Re: Have the CPU price drops made it to the end user???

Rod Speed wrote:
Charlie Wilkes <charlie_wilkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
eVe GiiDiiOn <Eve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

I was not paying a lot of attention to the price of CPUs lately,
other then the fact of planning to build a new system. I want an AMD
X2 4.4 Ghz (+) and I was wondering if the price reductions I have
seen brandied about the inter have trickled down to the end user?

I have never had any luck upgrading a CPU on the MB in the past. By
the time I was ready to upgrade the CPU I wanted wouldn't work on the
MB or some other reason would make it impractical to upgrade only the
CPU. With this in mind should I get the new AM2 ( I think that is
the name) MB/Chip set that is out or is the x2 939 ok? I will
probably use the 4.4 Hz + and whatever MB I get initially for the
life of the system and do not plan on upgrading the CPU at a later date.

I think those are still pretty expensive.

Below is the one I have been looking at, but I haven't bought it and
won't because I just built a system that is good enough to last me
quite a few years.

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Skusearch.hmx?scriteria=BA21810

It's not 4.4 ghz, but it's only US$153, and what are you doing that
calls for 4.4ghz? I suppose you are planning to upgrade to Vista, in
which case 4.4ghz will be barely enough, from what I've heard.

Also, can SATA and IDE HD's both work on the same system?
Besides the Power Supply and physical space, what limits the
number of Hard Drives a person can have in there system?

My (limited) experience with SATA is that it's problematic and not worth it.

You're wrong.

It's the SCSI of the 00s.

Nope, the IDE of the 2006+s

I use a small (40gb) IDE drive to store my
programs, with a bigger one for mass storage.

Not a great idea to be buying new IDE drives today for a new system,
there are already some motherboards with just one IDE port now and
one of those would normally be used for the DVD burner.

SATA has much more future with hard drives.

Please sages of this group, share the wealth of you knowledge with one
so undeserving as myself. And offer me any suggestions you deem wise.

Why are you undeserving? Are we not all God's children?

There is no god, just an endless variety of crutches for pathetically inadequate 'minds'



And the pigmaster just jumps right into Charles's baited trap ... pig feet first ... LOL

John
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