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Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus
Stick with me NM and you'll be wearing diamonds :D
I have just completed my cpu upgrade....500 to 800. It really flies now :p
These other kids don't know what their missing dealing in 10 year old junk. They just think the solution is to buy another part or software and the jobs done.
There's no fun in that :wallbash: and my computer runs quicker than my brothers geewiz wizbag I've paid thousands for it ....
Headache!!!!!!!
You want to see a 600mb machine with 128mb running XP with msmessanger firefox, windows media player, and limewire all running at the same time. My daughter wonders why its sloooooow.
and I wonder why I get capped :mad::mad:
Martyn
My flash 2800 with 1.5gb of ram cr*pped it self two days ago.
The motherboard fried. My Son, a puter IT, said it was the cr*ppy AMD thingy I had.
He is putting together an Intel 2.4 with 2Gb of RAM at the moment, with latest motherboard and HDD.
I'm currently using the wifes puter, which appears to be better than the thing I had. Down side is I have no access to all my e-mail addresses, programs and files.:(
The world should be thankfull there are/were crappy AMD things around,,,
until about 5-6 years ago I used to laugh at Intel why would you buy one when AMD where cheaper faster and just as reliable !
Now they are much of a much-ness, one year Intel is faster one year AMD is faster. I never buy cutting edge anyhow just too much of a difference.
Now I just shrug and see which one at that moment in time gives best bang-for-buck.
I was quite surprised when I upgraded from a P3 450mhz to an AMD2100 just how much faster internet pages & my email client loaded. Now with broadband and all of the extra content (flash etc) on web pages I think it is a worthwhile exercise for the average user to upgrade periodically.Quote:
Originally Posted by HangOver
Cheers
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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift
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Originally Posted by HangOver
imagine where we'd be if AMD hadnt been kicking Intels **** every couple of years,,,,
talk about competition being good for business,,,,
its been good for the world as we know it,,,;)
Yes your right to a certain extent if say you are running a slow PIII etc but if you have a 512K ADSL or 56k dial up it doesn't matter if you have a 1.8 with 512mb or a quad Xeon with 100GB you wont be making your connection any quicker and lets face it I would suggest that 70%+ of what an average user does is internet n email.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoCam
But computer really it's horses for courses it depends on what you need it for. My home laptop is an M1.7 & 1GB of ram. I also have a reasonable DCore desktop decent video card and loads of disk space which I hardly ever even turn on. I just prefer the notebook and it does what I want.
What I'm trying to say is if your computer runs real slow and it annoys you upgrade, else keep your money for your Landy.
You don't need to keep up with the Jones's !
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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift
According to my Son, the computer guru, AMD runs hotter than Intel. My last two boards (in 4 years) had AMD (cheaper), both died from heat, fan failure...Quote:
Originally Posted by HangOver
I'm hoping the so called flash intel will last longer than 2 years!
I have never really looked at actual temp per cpu but if your fans died you can't really blame AMD for that, can you ?Quote:
Originally Posted by RonMcGr
Either way on your new board ensure you enable fan monitoring.
It beeps it's head off if your fan dies.
Your mobo should also be set to shut down if your CPU reaches more than X degrees. X being user specified.