I bought an AMD Athlon 500 with 128 Mb of RAM about 8 months ago. I also bought a Diamond Viper and used my Soundblaster 32 from my old computer. I have not had a single problem. In canada, the Athlon is cheaper but you have to buy a more expensive motherboard and power supply, so in the end the Athlon route was about the same price as the Intel route. That said I still went with the Athlon and have yet to experience any performance problems. I installed windows 98 on it, for the better games support (as compared to NT)

I am an Oracle developer, and the tools are pigs (Designer/2000 and Developer/2000). I can run both as well as several other apps (ms office apps and even some games) all at the same time and have yet not had a noticeable slow down, so I'm not sure about the claim in a previous note that claims Athlons don't perform as well as Intel's chips in the multi-tasking arena. I am extrememly happy with my purchase and would highly recommend it to anyone else

Hitman

Edited by - Hitman on June 27, 2000 11:36:08 AM

Edited by - Hitman on June 27, 2000 11:36:37 AM