Intel vs. AMD

Sorry, it double posted

 

theonejrs: Living in a small country has its advantages, lots of things arrive next day! That is, if the couriers can be bothered...
rick5446: Yeah a Sempron 3100+ isn't great if you had an XP 3200+ before (I presume, that's the only old 2.2Ghz chip I can think of, you wouldn't downgrade from the A64!) an XP 3200+

is about 3000 on the performance scale and a Sempron 3100+ about 2700, so 10% slower. 64-bit mind, but still slower.
Theone, rick: What you have to remember, the Sempron 32-bit Bartons were appalling, running about 600 "mhz" slower than their rated figure versus 200 for Athlon XPs, Sempron64s are

better, but only the higher ones, it'd take a Sempron64 3600+ to meet that Athlon XP 3200+, and for that money you can have an Athlon64 3700+ which would walk over it.
Baltekmi: I didn't noitce that most. Radial cooling isn't usual, cooler kits often do it, but rarely stock coolers. It doesn't help you realise better performance, but it'll let you overclock further, and also robably run quieter. That's useful.

 

i have found an intel core duo 2 extreme for 999us dollars aprx 1600au very expensive but anyone seen it cheaper besides ebay

 

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You'd pay that much for a CPU off ebay? I applaud that, I wouldn't go near it. Ebay is always going to be cheapest but it's $150 more at newegg, and when compared to ebay, that's not all that much.

 

i meant like i found it in a shop and at ebay it is cheaper but i dont really trust ebay on expensive parts so do youse know any places besides ebay that are cheaper then shop

 

Than what shop? What is the price we're trying to beat?

 

sonic computers at sydney and its 1600 thats about 1000us

 

That sounds very good to me. $1600AU is £645. It's £700-750 here. However, I make $1600AU to be $1220 US, which is $70 more than newegg...
I don't know many australian computer retailers I'm afraid...

 

dazila,ebay is completely safe.just buy from a reputable shop and you will be laughing if you have paypal buyer protection.so what u do is get the item then say goods not as described.you get the computer part and ur money back.

 

Except very often you don't because the seller can then cancel their account and disappear. Oh and He_Man, signiature's too big again!

 

maybe but most of the time not.they need the time to transfer funds to bank account.plus if its a shop on ebay with like over 6000 feedback its highley unlikely they will close down due to what..one person.i dont think so

 

He_Man,

Hate to burst your bubble as that all sounds nice, it just isn't true. I got nicked for $97+ when the person totally mis-represented what he was selling. In spite of presenting Ebay with the original add and in spite of the fact that I was supposed to be bidding on a laptop. What I got was a motherboard for a laptop. They didn't do a damn thing about it! There guarantee isn't worth the screen it's printed on! I cancelled my Ebay account and won't do any business there, ever again! They are so big, they just don't care. Like I said, all thier BS sounds good but it's still BS!

Happy Computering,
theone

 

that was just unlcuky.did u pay with paypal?

 

I'd agree with Russ, there are a LOT of rogue sellers out there. By all means I'd sell a component or computer on ebay but I'd never buy something I could afford to pay for and not get.

 

as i said before check the feedback.if they have good feedbakc then you cant go wrong.

 

Except when the feedback is fake.

 

no but check to see who left the feedback and how much feedback the person has.eg 1000(dont think they will have 1000 accounts)

 

You'd be surprised what people can manage.

 

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