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Thread ID: 25915	2002-10-14 23:32:00	AMD Processors	BootyLicious (526)	Press F1

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89402	2002-10-15 08:35:00	hmmm hyperthreading..... I went to an IBM symposium a few months ago, about their new server solutions. the new Xeon (is that what it's called?) was one of the things they were pushing. the dude reckoned about 20% increase in performance due to the multithreading.... I don't know how long it will be til it hits the home market though, he certainly didn't indicate that it would be anytime soon. Go AMD. yeah. I personally like them, and of course the MHz war isn't all there is to it... higher MHz (GHz!) is not necessarily better. The difference between a 2.3 GHz and a GHz is probably not even a noticable difference if you pump as much ram and the best vid card you can get in with it. The real catch up game is for software developers... write an app that demands more than a 2 GHz processor? I don't think so.... Granted, some graphics apps do require beef, but for the home user who's rendering their own animated music vid or something, you're gonna leave it cranking overnight anyway, so what's the diff between 4 hours and 5 hours? Nothing.	loser (538)
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