Wondering if someone could kindly give me advice on the advantages of getting one or the other of the following,
AMD Athlon64 4000 San Diego Retail Socket 939 (£250)
Intel Pentium4 650[3.4,RET,775 2MB] (£200)
I'm planning to order a new computer next week, and have been trying to catch up on latest hardware, and have pretty much nailed the CPU to one of these.
Will be using the computer for all sorts of things, and will be playing games too so am making sure its pretty powerful. But no video editing or statistical analysis etc.
Essentially the question is which of the two chips are better? i.e. is the AMD worth the extra £50?
Also I read that the AMD does not support DDR2, does this actually make much difference?
Acutally if you want the 'specialists' here can help me decide on the rest of the stuff too, at the moment I am planning for the graphics card to be,
Club3D GeForce 7800GTX 256MB PCI-E (£352)
But have seen Leadtek WinFast 7800GTX TDH EXTREME 256MB PCI-E (£382), again is this card worth the extra 30? and what does the Extreme mean?
Speakers planning to get Creative I-Trigue 5600 5.1 Speakers (£118) or Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers (£65), depending upon how much i feel like spending in the end.
The question relating to the speakers is that I see that most motherboards come with built in 7.1 sound... does this mean to get nice sounds out of these nice speakers that will be enough? I will be listening to music through these.. or can you really tell the difference with a sound card installed?
If so which of these would do the job (would rather not spen too much on the sound card..)
Creative S/B Audigy SE 7.1 OEM (£18)
Creative Labs SB Audigy 4 7.1 OEM (£43)
Is there much difference?
Could someone also recommend a good motherboard for this setup? (with S-ATA enabled for the HDD and will be putting in about 2GB of RAM)
Lots of questions, please feel free to answer which ever one you want... but main one being the CPU choice.
Many Thanks!
AMD Athlon64 4000 San Diego Retail Socket 939 (£250)
Intel Pentium4 650[3.4,RET,775 2MB] (£200)
I'm planning to order a new computer next week, and have been trying to catch up on latest hardware, and have pretty much nailed the CPU to one of these.
Will be using the computer for all sorts of things, and will be playing games too so am making sure its pretty powerful. But no video editing or statistical analysis etc.
Essentially the question is which of the two chips are better? i.e. is the AMD worth the extra £50?
Also I read that the AMD does not support DDR2, does this actually make much difference?
Acutally if you want the 'specialists' here can help me decide on the rest of the stuff too, at the moment I am planning for the graphics card to be,
Club3D GeForce 7800GTX 256MB PCI-E (£352)
But have seen Leadtek WinFast 7800GTX TDH EXTREME 256MB PCI-E (£382), again is this card worth the extra 30? and what does the Extreme mean?
Speakers planning to get Creative I-Trigue 5600 5.1 Speakers (£118) or Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers (£65), depending upon how much i feel like spending in the end.
The question relating to the speakers is that I see that most motherboards come with built in 7.1 sound... does this mean to get nice sounds out of these nice speakers that will be enough? I will be listening to music through these.. or can you really tell the difference with a sound card installed?
If so which of these would do the job (would rather not spen too much on the sound card..)
Creative S/B Audigy SE 7.1 OEM (£18)
Creative Labs SB Audigy 4 7.1 OEM (£43)
Is there much difference?
Could someone also recommend a good motherboard for this setup? (with S-ATA enabled for the HDD and will be putting in about 2GB of RAM)
Lots of questions, please feel free to answer which ever one you want... but main one being the CPU choice.
Many Thanks!
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