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I'm moving over from an Intel system (3.5 Ghz 1 gb memory 2.8c @ 3.5) to an FX53 on Monday May 3rd.
If you just compare feature sets with an FX or Athlon64 cpu you'll find a longer life span than the P4EE's.
Granted that newer standards are coming out in the next few months, ie
PCI Express Video cards, BTX cases, DDR2 memory, 939 pin cpu's, new SATA standards, etc, but buying an FX chip now makes sense if you plan on having the system for about a year or so. By that time all the kinks hopefully will be fixed in the list of new standards above
BTW my Intel system did 21520 in 3DM 2001 and 6996 in 3DM 2003.
I'm sure the FX will beat those, I'm a gamer, higher is better :)
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Date: 05/01/04 12:11:52 PM]