Quick question: Building a new PC, AMD or Intel?

[smerf]

Hi,

@redrumloa,

The best place to even think about going is to:

www.tigerdirect.com

Here you can find good pricing on just about all types of PC's.

I am using a quad core Q6600 intel chip. These are a very fine game chip, I also have two nvidia 9600 cards running in the SLI mode. I am a very heavy gamer and find that this setup is great for all the latest games. ATI right now has the best video cards I believe the 4850 or 4870 or something like that. Somebody else on the board gave the right numbers. I would stay away from AMD for right now there chips have fallen way behind Intel for speed. If you must get an AMD chip go with the new Phenom. Anyhow take a good look at tigerdirect, they have a lot of specials on, and a lot of parts so that you can make your own computer. If you get a new computer go with at least 2 gig of memory, hard drives are open to your choice (I like SATA drives). Don't try to waste your money on more than 3 gigs of ram because windows will not recognize more than 3 gig. If you get a chance try Ubuntu with a dual boot with windows xp, my recommendation is don't even try VISTA it is the most aggrevating OS on the market, unless you like calling India on MS's toll free line and talking to some one from India to reactivate your computer, I gave up after the 9th time and stick with windows xp. Another nice feature of dual core and quad core is that you can try 64 bit systems. Windows is just about useless in the 64 bit mode, but I hear Ubuntu works quite well.

If you have any questions, please let me know, I will try to answer if I know. PC computing has come a long way, and is just about as much fun as the Amiga as long as you like using Ubuntu, Ubuntu is free, has a lot of stuff, and a lot of eye candy. It has just about every program that you can ever use, and if you like playing games, you can use either wine (not so good for PC games, but fun to see if you can get one running, I have half life and Castle wolfenstein running on wine) or you can join Cedega and get the use of about 75% of window games. You can also use e-uae the amiga emulator on Ubuntu, or get Amiga forever that will run on windows xp, runs really great on a quad core Q6600. One thing though get yourself one of the newer 3D graphics cards, don't go to cheap in this area, 3D graphics are the coolest.

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

Here it goes, final purchase:

EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 (2.66Ghz, 8MB cache)
4GB Corsair DDR3 1333Mhz
GeForce GTX 260
Ultra X3 800 watt power supply

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Excellent choice, I would have gotten the ATI card though, although th GTX 260 is a good choice, but slower than the new ATI cards.

You should be very happy with this choice. Remember try Ubuntu 8.04, with a dual boot with windows xp. I use Ubuntu for stuff that I want to keep, and use windows for gaming only. By the way Ubuntu also has a nice server package. Take  a look, it is free, it is cheap, it works great, it is easy and fast to load, easy to add applications on, and did I mention that it is free. It is even cheaper than windows, and works better, I have been using it for 3 years now, and have not lost any data, it has never crashed, and it is free. You can even put it on as many computers as you want without breaking any EULA's. and it is still free.

smerf

Remember Ubuntu is free

smerf