🚀 go-pugleaf

AM WEBER (weberam@aston.ac.uk) wrote:
: 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.

Sorry, by software vendors, I meant to say makers.

Adam