Re: Time for a new PC, which motherboard?



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"coolsti" <cool@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:16:22 +0000, Charlie Wilkes wrote:

Go to www.motherboards.org and do some searches. If you are satisfied
with what you've got and just want to upgrade your wife, I would go
for 1 or 2 gb of Corsair Value RAM, an ASUS board with 800mhz fsb,
another 2.4ghz p4, an ATI PCIE video card with 256mb of ram, an Antec
PSU. In US$ that would be about $75 per gb of RAM, $50 for the board,
$100 for CPU, $150-200 for video card, $65 for PSU.

The reason I suggest ATI is because nvidia cards seem to have lots of
problems these days, although I know there are some good ones and
satisfied users.

I think you can get a little more oomph per dollar (kronar) with an
AMD setup, but intel is good too. Here is one I built a few months
ago that I'm very happy with:

www.geocities.com/wilkes_charlie/new_system.htm

Charlie

Hi Charlie and thanks for the reply!

I am definitely satisfied with what I have now, except for the fact that
when I read the PC requirements for a game like Oblivion, I see that my 3
year old home-built is just at the bottom of what is acceptable to run the
game. So definitely when I upgrade my wife's HP Vectra 800 1.5GHz 400mhz
fsb with RDRAM, I certainly would like it to be able to play current and
future games well for a number of years.

So I think a move to at least 3ghz p4 would be wise, wouldn't it?

I have only experience with nvidia cards, so that is why I look in this
direction. It could be I should consider ATI. But the choice of
motherboard is not determined by the video card, or is the situation
different today? I am thinking of deciding on the video card later, after
I get the CPU and motherboard chosen.

Whether to go AMD or Intel CPU? Again, I only have Intel experience, and I
have read three years ago that building a PC with an Intel CPU is far
easier than with AMD (how the CPU is attached to the motherboard).

If Intel Pentium 4, is there a particular chipset I should go for?

Another problem I experienced 3 years ago is that once I chose the CPU and
chipset, I suddenly found that each motherboard manufacturer had not one
but several choices of motherboards, all with different "extra" features.
Very confusing! I can deselect all those that have onboard video, but what
of these other features? Obviously I want USB and firewire, but is there
anything else that I should make sure I include?

Thanks for any help!

Steve, Denmark




Whether to go AMD or Intel CPU? Again, I only have Intel experience, and I
have read three years ago that building a PC with an Intel CPU is far
easier than with AMD (how the CPU is attached to the motherboard).

Well in the 3 years that you've been on hiatus from building, AMD has made
it exactly the same as Intel to plant a HSF on top of a processor.
It's no easier and no harder. The difference is that you're paying less for
more.
I used to feel exactly as you did, being conservative and going with the
Intel attitude. But I realized six or so years ago that AMD was giving a lot
more for the money, even if it was a little trickier to install the HSF.
Today one installs both cpu's the same way from both companies. CPU temps
also came down considerably, and are comparable to Intel. But like then (6
yers ago) one still gets more for the money with AMD.

Jan Alter
bearpuf@xxxxxxxxxxx
or
jalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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