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need advice , athlon or pentium?
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15. November 2004 @ 17:07 |
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hey yall. its time for me to get with the year 2004 and upgrade my Pentium 3, 128 MB of memory, 20 gig computer, (pitiful huh? lol) to a 512 MB or memory, 160 gig computer. but heres my problem. I can either get an AMD Athlon 3000 or a 2.6 ghZ Pentium 4. the good thing about my Pentium 3 is that it never overheats, i once left it on for 1 week straight downloading Naruto episodes and it was still working perfect. i plan to do photograph editing( photoshop)and watching movies and of course, backing up my dvds. the pentium is about $60 more, which computer would you choose.
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ddp
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16. November 2004 @ 05:48 |
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it is the same as do you like white bread or brown bread. some people prefer amd & others intel. if you had no problem with intel stay with intel just like if you had an amd instead of intel than you'll probably stay with amd. your the one who is going to spend the money so it's up to you & what you are going to do with that computer not us
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16. November 2004 @ 07:03 |
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im thinking of going with athlon just to try something different, its reputation is good from i researched, its just that, i dont do much gaming on my pc and athlon is meant for gaming, im just asking what YOU, would choose
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ddp
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16. November 2004 @ 07:14 |
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me i went with intel & sold over a dozen systems & upgrades with p4-1.7 to 2.4a & celeron
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16. November 2004 @ 09:00 |
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AMD Athelon 64bit is going to over run Intel p4 in the near future...real near, so I would go with AMD
But like -ddp- said "if you had no problem with intel stay with intel"
Just read up more on it and make your choice.
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16. November 2004 @ 09:52 |
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thanks you all, i decided to go with the athlon
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Praetor
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17. November 2004 @ 18:46 |
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AMD Athelon 64bit is going to over run Intel p4 in the near future...real near
That, I assure you, will NEVER happen. Well not in the next 5 years. :D
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thanks you all, I decided to go with the athlon
Good call :)
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AfterDawn Addict
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18. November 2004 @ 04:17 |
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I got inside info with intel since my mumm is an engineer there at intel so it will a tug of war right now with amd athelon and for amd athelon will win...for now
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Streamcod
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19. November 2004 @ 16:19 |
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AMD64bit is the real engine not like Intel'nuts
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20. November 2004 @ 12:43 |
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ill go for the xp 3200 fsb 400,512kb cache 2.2ghz it really fast. also the xp 2800+ (which a have) runs faster than de p4 2.8 cpu.
Dr.xp
abit nf7
athlon xp 2800+ oc to 3200+
gigabyte 3d cooler pro max speed (4400rpms)
with artic silver 5
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24. November 2004 @ 05:47 |
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really? thats cool. so im assuming that my xp 3000 2.2 Ghz is faster than a P-4 2.8 ghz?
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24. November 2004 @ 18:30 |
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hello hd517 athlon 3000+ (make sure has a 400mhz fsb)
run faster than p4 2.8 by a thousand miles!!! and its better for gamming too!!.
i love amd they relly work good!
Dr.xp
Pentium D 805 2.66ghz
Foxconn 8400 GS 512 GDDR2 PCI-EX
2gb DDR2 Pc2-5300
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