Re: Which Dell Dimension ?
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:44 -0500, Mike Smith wrote:
> I've always prefered the Optiplex line, but the SC420 (Poweredge
> Server) looks like it would work well as a desktop and it's only $249
> (256MB, 2.53Ghz Celeron and a 40GB SATA HD), no OS.
I've got to agree with Steven Jones.
Unless you do lots of (audio and video) ripping/encoding, where
the P4's 3+GHz just overpowers the Athlon and Athlon64, the AMD
chips (especially the A64, even in 32 bit mode) are faster than
the P4.
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