Big difference bettween Athlon Tbird and XP??

i would have to say yes.

if your that badly off for cash, either wait or get the Tbird 1.4.

its no slowpoke the tbird 1.4, but the XP1600+ has a number of improvements such as:

1. design optimisations that give it a 20% reduction in heat output compared to a tbird at the same clock speed.

2. Hardware prefetch. speeds up many applications by an appricable amount, particularly ones that are bandwidth hungry.

3. SSE instrution set. allows u to use SSE if applications support them, speeding up things by a considerable margin

so yeah. i reccomend the XP over the tbird.
you could always get a 1500+ u know, its no slouch either!



The lack of thermal protection on Athlon's is cunning way to stop morons from using AMD.

Go with the XP, 15 or 1600+. The 1500+ is only 5$ more then the Tbird =)

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