Building a new computer....

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

do you honestly think amd has no answer? please, they will leave intel in a sramble just like when the 64 bit chip came out.

Actually the sramble started when the Athlon moved to the thunderbird core and commercially hit 1ghz. The Athlon owned "netburst" for most its life. then 64 was a good effort as well, but fizzled quickly as Intel laid the smackdown. I was an avid AMD user since my K5(mainly out of budget back then), I still don't see them coming up with anything anytime soon that Intel won't answer back to.
The core series was just as much of a home run for Intel as the Athlon was for AMD. Difference is Intel still has all the money and market share, so this resurgence can be fatal to AMD whereas Athlon wasn't fatal to Intel.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

Oh, BTW nothing Intel has done has been "innovative," AMD's 64bits was much more innovative than anything they have done. Also I don't really see any processors going anywhere UNLESS something truly innovative does happen.

How was it innovative?
Both the Athlon and 64 were based loosely on the DEC Alpha projects. AMD took engineers from this project to front their 7th gen CPU architecture.

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

How was it innovative?
Both the Athlon and 64 were based loosely on the DEC Alpha projects. AMD took engineers from this project to front their 7th gen CPU architecture.

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It is refreshing to see someone who does research, knows about topics before screaming out rubbish.

that being said X2 on what he said //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Intel is FAR FAR ahead of the curve in newer technology. They are currently working on 32nm wafers and own everyone in the market by 2X. I just read an insight review on the semiconductor marketplace (where I work sells targets into this segment) and intel trounces number 2 (samsung) by roughly double.

Intel will sell in 3 weeks, what AMD will do in one year.

I am an AMD fanboi though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Running an X2 right now. Before that was the Athlon64 3000+, before that was the XP2800. Looks like right now my next purchase will be a core2 though, just a better processor for the money.

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

Not going to read through 5 pages, but did you say your budget, what you have left to buy?

Tell me that and I can send you some links. If no one mentioned pricewatch.com, check that out too. Newegg gets linked on there so if newegg is cheapest they will show up first.

I do not see any value in 4gb of ram currently. If you are planning on running a 64-bit OS, run high end applications (photo editing of RAW photos, video editing, high end 3d design) then 4gb is for you. If not 2gb will cover 98% of everything you do. Not to mention a 32-bit OS will only see something like 3.15 gb of RAM.