a website that's kissing intel's rear end...

[qiu]

let's act AMD guys!

site that's kissing intel's butt...

www.rolotech.com

http://www.rolotech.com/reviews/CPU/Intel/Pentium4_reviews/P4_original/P4articlep1.htm

"Think of it this way - what would you rather have, a videocard that
can give you 160+ fps in Quake3 with all the high-quality details off?
Or another videocard that can deliver 45fps in Quake3 while in 32-bit
color and rendering 8-sample FSAA? The P4 processor is comparable to
that videocard."

"During regular usage, I noticed that a Pentium4 PC is less prone to
slow down ? I know this may seem weird, but when running WindowsXP
(a huge resource-hog) on our Pentium3 test-bed (with the Intel 440BX chipset),
the system would seem to lag when multi-tasking. For example, if you were
to play an MP3 file, watch TV on a second monitor (through the use of an
add-in card) and work on OfficeXP simultaneously, there?d be occasional
times when the audio stream would skip or the video feed would run out
of sync with the audio from the television broadcast."

This does not happen when running a Pentium4 ? the machine remains rock-stable,
especially when running a pure multi-tasking OS like Windows2000 or
WindowsXP."


He uses Windows XP beta... who the heck uses this as an all-the-time
os?

What do you think about this?

 

[jamesbond007]

Hmm...you won't catch me running WinXP anytime soon. Have you seen the interface!??? Looks like a 5 year old colored it. Can you say...G A Y! I totally agree, though that he's boasting the P4 chip there and dissing the P3. I know it's a BX board, but still, I could almost guarentee you that it would not perform that way. Who uses a beta OS to test hardware? Must be a newbie site.

 

[Swanny]

Yeah, I hate people like that who post reviews of stuff. If you can't play fair don't play the game. And by the way, you can change the GUI in XP to "classic" mode, can't you?

 

[jamesbond007]

I hope so! I have a friend who has a newer beta....I should try it out. I was basing that on the gay pictures that are available online. Man, those buttons are huge! MacOS X and Windows are changing seats. Each release makes each OS look and work like the other was.

 

[cornbread31]

who gives a sh1t? why does everything have to be intel or amd? if someone likes intel, good for them, but if someone likes amd, good for them too. either way people have opinions and are allowed to have them, so quit bitching about the amd-intel war. like i said, who gives a sh1t?

 

[jamesbond007]

Uh oh! Someone forgot to drink their coffee this morning. Tisk Tisk. I have both Intel and AMD, but I could care less what box I'm on. I'm not bias for or against one thing or another. That guy was just saying that P3s suck on a BX board. I don't have a BX right now, but I did. It was a nice little setup. He's just advertising that the P4 is better, in hopes that more people will buy a P4 box. I'm gonna wait until the prices come down a bit more, then I'll buy. RDRAM is mighty damn spendy right now, so it's simply out of the question.

 

[cnhoff]

Well, I agree with cornbread, right now I am using a TBird because it gives you the highest performance at the lowest price, but when P4's clock goes up and the prices fall, I can surely imagine my next system to be a P4.

I think those militant anti-Intel, anti-Microsoft guys should also be aware that those companys have pushed the technical development over the years and given us systems you can do the things you want on.

P.S. I am certainly NO Microsoft-, Intel-lover, but I only say you should be fair.

 

[Rand]

I love WinXP and I personally like the interface a lot.... but I have to agree, nobody in their right mind would benchmark under a beta OS and use results from a beta OS to dictate performance.

 

[cornbread31]

winxp = spyware, and microsoft control!!!!

 

[jot027]

isn't the human race meant to be beyond my chips better than yours type of arguement, after all at the end of the day you get the chip you want and more importantly you get the chip you pay for.
Its almost as childish as the playstation verses nintendo arguements.