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Solve : My mouse doesn't work in the purple hole?? |
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Answer» Just kidding. Just kidding. Only works with a PURPLE mouse, (just kidding). 1. No. 2. ? 3. ? If it's a 80W or 100W, does it make any difference? Everything you want to know: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor Quote If it's a 80W or 100W, does it make any difference? Does it? Beats me, I was just inquiring. Thanks for the link.What'd you choose: (Motherboard/videocard) MSI ASUS EPoX GigaByte (Processor) Opteron 64 (Server/Workstation, does it matter? They're cheap..) Athlon 64 (Videocard brand) Matrox (Expensive) ATI Nvidia I no longer purchase the latest technology and I'm not a gamer. Motherboard? I'm partial to Asus, because that's what I have now. It's a PIII-700 overclocked to 931MHz with absolutely no overheating or any other issues. It has been totally stable for many months, now. It's a Slot 1 MOBO with a Slot 1 to Socket 370 adapter. CPU fan is ArcticCooler P4 fan. Asus has a user Forum which is very helpful. CPU? Some kind of dual core. Any dual core cpu interests me. A few years ago, dual CPU's was the way to go. You could actually do a little gaming while burning a CD. Dual core cpu's accomplishes the same thing. Even WinNT4.0 supports dual processors. It's called SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing), which has been around for quite a while. Started out in very high end simulators, as in Flight Simulators. All new cpu's consume around 100W, which is why the cpu fan is critical. Video Cards? All you mentioned are very good. PCI-E seems to be the way to go. AGP will be history, soon. Cooling a high end beast is becoming increasingly difficult and many fans are loud and annoying.It will become a budget high-end PC that replaces: AMD XP Athlon +2800 (2.1Ghz) ATI/Radeon 9800Pro AGP (8X) 128mb Gigabyte 7N400Pro (Northbridge fan stops working when an AGP card is INSTALLED? Fun..) Quote All you mentioned are very good. PCI-E seems to be the way to go. AGP will be history, soon. My Thought exactly Even some of the 32MB videocards (PCI-E 16X) priced at 50 euros seem to be more powerful than my 9800Pro (AGP 8X) which costed 245 euros when it was new. Quote Cooling a high end beast is becoming increasingly difficult and many fans are loud and annoying. nothing can be worse than the computer I am looking to replace. The endless experimenting with fans and other (cheap, but noisy) heat solutions has costed me more than the PC was actually worth. And absolutely nothing has worked. Unless I want to sit next to a jet engine. Currently, I have found a compromise, but at the cost of stability. Quote Some kind of dual core. Any dual core cpu interests me I think I will buy an AMD 64 bit Athlon +3200, I'm not quite into multi tasking on a gamer PC. I can multitask fine with my 500Mhz P3 processor at the moment. Sort of. Just have to be careful not to crash explorer.exe.. How do you feel about Asrock? Quote AMD XP Athlon +2800 (2.1Ghz) I GUESS no more Gigabyte mobos for you? Quote How do you feel about Asrock? I know nothing about it. BTW, SMP is not the same as multi-tasking. SMP Short for Symmetric Multiprocessing, a computer architecture that provides fast performance by making multiple CPUs available to complete individual processes simultaneously (multiprocessing). Unlike asymmetrical processing, any idle processor can be assigned any task, and additional CPUs can be added to improve performance and handle increased loads. A variety of specialized operating systems and hardware arrangements are available to support SMP. Specific applications can benefit from SMP if the code allows multithreading. SMP uses a single operating system and shares common memory and disk input/output resources. Both UNIX and Windows NT support SMP. The net effect is improved multi-tasking. Quote I guess no more Gigabyte mobos for you? Bit of a dilemma, really. Quality is good, technical support is good, apart from the strange northbridge fan bug and some minor issues, I don't think there's a reason for me not to go with Gigabyte again. Although I am considering to buy an Asus mainboard. Would it matter if the chipset on the mainboard is of the same brand as the one on the videocard? (Nforce for Nvidia, ATI for ATI) Quote I know nothing about it. Asrock seems to be very cheap brand that has won quite a few awards.. At least, if you can believe their rather daft website: Asrock. So far I have made up my mind about the following parts: Quote Sapphire ATI Xpress 200P, Socket-939,ATX SATA, LAN, AC97, USB2.0, PCI-Ex16 -- I have seen Sapphire before, but only as a videocard brand selling ATI cards. I might as well give them a try. Plus, it comes with an ATI chipset. I can only begin to imagine how incompatible it is going to be with future products. Scrap that - Quote EPoX EP-9NPA7I, nForce4-4x, Socket-939 ATX, 4xS-ATA, LAN, Sound, PCI-Ex16 Seems much more favourable. Quote AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz Socket 939, 512KB, BOXED m/koeler -- I absolutely dislike AMD for their incredibly hot processors, but I read that Intel is including some type of Microsoft-only hardware fascist protection in their 64bit processors. So screw 'm, I'll go AMD again. |
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