A friends ABIT - RD-RAM - P4 1.6ghz was a hair faster than my P3-866
@900Mhz a few years back... he wasted $700 on that hunk of crap over
what I could have built for him.

Worse... the P4(core) Celerons... what a joke.

In PC stores - HP sells an AMD notebook at a price (was $700 last week
with rebates) and an intel version for $750.

both are simular (15" LCD / 40gb HD / 256mb DDR / CD-RW-DVDROM /
modem/ NIC.

- AMD 2500XP Mobile (Its quite fast with the AC - pretty much 100% the
same speed as a desktop model! I've run my own tests)

- Intel Celeron 2.6Ghz - which I imagine maybe even slower than the
desktop Celeron 2.6 - which is about the same as a 1000Mhz P3 CPU!

Wow... $50, get a slooooower computer.


On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:16:50 -0600, lyon_wonder
wrote:

Your CPU, ( a 1.5GHz p4 is barely faster than a 1GHz P3 in real-world
performance), is holding back your FX video card's performance. Also
your RAM, if it's only SDRAM and not RDRAM or DDR, would be a limiting
factor too.

I ran 3dmark 2001SE and the 7859 score seems low to me, but I am no techy. I
have a P41.5Mhz and 512 RAM and AGPx4, I pasted the full results of the test
at http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/3dmark-scores.htm

Any advice?


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