🚀 go-pugleaf

I agree... I have used AMD processors ever since my very first upgrade.....
For the performance, they are great... for the price, they are the best!   I
just got a boxed K6-233 with 2-32 meg DIMMs and it is smoking!


Greg Phillips (remove the * to reply) wrote in message
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>Just to add my two cents worth, I have a boxed  AMD K-6 233mhz on a
>Shuttle HOT-571 mb with 1 10ns 32mb SDRAM DIMM.  Last night I benched
>it using Wintune 98 and it scored 611mips and 256 mflops.  Yes SDRAM
>does make a difference as my memory scores reflected vs simms or edo
>ram.  I abandoned intel several years ago after the p24t fiasco.  If
>you don't remember intel released a spec for it to the mb manufactures
>and then changed the specs later on rendering the earlier overdrive
>sockets useless and forcing folks to buy new boards in order to use
>the intel overdrive cpu's.  I've been on the AMD bandwagon ever since.
>AMD has intel running scared right now.  Intel knows that they're
>about to release the K-6 3d and the K-6 +3d cpu's and they also know
>that they're very very fast.  I think that intel's reign as chip king
>is over and thats good for the end user as prices will be more
>competitive.