Mildly OT: AMD's latest chip(s)

[Simon]

If you're going to buy a chip from the last generation, don't buy P4,
the architecture isn't any less bad just because Intel's newer chips
have improved.  And by bad I mean low performance per clock, excessive
heat generation, and excessive power consumption.

On 12/1/06, Alex Beamish <talexb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I think this chip (or pair of chips) is a non-starter, based on the
> combination of a) power consumption, b) noise, c) price and d) ho-hum
> performance. From what I've seen lately, the best bang for a buck is a P4
> 2.4 with loads of RAM -- but that's probably only because I'm not convinced
> a 64 bit processor is any better than any of the tried-and-true 32 bit
> processors around.
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