Compare Intel Pentium® III, 1.4 GHz (BX80530C1400512) Retail Processor to AMD Opteron™ 285, 2.6 GHz 750 (OSA285CBBOX) Boxed Processor

The Intel Pentium III processor offers great performance for today and tomorrow's applications, as well as quality, reliability, and compatibility from the world's leading microprocessor company. The Pentium III processor enables higher polygon counts and advanced lighting effects, which can provide software and Web sites with more lifelike surfaces, more objects rendered in a given scene, and amazing shadow effects and reflections rendered in real time.??The performance of the Pentium III processor enables software developers to incorporate a greater degree of realism and interactivity. Imagine flight simulators with wings that actually flex, driving simulations with suspension that actually works, or gaming characters with fingers that can touch and grasp. The Pentium III processor can provide better responsiveness with your graphics software by offering increased frame rates, color depths, and image processing algorithms. This means you can work with large, complex images and di... Less

AMD is continuing to drive technology leadership by introducing another computing first: multi-core technology for the x86-based computing market. Dual-core AMD Opteron processors for servers and workstations extend AMDs Direct Connect Architecture by connecting two CPUs on one die, improving overall system performance and efficiency. This Opteron model 285 is a 2.6GHz processor with a 2MB L2 cache, HyperTransport Technology Speed of 1GHz and Socket 940. Less