🚀 go-pugleaf

Oh stop it!

Anybody knows that if you want a ~100% stable system you have to go for
Intel instead of athlons. It took 1 day to build&install my girlfriend's P3,
and she's had no crashes.. ever. In the meantime, I am STILL tweaking my
brother's Tbird 850 system (after 3 weeks) to stop it from crashing
randomly.

And there ARE more things in this life that utilizes SMP besides
server-based apps. 3D studio max is an excellent example of an app that
fully uses the potential of multiple CPU's. I can agree that SMP ain't for
games though.

"RMS" <rsavoie1@Kiss.my.grits.spammer.home.com> wrote in message
news:oyTP5.37386$4U6.1886082@news1.rdc2.on.home.com...
> 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
> >
> >
>
>