[Grimloq]

*cant contain himself*

you didnt take a deal where the monitor was only 20$ more expensive than the rest of the computer?!??!?! MONITORS ARE USUALLY 300!!!!! GAH!!!



anyway, the sooner we get back on topic, the better. although its hard when i dont have anything new to report

[Lightspeed]

You can get a relatively good CRT around $120 these days. It's really great that those ****ty TFT screens are so popular, it makes the CRT prices drop and drop

As for anything else, never should anyone buy an Intel Celeron processor

As for on-topic-ness.

Why don't you want to go with the original hi-polification? It looked, well, awesome, and not like that crap-o-tastic new one.

[Cobra]

Originally posted by Grimloq
*cant contain himself*

you didnt take a deal where the monitor was only 20$ more expensive than the rest of the computer?!??!?! MONITORS ARE USUALLY 300!!!!! GAH!!!

The monitor was actually pretty much the exact same one I have.

[Grimloq]

oh...

lighty: well, i cant please everyone. actually, i didnt like the first one *that* much. it didnt look smooth enough. someday the old one may come back as... somehting, but not now. actually, i HATED those blocks on hte engines they looked too much like space-fillers...

[Cobra]

You're right. They do, don't they?

In the future, don't post so many piccies on one page. It KILLS my 56k!

[Edit] Which is a higher grade of CPU's? P4, or IC? (Intel Celeron) And don't say P4 becaues you like it!

[Taristin]

Are you seriously asking if a p4 > celeron?  Wow.


Ok, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt... it goes like this:

AMD 64-bit > AMD Athlon XP > Intel P4 > AMD Duron > Intel Celeron

Greatest -> Worst

[Axem]

Dude, forget what everyone tells you. You need a 2600, an Atari 2600. There isn't nothing nowhere that will run as fast as that. Just think how fast Peasant's Quest could run on that thing!

Grim: Awesome uberfying. The Hecate always had that special place in my heart.

[Cobra]

An ATARI 2600!? Last I checked, Atari's don't even exist anymore.

Dude, we are soooo hijacking this **** thread.

[EDIT] **** you, Raa.

[Taristin]

You can be jealous all you want, but a Celeron is really a crappy processor. It's Intel's bargain basement chip. And Although I may have a slight bias towards AMD, I know that my AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (which operates at 2.08GHz) outperforms my parents Intel Pentium 4 (which operates at 2.24 Ghz)

[Cobra]

heh, I'm about 1700 MHz short of the P4 your parents have... and I'm 1 MHz behind you. 2.7 GHz is my speed, and I ain't lying. Dude, an IC is good enough for me right now, unless Mom decides to get me a real nice PC for Christmas. I already want one of those hot-rod laptops...

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Raa

AMD 64-bit >> Intel P4 > AMD Athlon XP >>>>>> AMD Duron & Intel Celeron

Greatest -> Worst

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Oh, and Cobra... Anyone who measures performance in MHz core speed is either a fool, or just totally uninformed.

[Turambar]

I have my P4 3.2 Ghz OC'd to 3.4 Ghz and i believe that it kicks a sufficient quantity of ass, thank you very much

[Grimloq]

uh, goober? can you please split this thread...? its getting out of hand

BTW, no updates on hecate yet. sry

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Lightspeed


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Oh, and Cobra... Anyone who measures performance in MHz core speed is either a fool, or just totally uninformed.

You're joking right?  A P4 is in no way better than an Athlon XP...  AMD outperforms intel all the time...

Plus there's the fact that the AMD's don't need the extra 12v connections, or that they don't need a fan and heatsink 3x the size of the chip...

[Grimloq]

*sigh* wheres a MOD when you need 'em?

[Carl]

64 bit is always faster than 32 bit, however it brings up compatibility problems.

[ChronoReverse]

Erm, no.  64 bits doesn't really mean anything in terms of speed of CPUs.  The Athlon64's are faster in 64bit mode though because of the extra registers though.  Certain tasks are also faster in 64bit mode since the data being moved around are in 64bit chunks.


AthlonXPs were better than P4s up until Northwood was released.  Then P4s were better than AthlonXPs.  When the Athlon64 was released, it was better than P4s even in standard x86 stuff.  Switch to 64bit mode and make those extra registers available and the Athlon64 blows completely past the P4.

[Taristin]

My Athlon XP 2800+ performs better than my parents P4 2.24Ghz Northwood chip. Granted, they don't have hyperthreading, but my chip is much quicker than theirs.

[Cobra]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Oh, and Cobra... Anyone who measures performance in MHz core speed is either a fool, or just totally uninformed.

Well, what do you want me to say? It's easy for me... Let's get back to the hecate thingy, shall we?

[Ulala]

Mmmm, need more pictures to drool over...