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Old August 8th 04, 09:04 AM
George Hizinwak
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"Mike B" wrote in message
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My new athlon XP system just got fried..

I have some questions. I've heard the Athlon64 3200+ can beat a P4 3.2 EE
in
most tests. Is this true, and is there any reason why one would buy the P4
over the A64 other than bias?

Also, i'm a bit confused now.. I see A64 3200+ listed at pricewatch.. some
are listed as 1600mhz, and some listed at 2.2ghz. is the 1600mhz just
describing the fsb? and do they all run at 2.2ghz?

Lastly, i see there are some that have 1mb of cache as apposed to 512 for
around the same price. Is there a catch that i'm missing?

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Mike, your best bet would be to get an AMD XP 3500 939pin cpu, with a 939pin
based motherboard. This way you can get up to 4gigs of DDRAM without losing
speed. This combo uses Dual memory channel while the 754 design uses single
memory channel and thus when you use the 3rd DIMM slot the memory slows
down.