🚀 go-pugleaf

Take the K6 all the way....  (overclock it to 225 - they do it easy) Besides
the K6 outguns the PMMX.


Don Dew wrote in message ...
>I'm going to agree with the message by vpc/jlc as far as CPU choice.  I
>don't think it is fair to say that AMD is better than Intel or that Intel
is
>better than AMD.  I think it is a matter of what you need vs. what you are
>willing to spend.  AMD will give you a MUCH better deal as far as
>price/performance is concerned.  In fact, the AMD K6's (BTW - they stopped
>producing the 166mmx, so better start thinking 200) are faster in Windows
95
>than Intel's chips are.  If you are looking for a chip that has a powerful
>fpu (used the most in games and cad-type software) intel is the way to go -
>if you are willing to pay the price.  AMD's chips have a respectible fpu -
>better than Cyrix.  If you want my opinion - save your money - don't buy
and
>Intel.  If you are looking for game performace, buy a 3d accelerator (such
>as Orchid Righteous 3D ~$160) that will push 27+ frames per second in Quake
>with a K6-200.
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>As far as HX vs. VX - VX was basically a useless board.  It's support for
>SDRAM isn't all that impressive.  I'd chose between HX or TX.  TX makes
good
>use of the SDRAM and moves right along.
>
>Western Digital - go for it (if you chose HX).  They're a nice reliable
>drive.  On the other hand - if you buy a TX motherboard - you can make use
>of the Ultra DMA features (ie. 33mb / sec transfer rate compared to HX's 16
>mb/sec transfer rate).  If you do that - buy a Quantum drive that supports
>Ultra DMA.
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>Hope this helps out.
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