P4's and new Intel chips

[Guest]

A lot of people I know are going out and buying brand new Intel P4's. This doesn't make sense to me. The P4's are incredibly expensive, use the unstable RDRAM, and will be replaced by a new Intel chip in less than a year, leaving no upgrade path.
Am I the only one who thinks this way? I'll take a 1.2Ghz Thunderbird anyday.

-Pedro229

 

[Guest]

I would personally not touch a P4 , but if you buy any chip today you would have no upgrade path in a year.....

M

one of the first UK T-Bird users....

 

[Bubba]

I'm with ya pedro. But just let them go. They can't be reasoned with and they will just never get it.
Take all the money you saved on your AMD chip and go buy some really cool graphics-intense video games so you can show all those people how much better everything looks on the AMD machine.
Then just sit back, watch their faces turn red and listen to them make silly excuses and outrageous claims.

Flame-suit ready.

 

[leonov]

RDRAM may be many bad things but unstable is not one of them. Where did you hear this?

L

 

[Guest]

I heard it was unstable from Tom's hardware, and I found out it was expensive from pricewatch.com. All the evidence indicates RDRAM is unstable, if I could, I'd go with DDR ram whenit comes out.

 

[Grizely1]

it is out.

 

[AmdMELTDOWN]

hi,

can you post the link to where it says rambus is unstable?
also, if you go to www.pricewatch.com you'll see ddr from $92 to $379

 

[girish]

people go by brandnames, and AMD isnt that big as Intel. and people who have 2k$ lying around go over and buy a P4.
surprised to see there are many of them. somebody let the income tax guys at them.

btw RDRAM isnt unstable, its just expensive, especially at its current performance offerings.

girish