Search results

I agree with you mate - no standard is "dead" untill there are no useful products available on it. I have seen so many threads with people encouraging others do swap out their AGP motherboards in favour of PCI-express Some people just dont want the extra hassle of changing motherboard and...

I have always been impressed with Antec PSU's, never had a problem with them. Currently running a 480w neopower

Quite possibly, i though you meant the architecture. Think the 661 is a 65nm chip with VT

It's a 3.6 Ghz prescott

1. Why would it be daft to look at benchmarks? They may well be conducted in controlled conditions, but that is so that they are a fair test. Benchmarks are exactly that, a measure of performance relative to other CPUs. Surely it is more daft to ignore such information? 2. True, games are...

I'm afraid that your motherboard has a 915 chipset, which does not support dual core. So yes, a new motherboard would be required. Now is not a good time to upgrade however, wait a few months for intels and AMDs new platforms to arrive

The benefits of dual core are mainly that you can run two cpu intensive tasks at the same time, without penalty. Intel haven't yet released a 3.8 Ghz 800FSB dual core so I am unsure which processor you mean. Disadvantages with dual core are the extra cost and power consumption. I...

Farcry is very playable on a 9800XT, so long as you dont want AA or AF! Played through it twice with mine, and it coped fine. Just dont pay too much for it though - I paid £350 for mine when it came out. Kinda sucks now that technology has moved on...

Seconded. If you dont want to overclock, get the best X2 processor you can afford. If you do, get either the opteron 165 or the X2 3800

If you want an upgrade drop an Athlon 64 X2 in your motherboard - easy!

I would go for the Pentium over the Semperon every time. Better at multitasking and should be at least as fast in games, if not faster.

Also, make sure you budget for a new graphics card, as both the platforms you have mentioned will be PCI-Express. Your old platform will very likely be AGP graphics.

The intel chip does not actually run faster than the AMD one in this case - You are comparing the GHZ clock speed of the two, which are NOT directly comparable for AMD and Intel. Unless you are planning to overclock the Pentium D 805 by a significant amount, I would probably reccomend getting...

AMD could NOT supply dell without problems!!! They really don't have the capacity Also, if AMD had pursued the "please the public" route that intel did, they too would have been in the Gigahertz race which has ultimately hurt intel in the long run. AMD did the right thing by backing out of...

Yea looks like it - I hope conroe doesnt take 3 volts!!!

The X1900 is not just a speedbumped X1800. It has 48 pixel shaders compared to the X1800's 16.

Not if you have 4 X 512MB! :D

That looks like a reasonable board for the money, but I am put off by it only having 2 slots for RAM. It does work out cheaper getting that board and a PCI-e 7800GT though I guess

All I can find is an asrock pci-e plus AGP micro-atx motherboard with only 2 slots for RAM, dont really fancy replacing my P4C800E-DLX with that!!!! edit: Just found the MSI S478 Intel 915GM MATX, but it is £120 surely that is not the best (cheapest) upgrade path for AGP users??

Really? could you point me in the direction of one? How much are they?