P4????????

[Guest]

I'm getting a computer custom made but I dont' know what CPU to get i was thinking about getting a P4 1.4 gig or 1.5. Or should i wait till the new P4 comes out??

thanx

 

[wapaaga]

you ahould wait for the new socket to come out, so can upgrade your system later
also you mee want to think about the fact that they are going to replace the p4 early next year(aleast thats what i have heard reading around in here)


i would personal wait for teh polmino (i hope i spelled it right)

 

[Arrow]

I would actually recommend the Thunderbird.

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[Guest]

thanx

Lets say i want a extreme gaming computer what CPU would you guys go with? If price wasnt a factor.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by dak23 on 01/27/01 12:44 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Guest]

Ummm...I'd buy the P4. Costs lots more, performs worse. But hey, it does say Intel Pentium 4 on it so you're bound to impress friends and family.

 

[scarecrow]

Not considering the price of both the proccesor & memory the P4 is awsome.

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[Grizely1]

No, without considering money the p4 still sucks.

 

[Guest]

No logical person would buy a P4. Unless Quake 3 is all you care about. The price/performance of the P4 is terrible. Even if the P4 outperformed the Athlon I still wouldn't buy it because it uses RDRAM. As long as other memory exists I will never buy any computer that puts one penny in the RAMBUS coffers.

 

[AmdMELTDOWN]

you wanna know what's funny, if you ever owned a nintendo system then you got rdram, if you have the PS2, that also has RDRAM! there's rdram in hdtv's now!

Rambus will get you! hahahaha!


- Amd Meltsdown -

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by AmdMeltdown on 01/27/01 08:55 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Arrow]

Let's see some DDR in there!

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[SoulReaper]

Whats wrong with u people? don't you read tom's reviews? RDAM is a dinosaur. Expensive and acutally slower than SDRAM. The P4 sux for performance. An Athlon 1ghz beats a 1.4ghz P4. If you want a "real" computer buy an Athlon. You'll save yourself a grand, and you'll have three times the system.

--SR

 

[Grizely1]

You wanna know whats <i>really</i> funny? XBox will use DDR SDRAM, my computer will use DDR SDRAM, and some new servers wil use DDR SDRAM!

DDR SDRAM WILL GET YOU AHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[yoda271828]

And unfortunately if Rambus wins it's court cases they will get royalties from all that DDR-SDRAM.

 

[Grizely1]

Yep. But the worst thing it can do is slow down the DDR production because RAMBUS will never sell that much anymore. I think they will eventually go out of busines unless they make their memory dirt cheap.