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My friend is pretty angry with his old 120 Mhz machine so he decided to put it into storage. I was wondering out of all these machines i will list, which one is the best value? They are all from a little computer store a couple blocks away. PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE CANADIAN PRICES...

IBM 300GL DESKTOP
INTEL PENTIUM II 350MHZ CPU
128MB SDRAM
4.3GB HARD DRIVE
CD-ROM DRIVE
3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE
10/100 ETHERNET CARD
SB 16 ISA SOUND CARD
INTEGRATED 2MB S3 TRIO VIDEO
2 REAR USB PORTS
$129.00

IBM APTIVA E-SERIES DESKTOP
AMD K6-2 500MHZ CPU
192MB SDRAM (8MB TO VIDEO)
6.4GB HARD DRIVE
4X CD-RW DRIVE
3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE
3COM PCI NETWORK CARD
56K PCI MODEM
SIS530 VIDEO
ESS SOLO 1 SOUND
2 REAR USB PORTS
$149.00

INTEL PENTIUM III 450MHZ CPU
BX CHIPSET MOTHERBOARD
160MB SDRAM
4.3GB HARD DRIVE
CD-ROM DRIVE
3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE
4MB S3 TRIO 3D AGP VIDEO
RTL 8019 NETWORK CARD
CMI 8330 SOUND
2 REAR USB PORTS
PS/2 PORT
$149.00

INTEL CELERON 433MHZ CPU
96MB SDRAM
9.6GB HARD DRIVE
CD-ROM DRIVE
3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE
INTEGRATED RAGE PRO TURBO VIDEO
RIPTIDE PCI SOUND/MODEM 56K
RTL 8029 PCI NETWORK CARD
2 REAR USB PORTS
WINDOWS 98A LICENCE
RESTORE CDs
$120.00
 
IBM APTIVA E-SERIES DESKTOP
AMD K6-2 500MHZ CPU
192MB SDRAM (8MB TO VIDEO)
6.4GB HARD DRIVE
4X CD-RW DRIVE
3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE
3COM PCI NETWORK CARD
56K PCI MODEM
SIS530 VIDEO
ESS SOLO 1 SOUND
2 REAR USB PORTS
$149.00


And on an unrelated question, why do you hate AMD, and love Intel?
 
i dont like AMD because i have had intels since the 80s, and they have worked very well for me

my brothers AMD ( i bought it for him) is slow...and AMD's are known to have less MHz than intel

so thats why i prefer intel over amd
 
You know hereÂ’s the funny thing about Intel. They have higher clock speeds but still AMD can beat them with a much lower clock speed. So then it makes you wonder which really is better. An AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ @ 2.4GHz or an Intel Pentium D 840 @ 3.2GHz.
 
talldude123 said:
i dont like AMD because i have had intels since the 80s, and they have worked very well for me

my brothers AMD ( i bought it for him) is slow...and AMD's are known to have less MHz than intel

so thats why i prefer intel over amd

That's kind of dumb.

Both company's have had their up's and their down's. Right now Intel is in a down :rolleyes:
 
Yeah, but I'd like to quickly say that ever since the 64 bit processors, AMD has been climbing rather quickly. If Intel doesn't do something fast, I don't know what'll happen. Seems that Intel is behind AMD right now even WITH the hyper threading.
 
well all i use my celeron for is music, internet, and watching movies. I will upgrade to a pentium 4 soon, but i wont use AMD, cause my other computer sucks which has it
 
im just surprised taht you have 200+ posts on these forums and dont know that AMD is better than intel (cost:performance etc).

i bet you mostly think this because of advertising etc. i used to think intels "ruled" mostly because of their commercials haha.
 
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