Crashed the Intel P-4!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hamburgerpimp]

I am here in Santa Monica visiting my brother and decided to go into the Gateway store to mess around on their computers. They left me alone the whole time which was cool. I jumped on the new P4 machine and within about 3 minutes I get the blue screen error!! After rebooting it does it again and again. The guy says, "Yeah we have had a few problems with that one, you may want to look at our P3 machines" I just laughed and said I was browsing around, but thanks. Man, that made my day as a proud AMD owner!!

 

[Prodigy^]

BAH that proves nothing sure you didn't hit a bad p0rn site or something?

 

[Bling Bling]

Hamburgerpimp must be getting some fine meat.

 

[Dedpuhl]

well, I am content with my CuMine....

 

[sparkle]

Actually, I work at a Gateway country, and we had nothing but probs with those when we first got em. However, we just got a new "push" ( a software update gateway puts on demo machines) and it works fine. I still don't know who would buy one over the AMDs though. Fvckin stoopid "gotta get an intel" bastards

 

[apoppin]

If one considers price vs. performance, AMD is the clear winner for a new machine

TBird 1100 MHz - $249
TBird 1000 MHz - $198
TBird 950 MHz - $179
TBird 900 MHz - $165
TBird 850 MHz - $143
TBird 800 MHz - $129
Duron 800 MHz - $89
Duron 750 MHz - $76

Considering the 1.1 Ghz TBird and the 1.4Ghz P4 are similar in performance, it's a no brainer.

Considering the P4 is soon to be outmoded and a new MB needed for the next gen P4 out in a few months - why even consider Intel (now)?

 

[Muerto]

There's aboslutely no point in buying a new Intel machine right now. An Athlon is just as fast for way less money. Simple as that. And the P4 is a joke. I'm not surprised you were able to crash that one. I've heard a number of smiliar stories.



And for those of us on a budget the Duron comes to the rescue!

 

[jacobnero6918]

The P4 isnt as impressive as I thought it would be. The 400Mhz bus really runs at 100mhz and does 4 data transfers per clock cycle. I thought it was true 400mhz bus. The bandwith is good at 3.2 GBps but the new DDR has 2.1 GBps so it's pretty close.

If you own a thunderbird at 1Ghz or higher all you'll need is a new motherboard and memory I believe(not sure). And the price of the thunderbird has dropped agian.

 

[PCAddict]

Good call about the network push, sparkle. It most-likely crashed because WinMe wasn't installed correctly due to the bad push. We were advised not to push it.

Yes, the AMD systems are a better choice than anything Intel, IMHO.

 

[PistachioByAzul]

Yeah, Athlons are better CPUs in general, but some of us don't feel like dealing with the sh!tty motherboards that run them.

 

[ManSnake]

but some of us don't feel like dealing with the sh!tty motherboards that run them.

Specially those dumb Abit mobos:disgust:

 

[zippy]

<< Crashed the Intel P-4!!!!!!!!!!! >>


It's not that big of an accomplishment. Any intelligent person could do the same thing.

A p4 will crash even before your cat can get to the keyboard!

 

[Viper22]

Another Gateway Worker to add to our group eh PCAddict?

Yea the system more than likely hasnt been pushed with the software update yet....of course ours is dead and we are awaiting a replacment Display system....hehehe oh well such is life.

Viper22

 

[DesignDawg]

I've been running a KT7 RAID with Win2K and a Duron 700 OCed to 1 GHz for 4 months now without a SINGLE crash or lockup, EVER. Abit is making good stuff now.

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[SSP]

jacobnero6918, they are doing the same thing AMD did with the 200Mhz Bus. Except its QDR instead of DDR.

have to agree with most of what many of you said. IMO Athlon is better in Price/Performance.

 

[civiox]

Athlon + Asus board + win2k = no crashes ever.

Granted the VIA chipset may not be the best, but there are some damn good athlon boards out there

 

[Czar]

Athlon550@750 + MSI6861 + Win2000 = no crashes

 

[SpeedGod]

hmm, i guess thats why i jumped on the amd bandwagon.

 

[Paul]

Since we're speaking Athlons, what are some good mobos to get? Good chipsets?

 

[Abomination]

I'm a total quaker and I've been with AMD ever since the K6-2 series. Partly because the price/performance ratio but mostly because they always have an extreme strength in something. The athlon's is the raw floating point unit and the K6-2's was integer performance but I don't know why it's called a &quot;band wagon&quot; when everyone should've been getting them long ago.

 

[Abomination]

question about the title: Is there any other type of P-4? =P (other than intel)
hehe