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Hi Mark:

Obviously we differ greatly regarding the hardware we like, but I do like
your well thoughtout responses.

The funny thing is, everybody gets different perspectives depending on what
they experience. I have an Athlon 800 on an Asus K7M that is solid as a
rock. I have a PIII 550 on an Asus P3V4X that is solid, but balks at some
games. The PII and PIII's at work are a pain in the ass. (I wish I had 1200
AMD machines to monitor for a long period too see if the failure rate is
equivelant.)

I'll admit I picky, I have dozens of games, and I expect them all to run
good (A lot of tweaking some times.). It could just as well be the fact that
I have an ATI Rage Fury with the PIII and a Diamond V770U with the Athlon
that makes the difference.

Either way, I do buy Intel or AMD, whichever I think is the best performer,
most stable, and greatest bang for the buck at the time (I've even had a
Cyrix!).

bye, Rick

"Mark Borton" <MarkBorton@DEEPSPACENINE.COM> wrote in message
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>
> "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,
>
> Hmm, let me see, what would i rather have, a motherboard with 2 PIII intel
> chips, stablilty and the use of A geforce 2 ultra with no agro, or a
> slightly faster chip with all the hassle of shitty no support motherboards
> and incompatibilities with the Geforce chipsset
>
> >  Creative DVD - Not !
>
> Creative make the best in PC hardware decoders ive ever seen, no loss of
> picture quality from interference, crisp, clear quality, and the Optical
DTS
> 5.1 output is a must
>
> > 5) USR modem - Yes,
>
> WHy? i didtched my USR for the Hayes, i get higher connection rates, less
> packet loss and far better all-round performance
>
> >  3Com NIC - Yes,
>
> Nope, Ill stick with netgear (Coz i get it free, Hubs and all)
>
> >  AMD Athlon CPU, - Yes
>
> Instablilty and low support from Motherboard manufactuers, YES
>
> >  Pioneer DVD - Yes !
>
> Thats what i have, I SAID CREATIVE DVD DECODER...(REGION FREE, TV OUTPU,
DTS
> 5.1 Optical OUTPUT)
>
> >
> > 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
>
>
>
>
>
> I Built all my systems myself, and I built the Dual system specifiacally
for
> NT4.0...win2k just let me move from playing games on the single cpu system
> to using a far suppirior SMP system
>
> Quake 3 Arena, on my Dual PIII timedemos 1 at a higher result than my
freind
> Atahlon @800....and he has had a shitty time getting the geforce 2 to run
> stabaly under win9x
>
> SMP rules, INTEL though not the fastest by the long way, are far better
than
> AMD in the long run..until I can get a stable AMD supported motherboard
(Or
> find a Socket 370 AMD chip that i can get into a Slocket and fit to my
> Gigabyte 6BXD I wont even be looking at another processor
manufacturor.....
>
> i have never had 1 crash (Except the Adaptec, where have my CDs gone now
> bug) under win2k
>
>