Re: Which CPU ....dammit ! ? :-)

Thanx for all your thoughts :-)

I've fiddling with :-
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2004.html?modelx=33&model1=79&model2=67&chart=28
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=268&model2=250&chart=63

....and it looks to me like I would have to spend a big amount of money to
get bigger speed than my trusty old XP2600+ Barton.

I would have liked something that would e.g. encode a DivX movie to really
high quality, without multiple passes, in maybe just a couple of minutes,
whilst using the PC for several other things at the same time !

regards, Richard


"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:drjd0d$f5d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello ;-)
>
> Whilst I could happily spend forever studying cpu / motherboard reviews at
> site like Tomshardware etc. ..(...this evening disappeared doing just
> that ), if money was almost limitless - which would you buy; AMD or Intel,
> and which socket ? ...and now there are dual core cpu's that further
> complicate and delay a decision.
>
> I thought I was leaning towards a P4 640 with is attractive 2mb L2 cache
> but, then there's several offers on AMD at http://www.aria.co.uk where I
> buy
> my parts.
>
> ....and THIS time around the b****y thing will be silent !!!! ...or as
> near
> as dammit to it as I can get it. I sorted out an abused XP Home ed.
> platform the other day and the system box it was in was almost completely
> silent, it was a Packard Bell I think.
>
> regards, Richard
>
>


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