Real World Comparisons: AMD 3200 -vs- Intel 3.2. Your thoughts, experiences....

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:14:56 +0400, Nadeem wrote:

George Macdonald wrote:
Oh and the Maxtor diags don't work
with nVidia chipsets -

Damn!!!!!!!!!! Thats why things weren't working on my brother's pc.!!

Hmmm, you mean the diags didn't work - yes? IIRC the diag software just
goes to a blank screen and then back to a DOS prompt but the drives work OK
with the nVidia chipset under the usual OSs. I spent ~1/2hour scouring the
Maxtor Tech Supp site before I stumbled on a FAQ which confesses about the
diags problem. Oops, they finally moved the confession up front:
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm - still says
"slated for release soon". Makes you wonder what they understand by
"soon"... ummm, 'we can't figure it out'?:-)

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??

George Macdonald wrote:
Hmmm, you mean the diags didn't work - yes? IIRC the diag software just
goes to a blank screen and then back to a DOS prompt but the drives work OK
with the nVidia chipset under the usual OSs. I spent ~1/2hour scouring the
Maxtor Tech Supp site before I stumbled on a FAQ which confesses about the
diags problem. Oops, they finally moved the confession up front:
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm - still says
"slated for release soon". Makes you wonder what they understand by
"soon"... ummm, 'we can't figure it out'?:-)

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??

yeah the diag software just wouldnt work. All the time I thought my
disks or the floppy disk drive was bad...

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Thanks for the great discussions around this. I think I will move
forward with the Intel 3.2GHz setup. This topic took me beyond things
that I traditionally consider in buying or even building a system.
Disks, video compatibility and other BIOS limitations. I think what
finally convinced me was the application testing that someone posted.
When looking at this, the numbers showed the 3.0GHz chip's abilities.
I figure that even if they are minute increases, the Intel 3.2's
performance will still exceed the AMDs in the applications that I
currently need this new machine to execute.

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in the discussion, and to
those who emailed me directly.

-Ted

RusH wrote:

2 x 512MB brand-name memory

1 x 1 Gig of brand mem, no point in getting dual channel for a 20%
added cost

Huh? No point in doubling your bandwidth?