Author Topic: Considering Upgrade: New Mobo suggestions? (Read 474 times)

LAWCobra · « **Reply #15 on:** March 25, 2004, 11:08:05 AM »

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Originally posted by Torque
Just make sure you buy vendor certified Ram, recently i bought two new Asus mobo they ran fine on generic 512 sticks of 400 ddr but with the aggressive timing now on the boards they both needed certified Ram to get 1g without hanging.

Just get ya some mushkin level2 pc3500 nad you will be all set.

OIO · « **Reply #16 on:** March 25, 2004, 08:03:40 PM »

ugh.

I think i need to rephrase my question

WHAT PROCESSOR should I use?

64 bit athlon or the P4 3.X ?

Which performs better for games

BlckMgk · « **Reply #17 on:** March 25, 2004, 09:45:30 PM »

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Originally posted by OIO
ugh.

I think i need to rephrase my question

WHAT PROCESSOR should I use?

64 bit athlon or the P4 3.X ? Which performs better for games

I've always considered this to be true, Intel for Multitasking, AMD for more power doing 1 task (a game). AMD doesn't have the GHz but they perform real well.

I'd suggest AMD for a gamer, and Intel for a secretary (hehe).

Pfunk · « **Reply #18 on:** March 25, 2004, 10:53:55 PM »

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Originally posted by OIO
ugh.

I think i need to rephrase my question

WHAT PROCESSOR should I use?

64 bit athlon or the P4 3.X ? Which performs better for games

As many others have said earlier, just wait a month or two now is not a good time to buy new equipment.

OIO · « **Reply #19 on:** March 26, 2004, 08:45:41 AM »

the coming changes are just in the socket type used. The question is still valid though.

a 64 bit AMD or a 32 bit P4 at higher clock speeds... which would perform better? (yes yes assume a good asus mobo on each with 1 gig of kickass ram from crucial.com)

Charon · « **Reply #20 on:** March 26, 2004, 10:56:19 AM »

Unless that money's just eating a hole in your pocket, it is time to wait. Or do like I did and get a cheap 400 mhz dual channel Nforce 2, good 400 mhz DDR good copper heatsing and easily overclock an AMD barton 2500 to 3.2. It will cost $250 - $300, but you're going to be paying far more than that as a premium [$700 -$900 CPU/MB, $150?] for the bleeding edge [out in front of gaming needs at least], and may have a difficult future upgrade path if you go bleeding edge today. IMO... (not my money

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Charon

Sox62 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 26, 2004, 11:16:04 AM »

Unless you REALLY need to upgrade right now,consider waiting until summer.

Motherboards with the new pciexpress video standard will be out.Even if that isn't your flavor,it should drive the current board prices down.

Gixer · « **Reply #22 on:** March 26, 2004, 04:05:17 PM »

Hope your not considering this upgrade for AH? As it certinly dosn't need it. The Graphics engine here is more dependent on CPU and hardly seems to even look at the graphics card.

No idea about AH2 graphic engine and although still in Beta I think the graphics to date other then the cockpit look terrible.

~~...-Gixer~~