What do you guys do, do you buy the fastest fkn chip you can, or do you buy the one with the best cost/speed ratio?? I'm not sure if it's smartest to buy the fastest, or to save some money on one that's a few months old.
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Re: CPU... What's practical?
Sun, June 19, 2005 - 11:57 AMUp until recently, I've always bought my pc parts a generation behind. I haven't needed bleeding edge until I started doing 3d engine development (gotta have those compile times down). Right now, a generation behind is approximately 3 ghz athlon 64. DO get 64 bit. If you use linux, you'll notice the performance increase.
Don't skimp on your ram. Get the good ram. Get a good mobo. Everything else can be skimped on and upgraded when you're good and ready.
If you buy every cpu/ram/mobo a generation behind, you're still upgrading just as often, but you're saving mad bank. -
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Re: CPU... What's practical?
Mon, July 18, 2005 - 12:06 AMI second the motion for the Athlon 64 processor. If you get something around the 3200+ speed rating, you'll have a lot of overclocking headroom if you get a good motherboard & RAM to match. My suggestions for those would be something nForce 4 based, such as the DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D for the motherboard and any decent Samsung TCCD based ram (such as the G.Skill F1-3200DSU2-1GBLC (1gb of PC4400 DDR Ram). If you need any specific help, feel free to ask. -
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Re: CPU... What's practical?
Wed, December 14, 2005 - 1:56 PMwell tomshardware.com has the info and comparison charts on everything. i'd get a 3.2 64 amde over intel.
NF4 nforce chipsets are the best for 64 bit chips.
if you go intel i herad you better get a intel chipset-board too
The best deals i found for mobo/memory/chip & everything else is below.. check thier speacalls too
www.pcinfinity.net/Merchant2/merchant.mv
I personally say screw it and got a barton xp chip system instead. it was used and cost 220.00 for evething even 19 inch monitor. And im happy with it.
2600 barton-512 400 mhz duel ram-9200 ati card- audigy sound. off bran mobo though. yet it's solid heh cool huh.
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Re: CPU... What's practical?
Wed, August 24, 2005 - 11:11 AMYipper skipper athalon is great. And buying a generation behind is the smart move everytime.
The industrry is trying to out run itself all the time. That means the customers are the real proving ground and QC lab for everything.
Byuing the newest latest greatest means you are a pioneer.
Pioneers get scalped in oh so many ways.
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Re: CPU... What's practical?
Sun, May 14, 2006 - 7:40 AM
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Re: CPU... What's practical?
Sun, May 14, 2006 - 8:54 AMI prefer Athlons too. For most things, anything above a PIII 750 is fine. You can surf the interent, write letters and do all sorts of things. Where the processor speed comes into play is having CPU intensive apps like games or large spreadsheets etc. My fastest computer is an Athlon 64- 3000 and it seems to be no faster than my iMac with a 500 MHZ power PC processor.
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Re: CPU... What's practical?
Wed, August 16, 2006 - 6:04 PMYes, I'd agree with most of the advice here.
Only my 2c worth to add: just make sure to check the processor socket spec and make sure the motherboard processor socket will allow upgrade to the next processor you wnat to/likely to want to go for. Also check to see memory type/speeds the motherboard supports as this can limit memory upgradability.
all the best
milus
