Topic: Which do you like?

[Keith™]

You have four Athlon XP's at home! Your boss must be paying you too much

Actually I do....
And no....I don't get paid too much.... even BG doesn't get paid too much...it is all relative....

Nah...he "liberated" them.....

And no, I did not liberate them.....I actually purchased them ALL ....

Actually in the last 7 or 8 years I have had around 15 or 16 different computers....

The way to do it is quite simple....
BUILD YOUR OWN!!!!

I can purchase the 400W Case, 800MhzFSB MB,  256Meg Memory, 80 GB HD, related peripherals etc for right at $250-$300

Yeah,  they are not super duper gaming systems, but, they work quite well...I built my latest one right after Christmas...Thinking of cannibalizing my oldest one and building a new system, can probably do so for around $150 or so....It just depends on what I want in it...

I bought 2 computers out of the box and I had nothing but trouble from them, so, I have decided that I will not buy another unless the price is competetive...If I can get it for under $500 I might consider it,  but absolutely no more....

[whodo]

Thanks for the info, I was just looking at upgrading
my home system for cad and was not sure which way
to go, sounds like for the little more money that intel
costs it will be a better fit.

[diarmuid]

i have an amd athlon at home and i have an intel p4 in work.  i am a hardcore gamer and i do, using cad and games push both machine to their limits.  to be honest i have found that my machine at home is faster, but it is not slowed down by a network connection etc.  prople have been quoting clockspeeds and this that and the other, truth is, we are talking nonosecods in difference.  regardless.  it really doesn't matter what o.s. you use if its speed your talking about because commander data would be the only one you could tell the difference in the speed of the machines.

i have an athlon at home (on which i use cad at home aswell) because it was 50% cheaper for the motherboard and the processor ( it had a higher spec than the intel processor)  i thought theat it would be a poorer knock off of the intel chip but i was very wrong.  they are both very good products and a little competion never hurt nobody, unless your a one legged man in an ass kicking competion.

bottom line....swings and roundabouts.

it will probably be your software that will be giving you restrictions before your hardware will, at the spec you quote above anyways

Diarmuid

[hyposmurf]

I'd have to agree with you about that,the main difference would be your type of operating system, also the software combinations/conflicts and  the user of the workstation.

[t-bear]

Thanks all....looks like I'm going with the AMD.
Can't wait to get my new toy!

[daron]

So the vote's in on the P$ and you decide to go AMD. Minority rules Ted?

[t-bear]

I'm wierd....what can I say!  Actually, I really like the AMD chip and was leaning that way to start.  Adesk supports AMD so....  As you can see, I have more than enough horsepower either way.  I was really just curious as to your thoughts, doesn't mean I'm gonna join the herd.  

[Keith™]

Well, I have to admit that that while the P4 is the one I voted for, I will still only purchase the AMD.. WHY???
They are generally much faster than P4's when running XP (for a much lower price) and when using the system for general computing.

[t-bear]

What HE said   LOL

[Mark]

This is the site that I rely on when making choices like this one.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/index.html