🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks for your opinion. Since I think you are totally wrong about virtually
everything, I'll let everybody know how it really works (IMNSHO).

I have 3 systems, Athlon 800Mhz, PIII 550Mhz, and a K6-2 400Mhz (Enough of
that.). I have been actually working in computer maintenance/network admin
at a site that has 1200 clients for several years now (No MSCE,  ABCD, or
anything else like that.).

Facts:
1) Dual processor systems are for systems that run multiple applications at
the same time, anything else is a waste of CPU processing power. (The
exception of course is high end servers with OS's that have real symetrical
processing, at the kernel level, like Solaris or IBM AIX.
2) Win NT is a joke of an OS compared to any Unix OS (Just ask a real
administrator.) unless your main goal is to have everything automated and
"who cares about performance".
3) Win NT is a joke of an OS compared to Win 98 for playing games (This may
be changing with Directx 8.0).
4) Hayes modem - Not,
 Netgear NIC - Not,
 Intel PIII CPU - Not,
 Creative DVD - Not !
5) USR modem - Yes,
 3Com NIC - Yes,
 AMD Athlon CPU, - Yes
 Pioneer DVD - Yes !

Maybe if you had purchased the right hardware instead of taking what came in
the pre-assembled "box", you would have been able to run Win98. Maybe if you
hadn't wasted your cash on the 2 Intel PIII 550's, you could have had a
totally stable Athlon 900Mhz for the same price. I understand that you
wasted your bucks on that SMP because you wanted to be the coolest guy
around, and now you have to use NT so it won't appear that your wasting your
SMP money, but just live with it. Just out of curiostity, how long did you
have the dual PIII system before you were told by a friend that Win98 does
not do SMP?

Last note: If the best you can achieve is "crash less", you slouldn't be
throwing your opinions around.

So long to another Wintel clone, Rick

"Mark Borton" <MarkBorton@DEEPSPACENINE.COM> wrote in message
news:974120262.409.0.nnrp-02.c1ed3851@news.demon.co.uk...
> I have 4 systems
>
> a Dual PIII500 thats NEEDS win2000 to utilize its SMP capabilities...and
> this machine outshines my mates PIII800 at all but the really high end 3d
> benchmarks where it equals them (Both off us have Geforce 2 ultras, both
> using Detonator 3 drivers, mine win2k his win98SE)
>
> A PII350, and 2 P200MMX machines
>
> All the systems run faster, boot faster, crash less and are generally
nicer
> to work with now than undier 95/98....I have had no problems, no blue
> screens , and havent turned 1 system off since they were installed (my
> running time is now approching 3 months i think...possibly longer...can`t
> remember when i bought 2k)
>
> As a long time user of winxx right back to V3, and as both an NT4 and
win2k
> MCSE i can say that Win2k is the platform of choice for games and serious
> work....i wish "High" street computer sellers would relise the potentiol
of
> SMP systems, you can get a cheaper system of comparable performnce now
using
> SMP than you can buy a Ghz system that does the same thing..
>
> 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
>
>