From: AnimePhreak_at_aol.com
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 17:39:41 EDT
In a message dated 10/5/2002 5:37:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, AnimePhreak
writes:
>
> >> Yeah, Athlons suck up a lot more power than a Pentium.
>> They also generate a tremendous amount of heat. Their
>> only advantage is being cheaper. I haven't seen one
>> any faster than a 500 Mhz used successfully in a
>> laptop but in a desktop they require a very large
>> heatsink with a noisy fan and can heat up a small
>> room. They also tend to burn up frequently or fry the
>> motherboard if the fan stops. We got a lot of bad ones
>> in the shop where I worked during the summer but only
>> 1 bad pentium.
>>
>
> What do you mean only advantage is being cheaper? Athlons perform better
> than P4s. Because they have more efficient use of clock cycles. Still even
> though the extra clock cycles gain by overclocking and selling p4 chips to
> consumers gives the fastest p4 a hairline performance boost over the
> fastest athlon the price ratio between the fastest of the 2 is close to 2:1
> last time i checked (p4 is more expensive.) The only reason they used to be
> slow in noteooks a while back was because there were no notebook ddr
> chipsets available. Also he desktop cpus have about the same size
> heatsink/fan. At least the retail packages do. Mine however is a huge @$$
> fan. I always have a vacuum cleaner in my bedroom! LOL, anyway, get your
> facts staraight.
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