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"Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:34:59 -0500, "Quixote" <quixote@writeme.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Randy Graham" <ragmanx@spamex.com> wrote in message
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>>>I am going AMD, with NVidia SLI chipset. I plan on going dual core,
>>> 64-bit. Can I get the motherboard and go non-dual core now, and
>>> upgrade to a dual core later, or do I have to have a dual core from
>>> the start? I think the former, but haven't studied it much,
>>>
>>> With that out of the way, which motherboard do I get?
>>>
>>> Feeeeeed me, Seymour.
>>>
>>> RagManX
>>> http://www.gamepatches.info/ - Are you up to date?
>>
>>Good questions. I have always been Intel, and was holding out for their
>>64
>>bit/dual core chips before next upgrade, but that is looking dimmer each
>>day, and AMD looking brighter.
>
> I try not to be a fanboy of any particular vendor. I went that rout
> with 3Dfx and got burned ultimately.
>
> Now I look at the benchmarks, stats, reviews and overall reputation of
> the vendor. The best one at the time I have cash in hand is the winner
> of the money.
>
> For the past 5 years AMD has found a home in my cases. Not because of
> vendor loyalty. But because they had the best performance for the
> dollar spent.
>
> AMD is a good choice. I helped an older guy at the Gulfport Armed
> Forces Retirement Home build an Athlon64 3200+ system last fall. It
> was cool to see how fast 32bit Windows XP ran under it. Photoshop
> applied filters faster than I had seen before. He signed up for the
> 64-bit beta, but I didn't get to see how a 64-bit XP ran personally.
>
> When I asked him why he wanted a 64 bit system, he honestly replied
> that it was for bragging rights. He just wanted to have the fastest
> computer in the Home.
Must be nice to be retired!
>
My main reason for Intel was that I started building my systems back with
the Pentium 100 MHz. Back then there was no other chip maker really, and I
got into a system of upgrading and doing hand-me-downs for the other family
members starting with the wife, then the kids in order of age. We have all
had our own machines for years, and need of power and innovation tapered
down on the scale. In order to keep the system working required obviously
Intel based boards and chips. With fewer kids at home now that is less an
issue, as is the gain of speed in recent chips slowing down in increment
jumps these days. I may just build my first AMD system when it comes to
laying the cash down.
Quixote