> 
> My Duron 600 @ 950 runs great. :-)  While I am willing to smoke

how faster netbsd works on this? 
visual difference?
1% half% ?

i had problems in normal work to see a difference between pentium 200 and
celeron 500.

overclocking is a nonsense.

> my chip (only paid $60), the Althon Thunderbird chips perform very
> well at their rated clock speeds.  From the bang / buck perspective
> they are very good as well.
> 
> Just buy a decent motherboard like an ABIT KT7A-RAID, rather
> than some cheapo one, at least for your first "test" machine to
> prove out the AMD chips.
> 
> At the moment I am recommending Thunderbirds over P3s to people
> that ask me. :-)
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Space Case" <wormey@eskimo.com>
> To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Stupid Chip Q
> 
> 
> > On Mar 14, 10:32am, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > >I have been getting estimates on a new box. I have heard at
> > >least one shop say they only use InTel because they make
> > >better chips; and another shop says they use AMD because they
> > >are always having customers come in to replace their Intel
> > >chips because of Intels probs. SO, is INTEL BETTER or is
> > >AMD BETTER; or is this an intractable question?
> > 
> > I saw a web story today that said that Boeing just bought a 96-CPU
> > Linux cluster, using AMD Athlon chips.
> > 
> > I'd consider that a good endorsement...
> > 
> > ~Steve
> 
> 

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Microsoft is not an answer.
Microsoft is the question.
The answer is "NO".