Which Would you Buy?

Ryo Hazuki

A pentium 4 1.7ghz
Or.....
An Athlon XP 1800+

I would lean towards the Athlon

Stephen

I bought an XP1800+ (and a motherboard and stuff) a couple of weeks ago, I think its great

marauder

what prices are you looking at?

sceptre

All things being equal (as in price), the Athlon

PPC

Originally posted by sceptre
All things being equal (as in price), the Athlon

Agreed.

Cue Gerry...

JustHalf

I'd go for the Athlon myself, as that's a Willamette core P4, and won't be up for much overclocking.

If you want to go P4, go for a Northwood. I for one have a 2GHz Northwood that runs at 2.76GHz without pushing.

Gerry

Cue me.

Since that is a williamette p4, I'd go for the athlon, as it will be faster. I think you may be talking about full machines here, not sure though.

What did you think I was going to say PPC?

That I'd recommend the much slower williamette p4?
It just shows that you have never bothered to read many of my posts very thoroughly.

spongebob

....that may make it worth going for the Northwood core P4 and 845g chipset combo soon.

dunno if AMD have anything majorly groovy in the near pipeline.

check tomshardware.com , i usually do b4 big buys.

M

PPC

Originally posted by Gerry
Cue me.

Since that is a williamette p4, I'd go for the athlon, as it will be faster. I think you may be talking about full machines here, not sure though.

What did you think I was going to say PPC?

That I'd recommend the much slower williamette p4?
It just shows that you have never bothered to read many of my posts very thoroughly.

I dunno.
Just making an entrance for ya

JustHalf

i850E ain't shabby you know.