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NEW!!! HOT!!! PENT4 2.53GHz Northwood 512K at NEWEGG!!!

That's peanuts. I remember a Pentium Pro 180mhz going for over $1200 just a few years ago... And i remember paying $300 for a AMD K6-2 300mhz!
 
Anyone who pays that much for a processor is insane! How much of a performance increase do you think you're going to be getting for that $680? 🙂
 
Haha, I remember $2500 for a Tandy, it was like a 4mh, a little more power than a COmmodore. This was for the computer (if you want to call it one), floppy and keyboard. Didn't even have a harddrive. 😉 But still, that is a lot of money for a cpu. I could buy 2 AMD 1700's with motherboards and 256mb of pc2100, a dvd player and about 4 movies.
 
...I remember a friend paying $349 for a Hercules Geforce2 GTS...then there`s all those Pokemon cards I bought for my son, ouch!
 
I remember new processors costing around a grand back when they first came out a couple years ago. $680 is cheaper than that. 😉
 
Originally posted by: sniperruff
it will also burn a BIG hole in your pocket =(
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Where's the Hot Deal here?

Any processor that cost this much and barely outruns an AthlonXP 2100+ at less than $250 isn't a hot deal IMO. If I were going to go Intel, I'd get one of those 1.8a P4 chips that overclock like mad for $150 give or take. If I was going to buy Intel that is. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Krakn3Dfx
Originally posted by: sniperruff
it will also burn a BIG hole in your pocket =(
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Where's the Hot Deal here?

Any processor that cost this much and barely outruns an AthlonXP 2100+ at less than $250 isn't a hot deal IMO. If I were going to go Intel, I'd get one of those 1.8a P4 chips that overclock like mad for $150 give or take. If I was going to buy Intel that is. 😉
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and where is your hotdeal? amdiot....😉 j/k
 
Haha, I remember $2500 for a Tandy, it was like a 4mh, a little more
Is it the TRS-80 with cassette tape backup? I still remember I learned programming with that and I need to back it up with a casette tape from a casette recorder. Now we are using CD-R to backup data now.
 
Where's the deal?! Just another overpriced Intel. Go with AMD. It is always a hot deal!
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I dunno the low end northwood p4 a chips give amd a run for the money and bang after overclock of course.
Also dont need to put on enourmous heatsinks and fans, the retail works just fine
for extreme overclocking.
🙂
 
I can agree with you (kindest) that Intel has much to offer. With the longer pipeline, the P4 is able to ramp up its clockspeed to levels that AMD wishes it could. But with lower instructions per clock cycle and three to one price difference does not justify only a marginal performance advantage (not on all measures). Even when adding the cost of a hsf (I believe that Intel processors require one too) the cost ratio (Intel vs. AMD) is pretty much the same as before. My point was that although the Intel CPU is one nice processor, it is by no means a hot deal...
 
Originally posted by: bigboxes
Where's the deal?! Just another overpriced Intel. Go with AMD. It is always a hot deal!
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You made an error in your bold placement.

Where's the deal?! Just another overpriced Intel. Go with AMD. It is always a hot deal! >or should I say heat!


 
Cool! This will be great for the quad Intel setup I want to build. I wonder if they'd give me a discount if I buy 4?

Sal
 
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