[geeks] Re: Help me convert a computer illiterate to an iMac!

[Dan Sikorski]

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 23:13, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> I don't know. In the AMD world the single proc. chipsets advance so much 
> faster (in technology useful for gaming) than the SMP chipsets. They 
> have 8x AGP, faster memory speeds, etc. Then you also have the (minor) 
> decrease in speed due to ECC (pretty much required for SMP Athlon's). 
> And the AthlonXP's clock speeds are also much higher than the MP's.

But the XP's require only a very minor modification to allow them to run
in a SMP configuration.  I'd know, I'm sitting at a dual athlon XP 2000+
machine.

	-Dan Sikorski