On Monday 13 March 2006 05:23, JimD wrote: > Hey group, > > My trusty old computer died tonight :( I am stuck with my winders laptop > for a few days until I can get in a new mobo and processor. I am looking > at getting something like an AMD 64 or a Pentium D dual core. I can get > one of the two models below for a really good price on newegg. > > AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 800MHz HT Socket 754 > or > Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533MHz FSB 2 x 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual > Core,EM64T Processor >
go AMD. The memory access is much faster. And memory access is the major bottleneck. Also, the Opteron/amd64-athlons wipe the floor with the p4. There is no good reason to buy intel today. But... emm... I bought a Venive S939, 3200+ 1000MHZ HT for less than 130€ or so just 5Month ago. so you should get a much better CPU than you wrote for 150$ -- [email protected] mailing list
