Intel P4 vs AMD

Bear (no pun intended) with me, I'm working on it!

 

theonejrs

I see that you have your images working. LOL

 

I would have a 400W THX setup except I only have a bedroom barely measuring 10ft x 10ft. SO 129W 4.1 will have to do.

 

sammorris

That's about the same size as my computer room. LOL

 

Yes, but if i have music at a reasonably loud volume, then everyone in the house can hear it, so there's no point...

 

BroBear & Sophocles,

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! Success rears it's ugly head!

Sophocles,

I completely mis-understood the purpose of the forward slash. In addition I was trying to copy the graphic from your post instead of the URL from Image Shack! DUH!!! Good thing dombness isn't contagious. I'de have this forum down in a week! Sorry bout that! pretty neat pic, I think!

Thanks Again for bailing my sorry butt out,

theonejrs

 

sammorris

I'm not happy until my neighbors can hear it. LOL

 

LOL.
Oh and by the way, that's a helluva lot of effort to advertise a PCI FX5200. No offense meant, but I personally wouldn't want to advertise it.

 

I haven't owned a PCI vid card since AGP became available.

 

sammorris,
No offense taken. I just thought it was a neat pic. As a basically inexpensive video card, and for what I use this computer for the 5200 works well. I have both the PCI and AGP 8x versions. It's a lot better than the old Trident 1 or 2 meg cards we used when building base systems years ago and about the same price. Maybe I'll work it over with Photo Shop 7 and remove some of the text!

theonejrs

 

sammorris,
Is this better???

Sophocles,

Thanks to you and BroBear

theonejrs

 

I remember the old days when Voodoo cards reigned supreme. I still have a 2000 and 3000 PCI versions in my archive.





How well did they rank in 1999? LOL

http://www.techspot.com/reviews/hardware/voodoo3-3000/index.shtml

 

opps, screwed up. let me try again

 

This is making me mad!!!

 

Sophocles, I went back and edired the graphic, launched Image hack and re-hosted it. Now it won't work??? HELP!!!

theonejrs

 

sammorris,

Hope this is better! I don't get that excited over video cards but like I said, I like the pic.

theonejrs

 

theonejrs

Some sites won't allow for image leaching and you also have to make sure that you get the right URL.

 

I still have and use a VooDoo dual processor 5500. I get nostalgic just looking at it.

 

Sophocles

LOL Look in the mirror. For that matter, look at a mirror image of the word. Don't pay attention to backwards letters. LOL Or... just spell naciremA backwards.

 

Sophocles,

Well, I've set the CPU to 3.50 and it runs sweet. This will probably be my final stop for this one. Temps look good (for an Intel). It hit 60C during the benchmarks but cooled right down after the Arithmatic test. System idles at 48-49C. I finally figured out what it cost me to build. I got all the reciepts together and it came to less than $500 (USD). The biggest reason is that I assembled all the oarts when they were on sale and when I had all the parts, I built it. Now I'm sorry that I didn't just skip the Dell 3000 all together. This was better stock at 3.0.

I want to thank the people in this forum, especially Sophocles and BroBear for their help in teaching an old dog new tricks and for putting up with my dumbness. My only real complaint with my computer is that Asus put the audio connectors on the extreme back side of the MB so the wires for the front audio & mike plugs won't quite reach. Other than that, It's perfect. I wound up with a hell of a lot of computer for very little money.

Again, my thanks to all

theonejrs