I'm not into laptops, but I've got an Athlon running my pc. I love it, no problems, nice and quick. I give Athlon a big and Intel a big any day of the week.
if you want to slap together a fairly decent machine on the cheap, you can get a barton 2500+ for about $80. they're sufficiently fast for most projects you want to work on, and they have more 'snap' from the large cache.
Originally posted by spanno my XP2100 overheats I have to clock it down to 1500... my old XP 1 gig is ok though had that years and I had a AMD K6 before that was good too
Im all for athlon, been a AMD person for quite some time now. The cheap 2500 bartons are good for most people. But if you are a system tweaker and like overclocking you can still find some early week unlocked 2500+ barton chips for $130-$230 and push em to 3200+ with ease.
Originally posted by wiredguy
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agreed, just make sure you get a good fan AMD they tend to heat up more than intel!
they do get hot, but the newer xp chips run a little cooler than the previous socket a athlons. i'm running a 2400+ @ 2332, runs in the low to mid 40's with a copper zalman flower. it will run at a little over 2400, but occasionally gets a little unstable due to heat.
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