🚀 go-pugleaf

Mark Booth (markb@oxim.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <344F6CE9.446B@demon.net>, Harry Broomhall <haeb@demon.net>
: writes

: AMD640 and VP2 (essentialy the same silicon) support 2Mb of cache and is
: not restricted to 64Mb cachability, as well as all of the TX's features.
: VP3 also supports AGP etc. Both should be faster than their Intel
: competitors.

The last run of HX boards can cache 512MB RAM, not just 64MB.

: I always wonder why there is so little anti-Intel bias, compared to the
: amount of anti-microsoft bias there is out there.

CPU and Motherboard manufacturers will never suffer bias as much as
software vendors, simply because most people don't care what the
hardware is, so long as the software running on top is fast, 
reliable, and easy to use. This is exactly why Microsoft gets mega
flames!!!

: If you are trapped into x86 architecture, but want to help stop the
: computer industries other monopoly, the least that you can do is buy a
: non Intel processor and motherboard with a non Intel chipset.

Don't think so - Why use a worse product? OK, so Intel chips aren't
superb, but neither is Cyrix, which runs super hot!!!! The Intel
does have a faster FPU too.

Adam.