gaming, I'd go with a 939 socket processor and MB. If newegg.com was coming
up (they've had some problems today), they have a Motherboard selector,
where you can tell it what features you want, what processor socket, etc.
Here's a good article for AMD vs. Intel for gaming:
HYPERLINK
"http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149&p=7"http://www.ana
ndtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149&p=7
I think you can get the AMD 3500+ Socket 939 for around $300-350 and it
smokes even the 3.4 Extreme Edition P4, which costs around $1000.
When I do place my order, I'm going to get either a 3.2 or 3.4 GHz 1MB cache
Pentium 4 with HT (Hyper-Threading). I'll lose a couple percentage points
in gaming, but the HT will help with encoding videos and other multimedia
junk. If you do end up buying a P4, I wouldn't go with the 925x chipsets
either...you get something like 1-3% performance increase over the 915
chipsets for about $100 more.
Check it out here:
HYPERLINK
"http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2088"http://www.anandte
ch.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2088
Yep...I like the anandtech site ;-)
And LCDs are much better now than a few years ago. Just make sure you get
one with a low response time (anything below 16ms or so is pretty darn
good.)
Tyler
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From: Asim Manzur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 4:01 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: New computer Advice
So you mean that I can use the same motherboard i.e. ABIT AA8 3rd Eye with
the AMD processor?? if not will you recommend me any m/b with I can use with
AMD processor?
what about the LCD display. I heard that LCD displays are not good for
gaming. is that correct??
Thanks
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