Intel Pentium 75 MHz processor

Advantages: fast, new
Disadvantages: expensive

...I upgraded from an Intel Pentium II 450 mhz to the new Intel Pentium III 700 mhz mainly because of the upgrade offer at a low cost. I found that immediately there was a noticeable difference and just the way in which my computer carried out every day tasks like opening programs and the likes seemed to fly through as if my old chip was carrying 4 suitcases with it on it's chores! I find no problems at all with it and I would seriously recommend it to anyone after a high speed processor with lightning speed and good capabilities.... Read review

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Advantages: Fast and cheap
Disadvantages: Slower than Pentium 4

...’s perfomance can equal the equivalent of a 3 GHZ processor. The Athlon XP runs at a clock speed of only 2.16 GHZ but it can outperform the 2.66 GHZ of Intel. The fronside bus is one thing that AMD has yet to improve, Intel has a massive FSB reaching 800 mhz compared to AMD’s 333 mhz. If you have an old Socket A motherboard which only supports 266 mhz fsb. The Athlon Xp 3000+ will also run but the front side bus will be limited to 266 mhz and will display incorrect clock speed. When it comes to installing this processor is relatively easy. The difficult part is installing the heatsink fan. You should be very careful because it might cause your processor to crack. Pls. check Motherboard’s user’s manual of installing your processor before doing anything. The Athlon XP 3000+ is about 75 bucks cheaper than the Pentium 4 3.06 GHZ The Socket... Read review

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Advantages: They are very powewrful processors
Disadvantages: Too expensive

...I'm not if AMD have done this but Intel definitely have. When they introduced the PIII 450 MHz for the first time, they did not mention to the public that it was only 10% faster than it's little brother the Pentium II 450MHz processor. When the gigahertz processor was introduced, it was tested by a popular computer magazine. I found the results to be surprising. In some areas of performance the Gigahertz processor was SLOWER than the 850 MHz processor. When ever a new processor is introduced it is always overpriced. This overpricing is not little it is ridicously high. A month or two after the release the prices drop massively. Then soon after a new processor is introduced, faster and more powerful. When this show will end who knows. These very powerful processors don't even operate to maximum performance because of the operating... Read review

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