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To: Windsock who wrote (155221)	1/13/2002 6:27:19 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<font color=blue>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,73827,00.asp But our first system tests of machines using the new 2-GHz and 2.2-GHz Pentium 4 chips showed that an AMD Athlon XP 1900+ comparison system ran business applications faster and held its own on many multimedia apps. and The MicronPC, equipped with AMD's Athlon XP 1900+ chip (which runs at 1.6 GHz) and 256MB of DDR SDRAM, posted a score of 119 on our PC WorldBench 4 test suite--that's 9 points higher than the Dell Dimension 8200, with a Pentium 4 2.2 GHz chip and 256MB of RDRAM. Though the difference in speed isn't huge (the MicronPC system performed 8 percent faster), you may notice it.

To: Windsock who wrote (155221)	1/13/2002 7:39:18 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Windsock - Re: "what do you think is the biggest stability problem with the AthWipey, the failure to boot or the crashes after it does manage to boot? " Clearly, the failure to BOOT for an AThWIpey is a GIFT to the poor AMDawg AthWiper owner. It prevents him/her from losing valuable data if it does boot and crashes. Paul

To: Windsock who wrote (155221)	1/13/2002 9:09:36 PM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 186894

>Paul - what do you think is the biggest stability problem with the AthWipey, the failure to boot or the crashes after it does manage to boot? Have you ever owned an Athlon? I've had a few, and I haven't had any stability problems (at least after ditching Win98). This computer's still running an Athlon 650 (pretty old), but when I get around to it, I plan to throw in dual Athlons. The platform seems much less important to stability than the OS, but that's just my experience. -Z