rec.autos.simulators

> >Oooo wee! Is there an agenda here? Are you perhaps a recent T-bird
> >buyer?

> >Regards, JD

> And what does that have to do with it? The guy is saying the P4 and
> T-bird perform the same when he is testing on a game that is capped at
> 36fps, which makes it useless as a comparison. My P3 800 performs the
> same in GPL as my T-bird 1.33c.
> --
> eFalcon keyboard chart in PDF format
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> > Maybee the problems William are referring to are not 100% due to the
fact
> of
> > the CPU. Maybee as high as 50% (just an example) is due to the fact that
> > some peripheral (SCSI card???) are not compatible with the CPU. The
> easiest
> > way would still be to get a Intel. Running around searching for
compatible
> > hardware is a drag. I know, I had a Cyrix once.

> > It sounds like the AMD have more bang for the buck. It sounds like Intel
> is
> > more reliable for a professional user. Maybee I'll keep this 'puter and
> buy
> > a new toy (*** PC).

> Now don't start believing this compatibility FUD. The processor has got
> nothing to do with being compatible with peripherals, they are mutually
> exclusive. I've seen this FUD thrown around so often that it has to be
> combatted. People can't just go around thinking that all of their problems
> are as a result of the processor, just because they got no better ideas.

> For every William Silvey, there are several more examples of people not
> having problems. Whatever William ran into, it's because of his own
> combination, not anything else. The only way this can be a trend is if
there
> are a lot of people who see the same problem. A William Silvey is not a
> trend, by himself.

> For example, I have a brand new Dell Latitude laptop right now that is
> running Win2K, with a 700Mhz P3. It is having a problem with its powered
> undocking mechanism, i.e. it won't accept the command to undock while it
is
> still powered up, despite the fact that this is one of its included
> features. Dell's very helpful technical support (...not!) first suggested
> that we upgrade to the latest W2K service pack 2. We did, and it helped in
> one laptop out of six, unfortunately not mine. So we called Dell back,
their
> new suggestion is to reformat the hard drive and reinstall from scratch!
So
> this is our signal that we should now investigate this ourselves and not
to
> bother Dell's tech support. I'd say five out of six laptops is a trend,
yet
> what is the reason that one out of six does work?

> Prior to this I had a Compaq Armada notebook with a P2-333Mhz processor.
It
> had little or no issues. The Dell is replacing the Compaq.

> You will note that all of these examples are referring to "GenuineIntel"
> processors, right? Well, welcome to the world of x86, where it's a ***
> shoot how good your system is going to be. You don't throw your hands up
in
> the air and blame this on the processor, you go investigate, because you
are
> on your own when you got a PC.

>         Yousuf Khan

>>The reason AMD ever 'got any' was because they sucked, for years, and
years.

>You're an idiot. Intel sucks now. Get it?

>Once again, read the artical. It's fact, not inuendo. You're the one
>opening your mouth without knowing the facts. Stupid or what?

>Did you also read the articel link to the problems with Q3A on a P4?

>    Yousuf Khan

>>cooooooling.

>>No overclocking!

>>I know. Lets build a 3W nuclear reactor.  That way, we won't have to
>>worry about cooling it as much, when we would if we built our 300MW
>>nuclear reactor.

> Are we talking about nuclear reactors here or poorly designed cpu's?

>        Yousuf Khan

>The core on the T-Bird 1.33c is rated to 95c, the P4 1.5ghz is rated
>to 70c. Make your own conclusion.

>>Oooo wee! Is there an agenda here? Are you perhaps a recent T-bird
>>buyer?

>>Regards, JD

>And what does that have to do with it?