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OttoDestruct
Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">I summon thee.. or some crap</div> Uhm. yea. I'm about to order the motherboard for a new computer, when CWAG brought up using AMD. I was planning on running a P4 2.4ghz 800mhz FSB HT processor. The motherboard I had picked out (Gigabyte don't remember exact model name I think something like 1000 Pro) and processor would ring up together at about 280 dollars. Now my question is, how much of a performance gain is this over a $90 AMD cpu running 2500+ with 333 bus, along with a motherboard (any recommendations? I know Asus makes good ones but theres a TON of them, I'm looking for one with integrated audio, but no integrated graphics.)
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AMD AthlonXP 2700+
512MB DDR RAM.
and a junky generic full tower case. (6 drive bays) for.... $494.
AMD AthlonXP 2700+
512MB DDR RAM.
and a junky generic full tower case. (6 drive bays) for.... $494. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No offence, but I think the 2700+ is a poor choice for a processor. It's among the worst price/performance ratios from AMD. You can save 20 bucks and get a 2600+ with Barton, which won't even feel that much worse.
Well that's what I would choose because I'm so poor <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
And I stand beside what I said about avoiding the nVidiot nForce/2 chipset. Hell, people STILL are having problems getting them working... with GeForce cards! (ATI cards apparently work without a hitch.. they just can't get their own gear to work together without hiccups)
Though since you use the term 'nVidiot' I get the feeling that you are a anti-nVidia fanboy.
The term 'nVidiot' mostly comes from looking at the company's actions, utilizing their marketing muscle more than technical expertise to keep their marketshare, running outright smear campaigns in the past to keep superior cards off the store shelves so they could sell more of their own (ex: The Kyro2 video card, while priced to compete with the GF2MX boards, would easily keep pace with a GF2GTS, or even a GF2Ultra in most games. They put out an 'informational packet' to major suppliers, displaying 'major rendering errors' which ONLY surfaced when utilizing the advanced driver tweaks in a certain order, which were clearly labelled 'advanced users only'. This killed the sales of the K2 as no one was able to buy them, and see for themselves that the PVR tile-based renderer easily outperformed their immediate-mode path). As well, their current 'optimizations' in the drivers for a number of games which FORCE visual options down without letting users disable them, while *enabling* the highest-quality modes only when taking a _screenshot_, are viewed as highly shady. As well, bringing their marketshare to bear in muscling 3DMark into accepting their hard-coded tweaks ONLY for that benchmark (static culling planes inserted manually on a given sequence, ONLY raising performance in that benchmark alone).
nVidiot is a fitting term for those proponents clinging to them, much the way a number of people still cling to 3Dfx.
AMD AthlonXP 2700+
512MB DDR RAM.
and a junky generic full tower case. (6 drive bays) for.... $494. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No offence, but I think the 2700+ is a poor choice for a processor. It's among the worst price/performance ratios from AMD. You can save 20 bucks and get a 2600+ with Barton, which won't even feel that much worse.
Well that's what I would choose because I'm so poor <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Heh, you caught my typo. I am getting a 2600. T-bred. I looked it over in comparison to some mighty P4's. The P4's always JUST beat it by a lil' bit. Except on Games. That made me feel warm and fuzzy. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Uh... Better performance? AMD's cpus get 9 processes a cycle to Intel's 6. Thats why my 2600 clocked at 2.0somethingGhz performs as well as a 2.6Ghz pentium (Thats the reason behind the 2600 part <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> )
I've been an AMD fan since I built my first >400mhz PC. The Athlons were almost always half the price of the Intel equivalents. Seeing as that I was on a small budget, this was perfect. I don't care if the P4's are a little faster, I save a good deal of cash with the AMDs. I haven't noticed any instability that could be blamed on the processor and not Windows itself.
Go AMD <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
AMD AthlonXP 2700+
512MB DDR RAM.
and a junky generic full tower case. (6 drive bays) for.... $494. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
CWAG where did you order that from? I'm looking into getting a new computer myself and that beats the pants off any price quote I've gotten so far.
AMD AthlonXP 2700+
512MB DDR RAM.
and a junky generic full tower case. (6 drive bays) for.... $494. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
CWAG where did you order that from? I'm looking into getting a new computer myself and that beats the pants off any price quote I've gotten so far. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well, the 2700 is a typo. I'm getting a 2600...
Other than that, I get it special from my friends vendor...I usually get things at a very good price. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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