Re: Pentium III or K7 Athlon?

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From: Mark Tyndall
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:00

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Tom Bird wrote:
> 
> Athlon is the dog's bollocks from what I have seen.  You will need to
> buy premium priced 133MHz RAM and as with any spanking new technology,
> the problems haven't surfaced yet.
> 
Untrue.  PC100 SDRAM will work just fine, and AMD have apparently done a
sterling job with the Irongate chipset - no incompatibility probs with any AGP
cards (see Tomshardware, for example).  It is the db, though.  I want I want I
want (etc.)

Mark..

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