Alex, I highly recommend the AMD K7 chips. IF your short on cash get an ASUS A7V or an ABIT KT7A, these boards are very nice. I am using an ABIT KT7A-RAID for Windows, but am Using an ASUS A7V here at work with Debian on it. My Duron 800 at home kicks the crap out of any P3 on the market and it only has 128K of Cache. Stay away from Intel go AMD. I just got done building my friend a P3 933 since that is the only processor Dell offers, personally I would have gone with AMD. There are only a few programs out there that are optimized for the Intel P3, but everything I have runs better and faster on an AMD Durn 800.
Thanks, Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Isacson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 12:46 PM Subject: Pentium 4 > I'm about to buy a new computer. I have been offered a really good deal on a P4 > system. > But since the architecture is so different from previous pentiums I am a little > hecitant. > > Will I have to recompile all major components in order to get decent speed with > the p4? > Will there be special p4-debs? > > Whats the best thing to do? Buy an AMD-CPU instead? > I just thought I'd get an opinion from you guys before I spend all my money. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >