Poll: Your Favorite Computer Hardware of 2001

[jeffrey]

Well it hasn't been added, but my vote is going to go for the Yamaha 30+ drive

 

[AGodspeed]

I just added Yamaha CD Burners Jeff.

 

[johndoe52]

Athlon XP. What's there to consider?

 

[CHHASmatroxuser]

Western Digital WB1000JB (WD1000BB-SE), biggest leap in IDE performance in a long time.

 

[sanz]

USB PenDrive is probably the best investment I made in a long while.

For someone like me who use lots of different computer while on the move, its a must!

 

[Logix]

I probably would have voted for the Athlon XP if I actually owned one.

Since I don't, I have to go with the next best piece of hardware I have, my ASUS GeForce 3.

 

[AGodspeed]

<< I probably would have voted for the Athlon XP if I actually owned one.

Since I don't, I have to go with the next best piece of hardware I have, my ASUS GeForce 3. >>



Yeah, I went for the GeForce3 as well. Although you could have voted for the "AMD Athlon (XP)" option since the XP was in parenthesis.

 

[asiagian]

Athlon XP

 

[jacksco]

I gotta go w/ an Athlon XP / P4 tie. Give AMD credit for kicking Intel in the @ss when they wanted to rest on thier laurels, but give Intel some credit for waking up and turning it back on. 2002 will be interesting.

 

[majewski9]

AthlonXP got my vote! Second would be SIS 735, third would be Radeon 8500!

 

[junthin]

It's all about the Sis735 Motherboard.

Such a nice feature packed motherboard. Built tons of systems with it when it came out....

 

[Bushwicktrini]

<<

<< call me insane, but clock for clock, tutalin's compare with t-bird/XPs, unlike P4's.
Yes they do. I'd probably have one if the mobo options were better and if they were less expensive. Overall though, the Tualatins compete very well with XP/T-birds and of course the P4 >>


In January the Celeron 1.0A and 1.1A will be out. These are 100 MHz FSB, 256K cache .13u Tualatin CPUs. The 1.0A should be ~ $80, the 1.1A, ~ $100. The Tualatins should do 1.5 GHz easily. You can do a 1.0A @ 150 FSB or a 1.1 @ 137 FSB to get to 1.5 GHz. There are plenty of sub $100 815 B step boards out there. Nice setup for under $200. I may do the 1.0a @ 1.5 myself. >>



That and Intel just released a 1.4ghz Tualatin with 512k L2 cache. More PIII loving for me