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Taz -> RE: Hey bobby - AMD Vs Intel in a prize fight (11/30/2005 17:10:14)
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ORIGINAL: BobbyDouglas you might not see the performance as much as I will. It ALL depends on what programs you are using. Bryce, Paintshoppro, Fireworks, Editplus or Frontpage, McAfee, WinMX + MXmoni, Trillian, winamp all at once usually. quote:
Having read a few reviews on some AMD/ASUS boards I hear the chipset fans suck the big sweaty ones. quote:
- Chipset fans? You mean CPU fans? No, I mean: Example review; "One point; the norhtbridge fan is currently noisy (spins fast)" & a lot of people were mentioning dead/dying/very loud fans and needing to be replaced, which is no drama as it means I can gucci that up with something from Zalman. quote:
A lot of people argue that OCing doesn't hurt anything, but the truth is, it runs hotter. If you can get a really nice Zalaman fan/heatsink for the CPU, you will be able to OC it a lot better than most people. Also, people have said they OCed their 3800+ to the 4400+ speeds. Not interested in OC'ing at the moment, I want it running like a raver on all the good class A's outa the box before I even need to entertain the idea of OC'ing it to get some radical performance and turn up the heat inside and cook parts that just cost me the price of a new kidney. quote:
For the motherboard, take a look at the MSI Neo4 Platinum. They have an SLI and non SLI version. If you want to run dual video cards, you need the SLI. /noted Only 3 reviews on it, will investigate further. quote:
If I could go back and make a change to my system, I would have got a motherboard that supports dual PSUs, and then a case that does as well. You should be able to run 4 hard drives, 2 dvd players, x2 4400+ cpu, and 4 sticks of ram without any issues on a single good PSU, however, your video card requires quite a bit of power. I almost upgraded to the 7800GT or GTX version, but since I knew I would max out my hard drives, I decided not to, just for power consumption worries. I am looking at one of these 2 for my next PSU for the big machine: 1st choice - http://www.enermax.co.uk/products/psu/liberty/ELT620AWT/index.asp 2nd choice - http://www.thecoolingshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=1904 I will be running: whatever CPU Chip and 4 sticks of RAM 1 X DVD-RW & 1 X CD-RW 3 pairs of SATA drives RAID'd together (RAID O prolly), possibly 4 sets if I get a MOBO with 8 ports on it. 1 Graphics card will prolly suffice as I am not into the masive graphic games such as the FPS lot, I play stuff like Patrician III sometimes though, so nothing mad or chaotic required in the graphics department is required, unless I feel it may be worth it just to p*ss my mate off with bragging rights. [8D] Or there is a good reason for having 2. Some internal lighting rig and a sh1tload of fans to keep the heat down. Currently have 5 X 80mm fans, 2 X sets of dual HDD fans. All going in my Antec Plusview 1000AMG case
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