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To: Maxwell who wrote (44046)	12/26/1998 4:47:00 PM
From: GGL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572637

OT, To All: Does anybody in this thread can help me on some technical info between 350 MHz AMD-K6-2 Processor with 3Dnow and Intel Pentium II process 350 Mhz? Such as: 1. which processor runs cooler, generates less heat? 2. Do all softwares run on both types of processor? 3. Any known bugs on the AMD processor? 4. right now I still have the old Intel Pentium 90 processor and ready to upgrade to much faster processor; if I switch to AMD-K6-2 processor, any problem run the same softwares? I am now looking into 2 Compaq ,Presario, computer ---the model 5151 (Cost $1099.00, equipped with 350 Mhz AMD-K67-2 processor) and the model 5170 ( cost $1699.00 equipped with Intel Pentium II 350 Mhz processor). a big $600 different !!!. Any drawback or known bugs in the AMD-K6-2 processor. I never own one AMD processor, but due to the price diferent and cause me to switch to AMD ---- any suggestions or comments ??? Thank you all in advance for the help. Have a Happy New Year!!! gilbert --- long on AMD & Intel