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

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:21:59 +1000, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Charlie Wilkes <charlie_wilkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

I suppose you're right. But, I have used a couple of systems
with SATA drives, and they didn't seem any faster.

They arent any faster, just got much more future.

And look at all the SATA problems that get fielded in this group.

Bugger all really. And that's just because up till quite recently,
the motherboard and XP support hasnt been that well done.

Indeed. That's why I don't like them. I'm not sure they have gotten
the implementation down even yet, but perhaps they have.

I feel the same way about dual video cards and certain other aspects
of the latest & greatest. I'm not agin it, but I'm agin spending
money on something that turns out to be too screwy for practical use.

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'

You sound bitter.

You need to get those ears tested then.

That's too bad.

Nothing like as bad as mindlessly grovelling to some damned 'god' or other.

But what if they're RIGHT? What if there is a hell? You will rue
these words if that is the case.

I'm thinking about converting to Islam on account of all the *** in
their heaven. I figure I can run through my quota of virgins and then
go for sloppy seconds on everyone else's ex-virgins. I'm not proud.

But I won't do it if I have to blow myself up in a shopping mall to
qualify for ***. I have certain standards.

Charlie
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