[plug] P4 1.4

[Adam Hewitt]

On 16/12/2003, at 9:14 AM, Ben Jensz wrote:

> I can't bring myself to buy or recommend AMDs to anyone at the moment. 
>  The first Athlons were great (the Slot A based ones), and so were the 
> Thunderbird and Palomino ones (first XPs) performance wise.  But 
> reliability and cooling wise (with the reliability being tied directly 
> to the cooling issues), they are shockers.
>
> Versus the P4 1.4 he was going to use.. the slowest Celery you could 
> probably get new would probably be faster anyway.

I would agree, except that the cooling issues are purely caused by an 
insufficient fan and heatsink. Get a decent fan and heatsink and your 
problems are solvered.

Adam.