Vorbis - May 2001 - AW: Are AMDs preferable? [was: Choosing a processor]

Hi Joane,

I think AMDs are 'preferable' of cost/'performance unit'. For
standard
applications you will have to compare a Duron-900 to a P-III-933; and AMDs
will perform much better when it comes to number crunching. And now -- have
a look at the prices...!

I wouldn't buy any Intel chip today... this may be a 'European'
habit, but I
think it isn't / shouldn't be.

So long
Friedrich

PS: When ripping/encoding at multi-speed, you cannot listen to the CD -- the
CD-ROM drive will be to slow to step between the to reading positions. But
there is no problem with listening/ripping/encoding at single speed (or
faster, if you prefer... ;).

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Hi Friedrich,
>I think AMDs are 'preferable' of cost/'performance unit'.
For standard
>applications you will have to compare a Duron-900 to a P-III-933; and AMDs
>will perform much better when it comes to number crunching. And now -- have
>a look at the prices...!
Well, then it really seems like an easy choice...
>I wouldn't buy any Intel chip today... this may be a 'European'
habit, but
>I
>think it isn't / shouldn't be.
Well, being a British "Europhile" (rare breed... :-), I don't have
any
problems with that!  :-)

Bye,

Joane
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Burgwedel Friedrich wrote:
> 
> I wouldn't buy any Intel chip today...
Neither would I, especially not a Pentium 4.
> this may be a 'European' habit, but I
> think it isn't / shouldn't be.
>
I'd say it was the other way around. Well, In Spain
anyway...I'm not so sure about Germany.
 


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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 06:43:44PM +0200, Burgwedel Friedrich
wrote:
> PS: When ripping/encoding at multi-speed, you cannot listen to the CD --
the
> CD-ROM drive will be to slow to step between the to reading positions. But
> there is no problem with listening/ripping/encoding at single speed (or
> faster, if you prefer... ;).
I have successfully ripped and played at the same time (usually
without realizing it), and the CD-ROM drive makes funny noises and the
rip slows to a crawl, but it keeps playing! It's worse if the play and
rip read points are far apart but even then I've had it work
okay. I have also ripped with two CD-ROM drives at once ... fun
stuff. Now back to work...


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> Von: Kenneth Arnold [mailto:ken@arnoldnet.net]
> I have successfully ripped and played at the same time (usually
> without realizing it), and the CD-ROM drive makes funny noises and the
> rip slows to a crawl, but it keeps playing!
Ok, so you may have a real fast (in terms of seek time) cdrom drive...
> I have also ripped with two CD-ROM drives at once ... fun stuff.
If I want to keep my machine busy 'till next morning, I usually rip several
CDs to disk first (3:48 each) and then launch one encoder for each.

So long
Friedrich

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