Athlon Anyone?

[elite]

I was just wondering if anyone has seen or has an athlon system? I am planning on getting one pretty soon and just wanted to see what people had to say about them..

I know they are coming out with a thinner chip so it will be able to cool better/go faster, but I dont want to wait that long lol :)

I am planning on getting the 500Mhz version as the 550 is almost twice as much as the 500 :(..

Oh well I just wanted to see what anyone had to say, and if they know a good place to get either a system or the processor/motherboard..

[Jacob Stetser]

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I want one of these :) Check out the specs!

http://www.apple.com/powermac/


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[Charles Capps]

*drool*

[Dean B]

I'm off to set up a friends new Athlon 600 system tomorrow, I'll let you know what I think at the weekend.

Dean.
--- first app install = another FQ SETI user ---

[andreas]

attention+++best price+++highest power+++best offer in the universe+++

sell:
pc, intel p166 (overclocked to 187), 64mb ram, two hd (2,5 and 6,4.
this is a full power system!!
average seti@home: 28 hr 34 min 52.7 sec

you don´t need anything else for seti & co. contact me for detail price informations.

...but don´t ask me why i offer this system...please don´t...

greeting
a n d r e a s
:D :D :D

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[Jacob Stetser]

Speaking of Seti... the 500mhz version of the Power Mac G4 does it in a whopping 6 hours a block. And I don't think the client software is optimized for the G4's special capabilities. I know that SETI forced Microsoft to stop using a specially optimized version to keep things fair.

Oh, and get this. Apple can't export the G4 machines to several foreign countries because they are classified as "supercomputers" (more than 1 billion operations per second)by the U.S. government. -not a rumor, absolutely true- :)

Plus they finally put AGP in it, and Firewire, etc. The bottleneck in this computer is the user ;)

Jake
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[Justin]

Now I'm upset - I get 31 hours on a 233... how do you get 28 hours on a 166 (187, whatever)???????? LOL :)[nbsp][nbsp]I upgraded my RAM to 160 megs from 64 mid-packet, so maybe my next one will be a little faster...

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