RE: AMD processors
General reply to all with an emphasis on the AMD fans,
I have twice gone non Intel with chips and, what a mistake both times. My latest disappointment involved a 366 K-6 equipped, purchased late last spring. Seemed like a grate value at the time. 1000 reboots later it has proven itself, time and again, to be inferior to a 233 PII. I run the same OS and software programs on both. They have the same RAM (sdram 64) and the same speed drives. The AMD system just gets plain slow after a days, and sometimes less, work. Never again. I have never had anyone I know, in the real world, give me any opinion in side by side performance, differing from mine. Maybe their new chips are and will be better. They might even approach Intel in terms of performance. But they will NEVER get in my pocket again.
Fyi, long Intel since '95, held AMD for a while but shortly after I bought that AMD equipped PC, I sold it.
Good luck to all.
Joey R |
