David Fontaine wrote:

> "Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
>
> > Anyone know the difference between a:
> >
> > AMD Athlon
> > Pentium III
> > Intel Celeron
> >
> > for similar speed?
>
> You have 'em in order. Any of the new AMDs should give POV a significant
> boost over Intel for equivalent MHz, and those all come in the same
> range (Athlon and PIII up to around 1.2GHz I believe). The Pentium IV
> allows clock speeds much higher but actually does less per cycle IIRC,
> so in the end a high-end PIV is probably slower rendering than a
> high-end PIII. My advice, go for AMD. (And for equivalent MHz the mac
> chips waste any of them, but they don't come nearly as fast in MHz; I'm
> pretty sure the fastest PC chips still beat the fastest mac chips. But
> macs don't count. ;)
>
> --
> David Fontaine

Motorola makes the PowerPC G4 733mhz processor.  Why are you calling it a
mac chip Apple has little to do with its development from my understanding.

Anyway I recommend the AMD processor despite the local economy's near
complete dependence on Intel.  Intel has just made so many mistakes in the
last year.  They recalled a million motherboards.  I had one of them, and I
can't tell you how many times I thought I figured out why my computer was
behaving so badly.  Oh the frustration.  Well lets hope their 64 bit
processors will be better.

Dan Johnson

Post a reply to this message