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I am getting a simiplar P4 with GeForce 4 for abt $800, a gaming machine. I want to play US. Army (THE coolest shooting game) why is yours so cheap?
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READ: AMD. AMD is flogging CPU's for whatever they can get these days. The tables have turned and the P4 is schooling the Athlon's. AMD is set to release a new CPU (Hammer) anytime soon. Watch your back, Intel![/QUOTE]Have you read the reviews on the new Athlon 2600 based on the T-bred core? It is pretty damn close to the new P4 2.8 ghz preformance marks.[/QUOTE]That must be EXTREMELY new! Still, a lot of apps are optimized for Intel instructions and pipelining these days. That was the big problem with the launch of the P4, nothing was optimized for the longer pipeline. IMHO, AMD needs to drop the "MHZ is unimportant rhetoric" and build for speed. The average consumer only looks at strictly clock speed,