Ooo, I believe USB 2 is faster than FireWire. But FireWire has it's next format out there too. It's just neither have really become the industry standard, so we're not seeing either. From the sounds of it, Intel's new motherboard will SUPPORT USB2, not necessarily have it.
Pentiums and AMD chips have a lot of differences. First off, they require different motherboards, so keep that in mind. FSB speeds play a huge part in processor performance. Back in the day, the AMD was doing better than the P3. The P3 wasn't too much worse, but also some of the old games didn't work with the AMD processors.
Right now, from what I've been hearing, P4 is wasting AMD.
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