OT: Help buying a new computer

Thermodyne · #1 August 2nd, 2005, 08:11 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
Sure you can. I spent 45 bucks on a case that easily matches those listed in performance, just without the gaudiness.

Ah, computer fairs.

Well. Show us!

Atrocities · #2 August 3rd, 2005, 05:27 PM

So I guess I should ask, what is a solid mother board and cpu combination? Should a person get a PCI express video card or stick with AGP?

Cases - cooling and power are the primary factors when using in conjunction with an AMD. Cooling being the TOP priority.

And when they say PC400 - Dual -, and all you can find is 3200, WTF comes to mind. Any insights?

And thanks for the comments guys.

Enu is like 15 minutes from here so no shipping costs or sales taxes to contend with.

Will · #3 August 3rd, 2005, 07:18 PM

Memory types can be a bit confusing at times... especially because some sellers screw it up. "PC400" probably means "DDR 400MHz" since it says it's dual channel, which is the same as "PC3200".

Thermodyne · #4 August 3rd, 2005, 08:54 PM

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Will said:
Memory types can be a bit confusing at times... especially because some sellers screw it up. "PC400" probably means "DDR 400MHz" since it says it's dual channel, which is the same as "PC3200".

WTF:P......You want to splain that to me.

Dual channel means two memory channels as opposed to one for the old DDR standard. (Almost twice the bandwidth)
For DDR
PC2700 = 333MHz
PC3200 = 400MHz
Top end sticks are now
PC4800 = 600MHz
Top end DDR2 sticks are
PC6400 = 800MHz

If you are not going to OC, just get 2 sticks of the fasted standard that the board supports. It takes 2 sticks to make use of dual channel.

Thermodyne · #5 August 3rd, 2005, 08:57 PM

Right now, the best bang for your buck would be an AMD64 rated somewhere around 3000 or above. Be sure to get a SD version.

Will · #6 August 3rd, 2005, 10:05 PM

I said it was probably DDR because as far as I know, only DDR is dual channel. PC400 could also have been referring to PC400 SDRAM, which is a lot older and outdated, but the dual channel part implied not. And I said "DDR 400MHz" is the same as "PC3200". So... not really sure what I need to explain, since I basically said the exact thing you did

Thermodyne · #7 August 4th, 2005, 12:16 AM

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Will said:
I said it was probably DDR because as far as I know, only DDR is dual channel. PC400 could also have been referring to PC400 SDRAM, which is a lot older and outdated, but the dual channel part implied not. And I said "DDR 400MHz" is the same as "PC3200". So... not really sure what I need to explain, since I basically said the exact thing you did

Just razzen ya, SDram would be PC66, PC100 and PC133. And RDram on 820 chips sets was dual channel as PC600 and PC800, quad on the 850 and 860 and added PC1066.

Thermodyne · #8 August 3rd, 2005, 08:46 PM

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Atrocities said:
So I guess I should ask, what is a solid mother board and cpu combination? Should a person get a PCI express video card or stick with AGP?

Cases - cooling and power are the primary factors when using in conjunction with an AMD. Cooling being the TOP priority.

And when they say PC400 - Dual -, and all you can find is 3200, WTF comes to mind. Any insights?

And thanks for the comments guys.

Enu is like 15 minutes from here so no shipping costs or sales taxes to contend with.

1} Almost any name Asus, Abit, Intel, and DFI are the big four. Abit is best for the AMD chips unless you really know what you are doing, in which case the DFI boards have more head room. NF4 chipsets for AMD and NF4 or Intel chipsets for Intel. AGP is end of life get PCI X16.

2)Intel needs lots of cooling too.

3) Lots of pc400 or faster out there, find a better store. Also, for Intel, DDR2 is the new standard.