new pc

MiCr0

right the day has come to get my new pc....and what have gateway gone and done...yes they changed the prices...again. i was all set to get a
p3-700/192mb/30gb/32mbvid/19"mon/56k/dvd/ for £1692
no cd-rw though


BUT
now i can get an
athlon 700/192/20/32/19 with a cdrw and dvd for £1738

any suggestions/advice?

MiCr0

[This message has been edited by MiCr0 (edited 04-05-2000).]

Kali

192mb memory? 128 + 64.. strange.

without a doubt the p3-700 system.
40 quid less and will outperform the other one.
spend the extra 40 on a proper modem though.
otherwise you _wont_ be playing online.
gateway modem is horrendous for gaming.

MiCr0

i've got a good motorola modem
i get about a 100ping to vishnu most of the time and a 4-5k/sec d/l rate

Draco

I just got my Gateway Athlon 650 and I'm much impressed. It flys along. The PIII may be £40 less for a slightly better chip, but getting the CD-RW and easily crackable DVD is worth it.

Draco

Shiminay

I always thought Athlons pi$$ed on PIII's in the benchmarks?

BTW, sweet deals there MiCr0

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Gerry

Not in games Kharn. When I got my p3 600e, myself and sutty decided to do a little test against his athlon 750. So I clocked it at 750. 3dmark was about 5% higher. Quake 3 timedemo001 was 175 fps on the p3, about 126 on the athlon. Clocking the p3 to 900, I got 198 fps at fairly low detail and 130fps at 800 * 600 high quality.

MiCr0

gerry did u have the same graphics cards and ram in the two?

WhiteWashMan

afaik another month and they will have the athlone 1ghz proccessor for sale
why would you want that kinda power i have no idea, but there you go
spose you can run glquake at 5million fps, but then your eyes would probably just bleed

MiCr0

wwman they got the athlon1000 for sale atm

Kali

for your purposes it wouldnt make much difference which chip to go for, they're both damn fast, and you wouldnt notice the difference in regular use (quake at normal or high quality would be more reliant on graphics card) either way you'd be happy..

so the cdrw (which i hadnt noticed earlier) clinchs it for the athlon system.

even though i wouldnt get it myself

MiCr0

what would you get then kali?
btw its a ge-force grap-card

Gerry

Micro It was actually suttys geforce card in the machine, and 128 megs of pc100 ram. I was testing it to see if it would be worth getting a geforce and it is so I am getting one on friday

MiCr0

both of the pc's i'm going to get come with a 32mb sdr ge-force

MiCr0

right
the pc will be ordered in 5 hours.
i'll take a vote
at the moment i'm inclined towards the athlon system

Athlon 1
Pentium 2

Gerry

for that amount of money, you would think they would give you a ddr geforce. That will be the limiting factor when playing games. I would also get the p3, it has a bigger hard drive and its faster. But then again I wouldnt buy anything from gateway

Kali

i prefer intel.
thats just me though.
like i said for the majority of applications there is no discernable difference.

the smaller hd space on the athlon platform wont make too much difference either not when you have the burner there.

anyway.. just ****in buy one ffs.
toss a coin

Catch_22

heads alhlon, tails pIII or sumthin,
but dont waste time cause u badly need a new machine man :P
u still got the p75 dont ya like ?? :0

cya
c22

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