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  From: Khai Dao <saigon_ca@yahoo.com>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:57:53 -0800 (PST)

RE: Buying Pemtium iii 933 or AMD 1.2 GHZ

Hello folks!,
My friend is not convinced! How do you convince him the
AMD is better than Intel?

--- Jeremy Ervine <omegasys@adam.com.au> wrote:
> HIGHLY recommend the AMD cpu. Even if you were going for
> an AMD 900Mhz
> Athlon, that would outperform a Pentium III 933 !
> 
> Origininally, the Intel 815 chipset had a much faster
> IDE controller than
> the VIA KTA-133 Chipset. When the Via KTA-2-133 was
> released, the gap
> between the Intel and Via controller was filled, leaving
> the AMD the far
> better choice as a processor.
> 
> This may not suit you of course, if you prefer to spend
> more money, for a
> lower performing product ;-)
> 
> cheers,
> jeremy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Khai Dao [mailto:saigon_ca@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2001 12:42 AM
> To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: Buying Pemtium iii 933 or AMD 1.2 GHZ
> 
> 
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I'm wondering anyone of you should recommend I should
> buy
> PENTIUM III-933 MHZ or AMD-1.2GHZ?
> Is there any BUG on the PETIUM? I had heard that the odd
> number of petium microprocessor is not good?
> Do you have any suggesstion?
> regards
> 
> Khai
> 
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