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Re: Speed Comparison

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  • Subject: [mg38519] Re: Speed Comparison
  • From: "Robert G. Wilson v" <rgwv at kspaint.com>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:40:30 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Kansas Paint & Color Co.
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Dear Flip,

	I run Windows 2000 with all the latest updates, and Mathematica version 4.1.0.0. 
My machine is an Athlon thunderbird 1200 MHz chip on a One-Main mother board @ 
133 with 512 Meg double speed Ram and in comparison with other Intel chips I seem 
to run circles around them.

Bob.

flip wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am due for a new computer and my driving requirement is Mathematica speed.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone could recommend which processor family (Intel or
> AMD) and which OS (Win NT or WXP) has the best speed comparison.
> 
> I read a statement that said the AMD runs circles for FP ops. over Intel,
> but there was no more detail, so I was wondering.
> 
> Note: I have always thought about going MAC, but just have too much software
> that I use and cannot afford to.
> 
> Thanks for any guidance, Flip
> 
> Remove "_alpha" to email me.
> 
> 
> 


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