So... Do I stay with AMD or make the move to INTEL???

[LukeBird]

lol, I had some other ones, but they weren't forum appropriate!

Likewise! 😀

 

[quanger]

Keep the current system you have. If I were you, try to make sure that it is not a faulty PSU. If your PSU is ok, I would look at the MOBO.

I would even change it as well since DFI LP 790fx MB are awesome, OC well and priced very well. It also supports future upcoming phenom processors as well should you decide to upgrade. You can always ebay you x2 6000+.

I just bought the DFI MB and its pretty good. I will attempt to OC next week and if the reviewers are correct, I should hit 3.5ghz without a sweat.

 

[caamsa]

@ Caamsa

Did you not get enough sugar this morning - or was it the lack of attention you recieved as a child?

Its basically like you posting a question to decent users on a forum and me replying with "blah blah blah random 'witty' flame blah blah your mom". Just not valuable or helpful at all.

So, if you have nothing of value to say, not even to comment on the off topic about the 3.5ghz phenom, then please for the love of god post elsewhere.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I already told you what to do. Fix it!...............for your reading pleasure.


http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=183025

 

[caamsa]

He's just upset because you're having a problem with a system based on his favorite company, so he wants to blame you.

If it was an Intel system he'd be blaming Intel for making crappy parts and then go on about how Intel execs eat aborted fetuses.

I see you are off your medication again


So when are you gonna drop that system of yours......? I have an old socket A in the garage you can have. 😀

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

So when are you gonna drop that system of yours......? I have an old socket A in the garage you can have. 😀

ROFL. That was low! Below the belt! Pick on me, but leave my system out of it! I suppose I had that coming though!

 

[caamsa]

ROFL. That was low! Below the belt! Pick on me, but leave my system out of it! I suppose I had that coming though!

Forgive me O great Factboy 😀

Your system is still decent. Hell the only thing I see myself upgrading in the next year is this video card. I might not go with a full cpu upgrade until some time late in 2009.

I gotta keep my priorities straight.

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

I hear ya. I want to upgrade so bad but all that "money" stuff is preventing me.

Hopefully AMD will have some stuff that's more on par, I wouldn't mind upgrading to them in the future.

I had my main hard drive die on me, it was an old 80-giger. I got two 320 gb Barracudas on order at newegg now. I'm going to RAID0 them, against my better judgement, and see if I can get some new life in my old system.

 

[vonbose]

If I were you I would get the DFI Lanparty 790FX board and reinstall windows. I've been running this board for a month now and it's amazing. I've overclocked my 5000 black to 3.2 gigs on 1.3 volts and the board is future proof for newer quad cores, once they become more mainstream.

 

[Hellboy]

I hear ya. I want to upgrade so bad but all that "money" stuff is preventing me.

Hopefully AMD will have some stuff that's more on par, I wouldn't mind upgrading to them in the future.

I had my main hard drive die on me, it was an old 80-giger. I got two 320 gb Barracudas on order at newegg now. I'm going to RAID0 them, against my better judgement, and see if I can get some new life in my old system.

nooooo

Raid 0 aint worth it...

I thought the same move as you then i realised the errors of my ways...

Data recovery on a raid 0 is not as easy as a single drive...

Has your 80 totally died, if it still spins use easy recovery pro from Ontrack.

Imho i would have got a 750 or a TB drive with 32mb cache and it will sing like a fairy under a road roller...


moving on...

Im comming round to the AMD 9850be... I would be faster if games would work with it, but as games and applications work well with Dual core at their best and Intels quad core is a doubled dual core then i guess it would make more sense..

Shame really AMD chips a bit ahead of its times.. But its the software that runs now that counts..

By the time Nehalem comes out maybe we will have the applications to make the most out of it...

 

[wilsonkf]

All that about budget. Low on budget - AMD, high on budget - Intel, especially you are using an AMD platform.

Whether it can be upgraded - actually, this is another budget problem, right?

BTW chipsets for AMD platform suck on RAID 0, shown by some test reports. Just cannot catch up the transfer rate of two fast disks in one or two years.

WTF if you hit the middle - i.e. US$200 for mobo and US $200 for CPU? Throw a dice.

I meet the same problem when my PC died recently. I am tight on budget, and I have to drop the plan to wait for new Intel platform and go for AMD.

Too bad that the good old time of plugging a 6x86 into 430TX (OK, and risk frying either) has gone.

 

[Guest]

My current build is awesome but keeps giving me random problems such as bios hangs and BSODs even random resets from time to time. Im pretty skilled at PC builds and have tried to pinpoint the issue for so long now without success that im just over it. The main problem being the inconsitency with the errors so tough to diagnose. Im not even O/Cing.

5:1 says this is a memory issue. Ever let memtest x86 run over night, booted from CD? I had every one of these issues (including strange BIOS hangs) and it turned out to be bad timing and voltage detection on my memory, combined with 4 sticks of RAM consisting of 2 different types which had incompatible timings and voltages.

The BSOD's were different every time and I even replaced a hard drive because I kept getting errors on the HD. The memory issues were causing bad block writes...

Here is a guide to using this tool http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38201

You probably don't need any new hardware.

-Viz

 

[rolli59]

Look at the dates people if OP is still having problems I would be very surprised.