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Here is for all of you AMD lowers out there:

I am a very big AMD fan myself, but I'm currently
using Celeron 300A and A-bit BH6.

Why?

Its pretty simple, Celeron 300A is actually produced by same process as
all other INTEL's processors (including PII450). Intels process is so good
that virtually all of the CPU's produced work at 450MHz or above.

Of course, Intel doesn't want to sell Celerons as 450MHz units since this
would
make PII sales drop to 0.

BUT you can overclock your Celeron 300A to 450MHz, just like hundreds (if
not hundreds of thousands) are doing just now.
If you overclock Celeron 300A to 450MHZ, you get a cpu that's even better
than
Pentium II 450 in many cases since its cache runs at full speed (PII runs
cache
at 1/2 of the CPU core speed).
And it has a very strong FPU, much better than AMD.
Since Celeron 300A is much cheaper than AMD's fastest processors, and AMD
is still far from 450MHz I cannot recommend it to anyone anymore.
Even 400MHz K6-2 with 3DNow! sucks dick against Celeron at 450MHz.
In price and in performance. And in Quake2.

You can even make Celerons work in Dual CPU boards, instructions are on the
net.
Try to do that with AMD.

This is all very sad and I wish it was different, but AMD is not looking
very good
at this moment. Its loosing low-end market due to Celeron rapidly. It never
had
much of the high-end market anyway.
Unless they produce K7 very fast, they could go back to losses.
And AMD allways fails to provide, it will probably be delayed.

Sorry, guys, that's the truth about AMD.

Still, thanks to AMD Intel had to come out with cheap alternative, Celeron.
Not to mention price drops.

AMD WAS a better alternative until Celeron A came out (with on-die cache).
I even ordered a couple for the company I work for (I had to fight against
our
hardware supplier) 6 months ago. I would only consider Inter now.

Bye
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Marko Seruga

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PS: I used to work for a PC service as a student for some time and
I monitor all the happening on the market very closely. I tried
overclocking 486, Pentiums, water cooling CPUs and all sorts of
things. So I think you can trust me.

Tujunga wrote in message <77j9ts$brk$1@news.megsinet.net>...
>I am rather a newbie, but I chose a AMD K6 CPU for my custom built PC
>because I have heard so much good about it.  I even think I heard that AMD
>may soon outpace PII, but I don't know if this is just talk or not.  I have
>an AMD K6-2 333, on an Asus P5A motherboard, 64 megs PC-100 RAM, ATX case,
>(and a bunch of other stuff that is over my head!)  So far, it runs Win98
>great.  I never even worried about how Win98 would run with an AMD CPU,
>because more and more commercial ("Big Name") computer manufacturers are
>offering it with their new Win98 systems.  It is so much cheaper, and from
>what I can tell, and an excellent CPU.   I suspect that anyone who tried to
>dissuade you from AMD has something else up their sleeve, or are
>misinformed.  (When I was pricing out PCs, I went to one shop, and told the
>earnest young man my computer preferences.  When I mentioned that I wanted
>AMD, not Intel, his face lit up, and he gave me a "thumbs up".  Obviously
he
>felt the same way I did about it!)
>
>>> > >>Hi I am about to put together a new computer for myself, and this
>time I
>>> > >>have decided on an AMD K62 (either 300 or 350 - not too sure yet)
and
>a
>>> > >>computer dealer has told me that the K62 does not like windows 98
and
>>> > plays
>>> > >>up.
>>> > >>
>>> > >>Is this true?