The Official Budget-Conscious Dream Machine!

Have a read through this:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article692-page1.html

 

@sammorris after reading the review from tomshardware...yes it is much slower than intel quad or even dual core cpu...but still its cheap for a quad core tho...

 

Heh, it is in the US, not so in the UK by the looks of things.

 

http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase21.2&prodID=1454491


hell of a lot cheaper than rip off overclockers lol

 

That's a pretty impressive price!

 

Yeh best i have found so far, I dont realy think we will see the true performance of these until we see them on a better revised am2+ motherboard.

they have a lot of motherboard revisions and bios updates to contend with as the intels are more mature in these respects, give them a few months and I think with a few better optimised bioses the gap will be reduced. still in modern games theyre up there with the intel's. only time will tell.

 

lets hope so...hope it will narrow down between intel

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_q_9a4zDps

intresting little video

 

I'm going for the 2.6GHz model. I wonder if the M2N32-SLI will get a BIOS update ?_?

 

man...its been a long time...that someone still go for AMD even if its slower...hmm...or because its cheaper...

 

No sir. Not for any of those reasons

It's the fact that the new AMD processors ARE keeping up for the most part. Look at it this way: the Athlon 64 was way faster than the Pentium 4, but the Pentium 4 was still wildly popular. And I think that even though Intel may have the lead now, AMD will pull ahead again just like Intel did with the Core 2 Duo.

It's all about support for your "home team" so to speak. I am an AMD fan for life

 

oh yeah gotta agree...AMD fan for life...at one stage i was thinking of buying Intel...but it didn't feel right for me...and now Phenom is out, i'm going for that...

btw i've finished Crysis its sych an awesome game...i can run it with my powerful AMD Athlon 64 3500+...yeah!

oh are there any good AM2+ mobo...

 

So mister AMD fan for life, what CPU's in your main desktop right now? lol

 

No offense but I would not be a fan(It means Fanatic lol) of anyone. I'm impartial enough to buy whats best for my money. I'm not big into attaching emotions into big corporate money gobbling companies. Although if I had to pick a favorite these days it would be Microsoft. If I had to invest Stock it would be Nintendo.

Interesting thing about Nintendo. I told my dad to put a hundred thousand dollars on Nintendo when the stock was 20 bucks. He took me for a crazy kid, and the stock has more than tripled now.

 

Your favourite company would be Microsoft. Possibly the best example of your previous sentence. That baffles me...

 

Wait what baffles you? I like Microsoft, I love my Windows Mobike phone, I like Windows XP, and I love my xbox lol.

 

I regard most of Microsoft's products with a sort of loving contempt. I use Windows XP because it suits me better than any other OS, yet there are lots of things that annoy me about it. The 360 is poorly made, poorly designed and very noisy yet it's the only current gen console worth having, given our games taste. All the bugs and stupid little issues in Windows Office drive me insane, but I still prefer using it to OpenOffice. That's most of Microsoft's main trademarks covered. I can't comment on the Zune specifically, but my MP3 player is in fact the Zune's ancestor, the Toshiba gigabeat. It's a nice player, but Microsoft wrote the software for it and oh dear god is it crap.

 

Well let me tell you about the Zune. It's Awesome. That's just the right way to describe it. I love the new software, I love the player, it looks MUCH better than an iPod, functions better etc. The new iPod software(on the iPod itself, not iTunes) functions like running vista on a Pentium three, it's that sluggish. The Zune interface, on the other hand, is VERY smooth.

Oh and the most important things, the Zune sounds much better.

 

lol...mister AMD fan here is going to buy a Phenom X4...later on this year...

well i'll buy CPU with cheapest price...thats what i said before i was gonna buy Intel CPU but i know the new Phenom X4 will be out so i'm kinda hesitating to buy intel...now not anymore...or...um...little bit...don't know how cheap penryn will be tho...

oh i wonder how much Phenom FX will cost...and will it be faster then penryn or equal to?

 

I have both Intel and AMD I like both, but AMD was my first truly fast processor and it will be my last. I love my 4400+ to bits