Intel vs. AMD

sammorris,
who the hell was that?????

 

I have no idea, but any more posts like that and we won't be seeing him again any time soon...

 

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big time!!!!!!

 

And his third post... dear dear. Start as you mean to go on?

 

theone,
you won't regret the DFI board if it's anything like mine.Damn they're fun,and the list of different bios versions to suit different ram is a bonus too!Plus theyr'es some helpful info on the DFIstreet website with regards to power suplies, memory, bios revisions etc.
This is a power supply recommendation forum:

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10854

and the homepage:

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/index.php

 

I still have'nt broken 30 secs with super pi 1m.Just ran it then at stock .....44secs!!14 seconds difference.

 

I'll have to try that when I get round to it, one of the benches I've yet to try.

 

OMG

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/570_341061.html

great spec at a low price and a decent gc.

 

Reasonable spec at a reasonable price and a pretty damn slow Graphics card. Barely faster than an X600 Pro.
That's £600, my PC was £1250, but would now cost about £1050 right?

it's the same CPU but less RAM so add £60 to make 2GB, now £660.
It's a cheapo graphics card worth about £40, so add £180 to get to the level of my card, that's £840.
Same storage as my big drive, but no raptor so add £75, that's £915.
A cheap case that would cost £20, so add £65 to reach the level of mine, that's £980.
Stock cooler so add £25, that's £1005
Standard OEM power supply so add £50, that's £1055
onboard audio so add £20, that's £1075
Obviously a standard PC won't have UV lighting, external S-ATA, a fan controller and all that, so add another £50, since that's what I paid. It will also have an OEM mobo, so add another £20 to reach the spec of mine, we're now at £1145.

By comparison, that system's £120 overpriced on my build, if you get what I mean...

 

put it this way.....it would beat my ati radeon 9000
and probably a nvidia 7400 and 7600 go

 

Not a 7600Go I wouldn't have thought, but all of those bar the 7600 are lame cards, really.

 

i dont think i need like a stock cooler,new case,new audio and i certainly dont need fan control etc.plus does your pc have a remote control and can it record live tv?

 

That's a fair point, but do you understand my argument? £600 for that sort of system is quite a lot really, as would anything from PC world.

 

LOL, at his first post! Swift work!

 

pc world?

its from comet and you are right pc world are massively overpriced.i think its a good price but ill find a pc that is top of the range and well so what you have to say

 

Sorry, comet! LOL I'm in dumbass-mode today! Yeah comet aren't too bad, but you'd still get a far better machine if you built it yourself. Let's try from the other way round, how much would it cost to make that system?

 

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/568_346756.html

right much better with viiv technology.also i get your point about pcs being dearer(and can build them better yourself)but its the little extras you get with manufactures eg layout,remote controls,bluetooth.btw sammorris what os do you have?

 

Only XP Home at the moment, I couldn't easily make boot floppies to run an <ahem, well enough said about that> copy of XP Pro since my old PC no longer has a floppy drive, the Qtec PSU toasted that. This new one does, but with my old decommissioned P3 in a state of operating system limbo (no certificate of authenticity!) that's also out of use, so I borrowed someone's XP home disc.

 

Are you kidding? That costs almost as much as my PC is worth and it still has that 7500LE!!!!! I know it comes with a 17" TFT, but they don't cost the difference between a 7500LE and an X1900XT, and in any case, it only has a D945 too. Bah! my X2 would handsomely beat a D945 any day.