"Derek Baker" wrote in message
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| George Hizinwak wrote:
| "Mike B" wrote in message
| news:wFkRc.227126$IQ4.181152@attbi_s02...
| My new athlon XP system just got fried..
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| 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.
|
| When you say slows down, what are you referring to: clock speed or
timings?
|

Latency slow downs associated with ECC registered RAM is what is likely
talking about.