Hi i'm interested in building a power machine, what the best can offer! can anyone help suggest what would be the most elite machine on the market is? i'm not worried about the cost. and maybe if there is anything to look out for in the future. thanks.
What do you want to use the machine for? Also, you do realize that no matter what you build right now, in a few months there will be newer technology.
I do believe in that, but how much power does an average user need. If I was you and the cost of it don't matter I would get 2 gb of ram, athlon 64 don't matter what it is rated at. Buy a motherboard with 4 ram slots, agp and some pci slots. A video card and an sata harddrive.
DO NOT BUY A MACHINE WITH AGP agp are being outdated, high spec agp cards are harder to come buy that pci express, if it was me an i had alot of money amd fx dual core 940 pin mobo 2 gb of ram nvidia 6800gt multiple sata drives runing raid 1
Read my sig. Change the GPUs to a couple of 7900GTs in SLi and your there. However, things to look out for. AMD AM2 socket 940 is just around the corner 6/6/06 apparently. These will enable AMDs to use DDR2 memory for the first time, and will be the start of the CPUs which will go to quad core next year. As for GPUs, then Nvidia are bringing out the G80 core later this year, this should be DirectX 10 compatible, which the present card are not.
would it be worth waiting for the quad core to come out next year, as well as the new directx 10 video cards before i upgrade?
Probably not worth waiting for the quad core, as they could be delayed for any length of time. If you aim to go down that route, then just wait for the am2 to come out and go for what ever cpu you want to get you up and running. I imagine that the 1st quad cores will be the best part of a £1000 so I won't be going down that route on day one. It is probably worth the wait for the G80 if you plan to use Vista in the near future, so go for a more modest card in the mean time.
what i'll do is get G80 when it comes out with the am2. thanks for the tip. this should keep me going for a couple of years.
The best idea would be (this summer when they're out) Socket AM2 FX-62 4x1GB Corsair XMS RAM 2x150GB Western Digital Raptor (RAID 0 or 1) As for the graphics, I'm not sure, Crossfire's better atm because it's more compatible and produces a better image, but if you want a small handful of extra percent then go SLi. The G80 and R600 are out in the not too distant future.
i was just wondering if it was worth looking into the new intel concor or would the am2 fx-62 still be the more powerful choice? thanks.
The Conroe processor, whilst promising will still be beaten by the FX-62 when that's released. The only benchmarks we've seen were doctored in favour of the Conroe, and it didn't beat the FX-60 by a majorly impressive margin. With fully supported DDR2 Memory, the FX-62 will go far.
would i be able to look at a website regarding the new fx-62? could u tell which site that is? thanks.
There's no particular website I can think of that's remarkably better than any other, google FX-62 and see what comes up. Mike's hardware is a good roadmap site that should list it (http://www.mikeshardware.co.uk)
June 6th is the estimated date for the FX-62, and it'll perform about the area of an Athlon64 X2 5600+.
