The New PC Q&A

Originally posted by Ryu
- Pentium 4 2.4GHZ CPU

Ouch, that\'s gonna be expensive... I\'d suggest overclocking a smaller P4 if you\'re up to it. Unless you have so much money you could wipe your butt with it.

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Originally posted by Samwise
Ouch, that\'s gonna be expensive... I\'d suggest overclocking a smaller P4 if you\'re up to it. Unless you have so much money you could wipe your butt with it.

Or just buy the cheaper and easier to overclock AMD chips.

AMD cant hit 2.6

hell , they had to resort to false advertising to get people to buy thier product

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Not quite, comparin intel and amd mhz isn\'t fair anymore. The chips are too different. And quite frankly intel cheated by making their pipeline deeper than the grand canyon.

However, they used benchmarks like SPEC to get this number scheme of theirs, if they would just get more people to support it, say Motorola it just might catch on.

Since this thread is about computers I have a few questions myself.  



You see, sometime this fall, I plan on upgrading my current system from a 1.4ghz amd to a 1.73ghz amd ahtlon XP.  


Well, with my current motherboard, would it be best for me to buy my stuff from pricewatch.com?    Heres what im looking to upgrade. I\'m open for suggestions from you pc techies



-New motherboard- Has to be an AMD, or should i change it into a P4 based CPU?

Ram-how do i tell what kind of ram I can get for the motherboard?  Im assuming I should get DDR ram? If so, is 2 sticks of 256 enough, or should I go for 1 stick of 512mb?

Harddrive-- I already have a 40gb HD, but I want to add another one to the current one, perhaps much larger in scale too.  Im aiming for over 100gb HD.  Which one should i get? Western Digital?

Video card- This is a no brainer, I really want the Geforce4, but Im looking at the Raedon 8500, since its cheaper, which one will give me more bang for my buck?

Anything im missing, please fill me in.


Thanks a ton guys.

Or just buy the cheaper and easier to overclock AMD chips.

If I didn\'t leave my computer on 24/7 and require the cooler solution that Intel offers, then I would definitely go with AMD.  As it stands though, for what I am looking for, there is just no comparison.

I\'ll post more later, I gotta get to class