i found 2 motherboards +cpu which one will be faster with say 1 gb ram .i cant make up my mind. one is 2.66ghz and other is 1.9 ghz i would think that the 2.66 ghz would be faster but with everything changing i am not sure . http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813135039 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128322 AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Brisbane 1.9GHz Socket AM2 Processor Model ADO3600IAA5DL - OEM or Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 Processor Model HH80551PE0672MN - OEM
the truth is that either of those cheap combo deals will have it's problems. Did you read the users comments on them. The AMD had a comment about the PCI-E slot saying it was 16X but only running at 8X The Intel had a comment that it did not fully support the Core2Duo both of those would scare me away from buying them. Personally i think if your going to build one, then save up and get something nice like: MSI 975X Platinum Power Up Edition motherboard Core2Duo 2.13 MHz processor (or above but you can overclock this to 2.5 per core, so 5MHz total easy) XFX GeForce 7600GT graphics card Enermax 620 watt power supply 2GB of Crucial Technologies 667 RAM (dual channel) a nice Gigabyte Poseidon case and so on.
Go with the intel. If you can get one of the new Core2Duos though. If you buy a Pentium D, the moment you get it home you'll already be out of date. Obviously you're building a budget box but you don't want your board to be "low" quality. Spend an extra $40 bucks on it if you can.
Logik666 quote >>Spend an extra $40 bucks on it if you can. what motherboard can i get for $40 more that will run AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Brisbane 1.9GHz Socket AM2 Processor Model ADO3600IAA5DL . i would like a board with 2 x ATA100 up to 4 Devices and also Onboard Video Chipset. found 2 of them . asus or the msi ? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130065 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131014 will i be able to hook up a regular moniter to either of these boards
Dual cpu/multiprocessing speed? That's an interesting subject. On first glance you would think it comes down to raw cpu cycles per second, whereas in reality more depends on how much time is spent doing the number crunching, and how much waiting for the different operations to complete.. i.e one cpu waiting for information from the other. You can't benchmark multiprocessor machines with a single threaded operating system. It's very possible that there will be no performance penalty for less cycles per second if the software is optimised for the number of processes, and things are timed to arrive just as needed (or cached leaving the cpu to get on with something else) As things stand most to these "dual core" systems seem to be a bit of a con. I like to set up clusters using old pentium and 486 series machines. Performance varies widely on a day by day basis. For some applications (like avi encoding) a cluster of 8 486 (40 MHz) machines will outstrip a twin 600 as long as the software is optimised for the number of processors. Most of the time there is not much performance gain over a single cpu because...lets be honest.. most software is only written for 1 processor.
thats very interesting janrocks but it seems a tad off topic. yes both of these boards have vga and dvi outputs so you can plug them in to crt and lcd screens. good for now good for the future.
actually, my Core2Duo system is much better than my Dell Single core Pentium system was. here is a good site for CPU testing. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2795&p=15
i am not really a big gamer ! so could care less . all i really want to do is run say nero recode and be able to do other things as surf ie . someone tells me if i use task manager and set afinaty to the first core for nero and set afinity for ie to second core i will see a difference compared to my amd xp 2400 2.0 ghz /768 ram.is it if you know how to use this dual core u will be ok ? its driving me crazy one say its faster others say it almost the same as single core. janrocks made a good point on avi encoding / my other problem! btw this one will have 2 gb ram when i run vso convert to dvd cpu is at %100 and i cant do much of any thing else will this dual core let me run vso convert to dvd and still be able to surf ie ? if so i am buying one
you whould need a dual core os also, most os's like lunix can do more than one cpu.i think windows xp 64bit ed. might be able to do more than one cpu at a time.don't now about windows xp pro. and i know windows xp home can't do moore than one cpu.and any thing under windows xp. why do you think they just came out with a new windows os.
Well Depends you can set it in task magaer to use say "CPU 1" Encoding will go slower as its as if you were encoding with a 2.3ghz P4 if you set it to both then it would encode faster but CPU will be at 100% another tyhing Games well most are still single core apps which means if it needs a 3ghz CPU a 3ghz pentium 4 would perform better because it would only use one of your cpu cores which are not 3ghz making the game lag. Operating Systems that support x64. Windows Professional 64bit ed Widnows Vista Collection (All of them) Linux Think about everything I was going to buy a Core 2 Extreme 3 months ago but when a Figuured "Hey I play alot of games that need cpu's 2.8ghz+ to run smooth" I said No. My current specs,I reckon they are good they do everything. 3.4ghz Cedar Mill Pentium 4 with HT 2048MB DDR 2 PC3200 320gb+100gb SATA HDD's 7200rpm 2x Phillips 16x DVD+_R/RW 5.1 Creative Soundblaster Ageia Physx 5.1 Logitech Speakers. 800W PSU Radeon X1900XTX 512MB. And with that I can run very good looking games on high like Ghost Recon Advanced warfighter,Oblivion (I hate it),Flight Simulator X. so you have to think about it?.
