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[ale] Speed comparison
- Subject: [ale] Speed comparison
- From: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)
- Date: Wed Mar 31 21:24:15 2004
- In-reply-to: <00d601c4178f$65caacc0$53e04fd8@harclaptop>
- References: <1080785109.20913.123.camel@devel> <00d601c4178f$65caacc0$53e04fd8@harclaptop>
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 21:16, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:05 PM
> Subject: [ale] Speed comparison
>
>
> > I'm looking at buying a special system that will only take P4's. I would
> > prefer an AMD. How does a 2.4GHZ Celeron compare to an XP-2400?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
>
> It does not, the P4s, especially the celerons are dogs. I have a 1.8 GHz
> celeron and I swear my 800 MHz Athlon runs rings around it.
> I've been underwhelmed by the p4 since there were introduced. Any processor
> that is slower per clock tick than the previous generation has something
> dreadfully wrong. If you must do P4, get a real one, not the celeron.
>
Thanks. It looks as if I'll be skipping the system due to the Intel
tax. The XP must be better.
> Calvin