Re: Time for a new PC, which motherboard?
- From: "sbb78247" <sbb78247@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:46:02 +0545
Jan Alter wrote:
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
oh really? have you seen this?
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores/
or this?
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/12/your_diy_gaming_rig_for_720/
makes one rethink the whole amd gives you more for less argument.
.
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