Maljonic
Can't get enough of FH
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- Dec 22, 2003
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It's got to the time when I decide my PC is too old, as happens with me every two years. I usually like to wait until the current processors as at least twice as fast as the last one I bought. Anyway I don't keep up with what's new and popular in PC hardware once I've bought the stuff, usually just pick stuff off a list that seems to be the fastest.
I was just wondering, before I head out to the shop, what current opinions are on this, that and the other.
For instance AMD vs Pentium (if they both still exist), how fast do they go? What's this dual core thing I saw someone write about in their thread about their PC not switching on? Is there a fave graphics card, mobo and so on et cetera.
I'm talking about buying the seperate bits from a local shop, but it would also be intesting to hear opinions on brand name stuff like Dell, HP or whatever. I've thought about Dell for instance, but I only really need the PC box and none of the other stuff that comes with it.
Edit: I just looked at Dell I notice they are still plugging thing like 'The Ultimate Game Experience' and 'The Home Office' as different setups. Isn't that a bit of an old fashioned way of looking at PCs for the home? Surely everyone wants the ultimate game experience, at least secretly, and all the other stuff is secondary. I mean if your PC can handle the most hardware hungry games it should be able to handle anything I thought. Anyway I do want it to run stuff like BF2 etc as best as possible, and would expect, because of this, that it can handle all the work stuff I want to do too.
I was just wondering, before I head out to the shop, what current opinions are on this, that and the other.
For instance AMD vs Pentium (if they both still exist), how fast do they go? What's this dual core thing I saw someone write about in their thread about their PC not switching on? Is there a fave graphics card, mobo and so on et cetera.
I'm talking about buying the seperate bits from a local shop, but it would also be intesting to hear opinions on brand name stuff like Dell, HP or whatever. I've thought about Dell for instance, but I only really need the PC box and none of the other stuff that comes with it.
Edit: I just looked at Dell I notice they are still plugging thing like 'The Ultimate Game Experience' and 'The Home Office' as different setups. Isn't that a bit of an old fashioned way of looking at PCs for the home? Surely everyone wants the ultimate game experience, at least secretly, and all the other stuff is secondary. I mean if your PC can handle the most hardware hungry games it should be able to handle anything I thought. Anyway I do want it to run stuff like BF2 etc as best as possible, and would expect, because of this, that it can handle all the work stuff I want to do too.
