Yes that would have been back when the Athlon and Durons were being strangled by SDRAM which caused the CPU many wait states while the memory caught up with demand which has since been fixed by the arrival of DDR SDRAM.
Also if ya go the P4 way then forget about any references that you were plannin' on usin' against the PIII as it's a totally different stripe of cat and most ppl panicked when they first came out they were gettin' temps as high or higher than ppl with Athlons were gettin'.
Now as ya are in the US ya'll get the best prices in the world but places like here where I just built this 2.4 P4 based on a GA-8PE667 Pro and GF4Ti4200 128MB VIVO with PC3200 RAM for the same money I'm about to build an almost exact duplicate of this but using an EP-8RDA+ and XP2600+ so where you have the luxury of better pricing some of us have to put up with a great price difference.
Now there's also about to be a few spanners thrown in the equation with the Barton cored 512MB L2 cached Athlon about to be launched followed about 8 weeks later by the new Athlon64's so maybe if ya can hold of a couple of months longer to see what developes with these you may just wind up bein' better future proofed.
Anyhow I've had my say so I'll let the ppl from your side of the world quote specs and prices to ya as they're in a better position to do knowin' your country better but at least you'er better informed now on what the situation is now plus what will soon be (also remember that AMD will be cuttin' CPU prices durin' these releases so at least a few weeks wait will pay in the end). :devil win
Oh and as I asked before if we knew more about the uses that you require out of it an even better system can be worked out to suit you.
do you require true V8 muscle or the top end power of a turbocharged screamin' 4? :?:
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Also if ya go the P4 way then forget about any references that you were plannin' on usin' against the PIII as it's a totally different stripe of cat and most ppl panicked when they first came out they were gettin' temps as high or higher than ppl with Athlons were gettin'.
Now as ya are in the US ya'll get the best prices in the world but places like here where I just built this 2.4 P4 based on a GA-8PE667 Pro and GF4Ti4200 128MB VIVO with PC3200 RAM for the same money I'm about to build an almost exact duplicate of this but using an EP-8RDA+ and XP2600+ so where you have the luxury of better pricing some of us have to put up with a great price difference.
Now there's also about to be a few spanners thrown in the equation with the Barton cored 512MB L2 cached Athlon about to be launched followed about 8 weeks later by the new Athlon64's so maybe if ya can hold of a couple of months longer to see what developes with these you may just wind up bein' better future proofed.
Anyhow I've had my say so I'll let the ppl from your side of the world quote specs and prices to ya as they're in a better position to do knowin' your country better but at least you'er better informed now on what the situation is now plus what will soon be (also remember that AMD will be cuttin' CPU prices durin' these releases so at least a few weeks wait will pay in the end). :devil win
Oh and as I asked before if we knew more about the uses that you require out of it an even better system can be worked out to suit you.
do you require true V8 muscle or the top end power of a turbocharged screamin' 4? :?:
<center>:cheers:</center>
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