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Free Thinkr
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: Want a 4.1GHz dual core for 128 bones? |
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4.1GHz dual core, 64 bit ready Intel for 128 bucks? Nuh uh.
Uh huh!
'Sgon' be a lil' bit extra for the water coolin'. |
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David
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Location: Louisiana
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| For that price you can afford the water cooling. |
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Free Thinkr
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:53 am Post subject: |
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David wrote: For that price you can afford the water cooling.
I'm seriously mulling this over. They ran up to 3.8GHz on the Zalman cooler; I'm thinking about going that way. Even at that speed, it's running with the Pentium EE and the AMD FXs. |
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FCTE
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I would consider, but it's a lot of work and I'm a devout AMD person. I could never go back to Intel products. I'm quite satisfied with my AMD 64 and it plays any game flawlessly, as is, right out of the box. |
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Protostar
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:59 am Post subject: |
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FCTE wrote: I would consider, but it's a lot of work and I'm a devout AMD person. I could never go back to Intel products. I'm quite satisfied with my AMD 64 and it plays any game flawlessly, as is, right out of the box.
I don't know I've read some great reviews about the Intel dual cores on Newegg, the 3.0Ghz one especially. I think I'll go back to Intel when I upgrade my PC again. The only bad thing is the support for this processors varies motherboard wise. I read some comments about users having to flash the BIOS to get hardware glitches to go away. I also don't like the fact how the motherboard manufacturers have essentially abandoned AGP with respect to the motherboards that support these processors. I really don't want to upgrade my graphics cards right now (6600GT) as it suits my purposes just fine. |
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FCTE
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Protostar wrote: I don't know I've read some great reviews about the Intel dual cores on Newegg, the 3.0Ghz one especially. I think I'll go back to Intel when I upgrade my PC again. The only bad thing is the support for this processors varies motherboard wise. I read some comments about users having to flash the BIOS to get hardware glitches to go away. I also don't like the fact how the motherboard manufacturers have essentially abandoned AGP with respect to the motherboards that support these processors. I really don't want to upgrade my graphics cards right now (6600GT) as it suits my purposes just fine.
I have no need to upgrade right now, my PC is great and does everything I need it to. Yes the Intel dual cores have had many problems in both PC and Macs so I don't trust them, you know the rule about first generation crap......WAIT. I have a 6800 AGP and I don't plan to upgrade anytime soon. I had the 6600GT for a week and then traded up, it's a very good budget card, but the 6800 is much better. AGP is dead in new technology so it will be hard to find an Intel dual core AGP motherboard if they make them at all. However AMD 64 dual cores run on most AMD 64 single core motherboards and there are plenty of AGP AMD 64 motherboards still around.
AMD is a better company with better products and always will be. |
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ew713
Joined: 27 May 2006
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Location: Seattle, WA
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FCTE wrote: AMD is a better company with better products and always will be.
well said |
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