On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:27:42PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Thanks, but suppose that I don't have enough money to buy the Core 2 Duo > barebones box at ?350 ($700) but I can afford an AMD Sempron 3000 box at > ?139 ($280). Would you prefer the AMD Sempron over a similarly priced > Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz?
Yes, because anything based on the netburst architecture is baned from my purchases. I am not sure I would even buy anything with such a limited budget, which may explain why my own personal machine is still an athlon 700 :) Meanwhile my wife has an athlon 64 mobile 3200+ laptop, my sister just got a Core 2 Duo 6400 for xmas, and the machien I am building for my farther to run CAD in a couple of months will be either the Core 2 Duo 6600 or 6700. The machine for my sister came to $1100CDN before taxes, which was for a Core 2 Duo 6400, 1GB DDR2-PC6400 ram, P5B motherboard, 7600GT video card, TJ04 case, 360W power supply, and a logitech MX3200 cordless desktop. To me cutting of even $100 from that made the machine overall a lot worse, so I didn't. There is a huge difference between a $700 machine and a $1000 machine. I have a hard time imagining the obsolete components in a $300 machine. Given when things go wrong later, I will be the one fixing it, I value my time too much to put up with that. > For little more $320 I could get a Pentium P4 box OR for a little more $350 > I can get an Athlon 64 3500 box. > > (The prices and choices are on the novatech web site) www.novatech.co.uk > > Your opinions on the best box are appreciated. If the choice is between a Sempron and a Celeron, the Sempron is the one to get. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
