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Offline Death_Merchant

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Re: Processors??
« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2004, 05:07:02 pm »
Buy
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Mac!

You also won't be seeing any blue screens, getting viruses, or having DLL conflicts.

New iMacs are due out in Sept. No one knows diddly-squat about them yet.
But the current line of eMacs and iMacs should drop in price.

If you are looking for a gaming box: Never-mind ;)
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2004, 05:16:31 pm »
Have a Mac, three in fact, newest is a G3 iMac- 400 mHz, and it runs as fast as my 1.2 GHz Compaq.  The next mac I buy will be an iBook, which will be what I do most of my computying on.  Just the same, though, i have to go back to the PC every once in a while because the school I go to is not mac friendly at all.
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2004, 05:28:03 pm »
G3 iMac- 400 mHz???
You running MacOS 9? I'd think OS X would be a dog on that.

My home 867MHz G4 is starting to feel pokey....
but then again, I crunch graphics and video.

PC for school, eh? Yup, sucks to be forced into a platform for school or work.
What do you do that requires a PC? PC-only school app?

My solution was to get a cheap-ass PC (just enough oomph for SFC), and sink the rest of my cash into a better Mac.
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2004, 06:47:43 pm »
Actually, i'm runnin OS X 10.3.3 on it very nicely.  I have OS 9.2.1 on a seperate partition, but i rarely boot up using it these days- classic handles most everyting I want.  ne of the requirements for my degree that I'm working on (accounting) is a computer class that i'm taking right now which requires a PC- it will not accept anything else.  The school itself has one mac lab, but all of the professors require work done on PC's. From what I can tell, further courses will require a PC as well, so I'm kinda stuck.  The one advantage: SFC os on the PC.
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #24 on: July 09, 2004, 07:15:32 pm »
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AMD HAS CONFIRMED that it will not include support for PCI Express for future Athlon XP processors.


From Chris SI's site... thats why I'm going intel... PCI Xpress.
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2004, 10:11:00 pm »
Thats a different story alltogether. It'd be like Intel going back to the P3 and making them compatible with PCI express. So yeah you're right AMD's wont work with PCI express. Then again, if you're going to buy an XP mobo right now, its not going have PCI express anyways.  If you're going to wait, you're going to get a 64 chip, with a PCI xpress mobo. I fail to see the problem here...
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2004, 11:29:02 pm »
Quote from: Stephen on July 08, 2004, 02:11:43 pm
I pulled this From Chris SI's site.

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AMD HAS CONFIRMED that it will not include support for PCI Express for future Athlon XP processors.

One thing to keep in mind is that AMD only produces chipsets to "seed the market".  It has been some time since AMD made a chipset for the Athlon XP or MP.  They are not in the chipset business.

When the original Athlon came out AMD made a chipset for it so companies could make motherboards.  Once VIA, nVidia and others were in the market AMD backed out, as planned.  Right now they make chipsets for the Athlon 64 and Opteron.  Once 3rd party chipsets become prevalent they will phase out the AMD chipsets. 

As to support for PCI Express with the Athlon XP, MP or Duron.  Why would they bother?   These chips are being phased out in favour of the Athlon 64, Opteron and Sempron.   Why design a new chipset and motherboard series for an end of line chip?

Intel on the otherhand has a major business making  chipsets and licensing others to do so AND the Pentium 4 is the current chip.  It's replacement is not yet on the market or even clearly defined to the public.  So Intel must support PCI-Express on the Pentium 4, Xeon and Celeron lines.
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #27 on: July 10, 2004, 12:12:56 pm »
Well it kinda sorta is.  Intel has said that the "Extrem Editions" are actually 64 bit chips in disguise, and they can now 'activate' that feature. Beyond that, I have no idea what it means.
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #28 on: July 10, 2004, 06:37:04 pm »
Quote from: Iceman on July 10, 2004, 12:12:56 pm
Well it kinda sorta is.  Intel has said that the "Extrem Editions" are actually 64 bit chips in disguise, and they can now 'activate' that feature. Beyond that, I have no idea what it means.

Intel are waffling. Either it's 64 bit or it isn't. They just don't want to admit that AMD are far ahead of them.
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2004, 12:22:23 am »
Basically. 
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #30 on: July 11, 2004, 08:55:59 pm »
Quote from: Iceman on July 10, 2004, 12:12:56 pm
Well it kinda sorta is.  Intel has said that the "Extrem Editions" are actually 64 bit chips in disguise, and they can now 'activate' that feature. Beyond that, I have no idea what it means.

Bull.  EEs are just northwoods with twice the cache.
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Re: Processors??
« Reply #31 on: July 11, 2004, 09:08:18 pm »
Well, thats what they told people. Dont shoot the messanger.
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