

At the moment Athlons are faster and cheaper than their equivalents in the P4 range, which is good
enough for me. Also, just a quick correction, the official line with the Athlon XP ????+ where the
???? is a number i.e. 2100, the number represents how fast the clock speed of an Athlon based on the
older Athlon CPU core would have to run to get the same performance.

Here's an article you may find interesting: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2107765,00.html

Personally I think the Athlons represent a bettor ethos in engineering, and that Intel is trying to
use big numbers i.e. clock speed and transistor count, to make the uneducated think it must be
better.

Jason.

PS: BTW there's a pretty obvious mistake in the article where it says 1.733MHz which I assume should
be 1.733GHz. My old spectrum processor (Z80) ran faster than 1.733MHz! :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Napoleon Ahiable" <nah...@so...>
To: <dev...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] AMD ATHLON v PENTIUM 4


Hi all,
I am about to get myself a new PC. I have always used Intel based PC's and
after all that I have heard about AMD ATHLON in terms of speed (ie faster
than its INTEL competitor) I am tempted to give it a try. I however want
know if this claim is true and if it has any drawbacks with respect to
programming

Cheers

Napleon.


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