Help me decide

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:58 pm

The tax man cometh and this year he has to pay me so its time to upgrade this ole heep and spend some cash. Ive got my eye on 2 chips so far the amd 3200+ or the p4 3.0 ghz. All i need is some opinions on which and why, and most of all a mobo. I do want to overclock but its not that big a deal now. I just want something super stable and fast for gaming which is pretty much all i do. Thanks for any help

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:46 am

I'd recommend a 64-bit CPU no matter what.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:03 am

a64 is far faster

Greg

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:01 pm

ok im sold on the 64 now how bout a mobo? I figure im gonna get a new pci-e video card too so any help there is appreciated as well.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:22 pm

the dfi lanparty boards are rated the fastest for the a64's but I dont know about the pci-e...as I dont have one yet.

Greg

PClark99 · Post by **PClark99** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:34 pm

If you don't want to spend alot of cash but want a good motherboard, I suggest one of these.

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDe ... 491&depa=1

Have one in the wife's machine and it rocks.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:11 am

I now have two AMD 64 bit cpu machines at home and both are seemingly WAY faster than the new P4 2.8 ghz machines that we now have at work. To me, the P4 machines seem to run very slow in comparison, like click......wait........oh, there it goes whereas mine are seemingly instant. No, I havent bothered to run speed testing programs to do an actual scientific test but it does seem that obvious.

Dime Bag Dave · Post by **Dime Bag Dave** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:46 pm

For desktop. go A64. 1MB cache

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:21 pm

Well i wound up getting a A64 3500+

MSI k8n neo4 Platinum board

MSI 660GT 128m PCI-E video

Got it all in today and tomorrow is format c time