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"Mark Borton" <MarkBorton@DEEPSPACENINE.COM> wrote in message
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> "Richard Walker" <richard.3.walker@bt.com> wrote in message
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> > "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
>
I'm pretty sure you can't fit the socket-A chips in a sloket-370 designed
primarily for celerons.  The K-7s use a different number of pins in a
different configuration.  I only build 4 systems a day though, so I could be
wrong.

BTW I found K-6IIs to be pretty unstable in relation to their Intel
counterparts.  However I don't notice any difference between K7 & P3 in
terms of stabillity, but you do find a lot of amateur builders who tend to
go for AMD, as it's a little cheaper, and have problems (usually driver
issues).  These people will also install Win '95 (standard install) and
complain that the modem doesn't work.

David Harrison-Rand