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| Lately AMD knocked Intel from the throne of chip making. With what? The AMD K-7 Athlon. It was shipped in the beggining of 2000 and was code-named K-7. Why would you want it? Simple. It has a bus speed of 200MHZ twice the amount of Pentium III. That's not all, its floating-point unit used for 3D calculations is 40 percent faster than the Pentium III. It also has 512K of Level two cache. Home Office magazine tested a system, AMD K-7 Athlon 600MHZ, 128MB of SDRAM, 18GB Western Digital hard disk, a 16MB Diamond Viper V770 AGP graphics accelerator, a Toshiba 6x DVD-ROM drive, and a LInksys HOmeLink phoneline network adapter. They used Symantec's Norton Utilities 4.0. It outran two 450 MHZ Pentium III systems, and runs 1/3 higher clock speed. The system benchmark score was nearly 40 percent higher, and its disk read and write scores were, respectively, 47 percent and 72 percent faster. Since then, Intel came with the Pentium III Coppermine, supposebly competitively inline with the Athlon, but still for the money and its high speeds, the AMD K-7 Athlon is the way to go. Since this year AMD has came out with several chips, first with the 500MHZ, 550MHZ, 600MHZ, 650MHZ, 700MHZ, 750MHZ, 800MHZ, 850MHZ, 900MHZ, 950MHZ 1000MHZ and now the 1200MHZ. This monster 1.2GHZ is a ripper. It just rips a game apart, its high speed makes application and booting acceptable. This will now be the main chip for Windows 2000 unless Intel comes with a different, but that will be seen. While the AMD K-6-2's line is still good, the question now is will you upgrade to the Athlon. With all the specs I have given you, their is no choice but a must. for all the Windows 2000 machines. Recent Update: Pentium 4 Now that the Pentium 4 has come out Intel now is certainly better. It has a 400MHZ Front Side Bus compared to AMD Thunderbird (Athlon) which only has 200MHZ FSB. This new chip has the new 64Bit Architecture which means that is unrealisticly fast and can handle 2 TegaBytes of RAM compared to the PIII and K-7 design of 32 bit which can handle only 2GB of RAM a huge difference. Intel is going to start with the 1400MHZ to 1500MHZ. Motherboards are going to be hard to find for it until the end of Christmas when Epox and Asus come out with their designs. Hopefully by next year we will be 2000-3000 or even 4000MHZ computers. Amazing! So what now, my suggestion is wait for the new Intel Pentium 4 been out for a while and wait for Intel to fix out the bugs. I am sure that the P4 is a great chip but as always there will always be defects. So if you were going to buy a new computer I would wait for the Pentium 4 which was out last week November 18th, 2000. AMD should come out with their competition very soon. But Intel is now the King again. www.amd.com www.intel.com |
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