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Re: Why (NOT) Win2k for gaming ?

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From: Mike Kay
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 00:00
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there is no socket 370AMD..... the socket A looks similar but has more
pins i believe, so you will have to get a different M/B..

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Mark Borton wrote:

> 
"Richard Walker" <richard.3.walker@bt.com> wrote in message
> news:8up48d$goo$1@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk...
> > "Mark Borton" <MarkBorton@DEEPSPACENINE.COM> wrote in message
> > news:974120262.409.0.nnrp-02.c1ed3851@news.demon.co.uk...
> > >
> > > Win2k , if your not buying shoddy clone OEM hardware is the best OS for
> > > gaming...Get yourself an Nvida Graphics card, Creative labs sound card
> and
> > > DVD decoder, a Hayes V90 "HARDWARE" modem, a couple of TRUE INTEL
> Processors
> > > , a Gigabyte Dual Processor Board and a Netgear network adapter if your
> > > networking (the TX310 is good) and youll never look back
> >
> > I agree 100%, except about the 'true Intel' bit.
> >
> > Why not AMD?  I have a Thunderbird 800 games machine running 2k,
> > and it's great!
> >
> >
> 
> Then your in the minority, everyone i know with AMD systems jumped straghit
> back to intel systems after nothing but agro....
> 
> However i am about to build a new gaming rig, and i was thinking of using
> (if they exisit) a Socket 370 AMD chip (Around 800mhz) on a Slocket..to see
> if it works
> 
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Richard (speaking personally).
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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From: Mike Kay <mpk@sanger.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Why (NOT) Win2k for gaming ?
Date: 2000/11/14
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