Hi all, I'm finally looking for a high spec PC for home, but don't want to go to the space age and pay for it - if you know what I mean. I'm looking for mega performance from current specs...Best options look like building the system and I'm after some advise as where to go........
1. The AMD Athlon chips are faster and much cheaper than building an equivalent Pentium system? 2. There's not usually too much difference in the chip prices either, $10 or so per 100 mhz so is it's worth getting the fastest available?? not me thinks. 3. They have just brought out some new chips, palamino, which have more cache, but are more expensive so I think maybe it's probably isn't worth going with. 4. ECS Elitegroup motherboard - K7S5A. I'm looking at this as it seems a good one as the chipset is fast and reliable. 5. AMD Athlon 1.4GHz. This is the 266Mhz bus version and is plenty fast enough. The motherboard and CPU were $180 with another $20 for a decent heatsink and fan for the cpu as they run quite hot. 6. Found 256meg 2100 DDR ram $36 - bargain! www.crucial.com 7. video - A Radeon 8500 !!! or Geforce2 video card. What's the story with MX versions as they are performance crippled versions of the Geforce 2 GTS and above. The Pro or Ultra are good and the Geforce3 is even better but seems pricey... It's a long time since I followed in this at a murky depth and any help is appreciated Cheers Tim Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=23826&t=23826 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
