Going to Buy an Intel System

Last edited by Justin on Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:09 am; edited 1 time in total

I am going to throw this Athlon 64 system away (perhaps in the trash, or maybe I'll melt it and make some money :woot:) and upgrade to an Intel-based PC. :wub: Can someone recommend me some parts for it? I'm looking for a processor in the 200-500$ range.

Well, then I hear that the Pentium 266MHz is hard core & it's quite cheap :rofl:

Oh, and there is nothing like the amazing Celeron. I mean, Intel virtually took away all of its cache, to sell them cheaper. Now that is what I call brains LOL

Justin, I assume you are joking about replacing the Athlon 64 system with the Intel, correct?

And what Socket are you wanting for the Intel-based system? LGA775?

Only way it would be an upgrade is if you was upgradeing from a AMD XP or cempron to a 775 ddr 2 system. But a AMD 64 based system still beets even the best 775 intel systems by a great deal.

Yep. That's exactly what I had in mind. ;)

Justin, do you want to replace your current system or have an Intel system as a spare for applications such as rendering & encoding?

I was kidding about ditching the Athlon 64 guys. :S

Anyways, I want an Intel system as a backup.

Last edited by sin0822 on Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:50 pm; edited 1 time in total

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THose are mobo and procesor, iv seent hat proc do 4.1 onair at sotck voltge, its runs as cool as the northwoods and is cut form the central waffers, most come from costa rica now, but if you get one from malaysia be happy you got the best.

I belive that mobo and the ic7-g are the only 2 equipped with 5 stage power phase regulation needed for the prescott ocing.

Well, stay away from an Intel based system. AMD is better, faster, newer & cheaper :rolleyes:

Last edited by kahrn on Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:22 am; edited 1 time in total

Let's take a 7.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 against an Athlon 64 X2 5200+ @ 2.6GHz and see which outperforms the other.

After all, a Pentium 4 had to be overclocked to 5.2GHz to match an FX55 @ 2.6GHz.

Link: http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1787/

Too bad there has never been a 7.4GHz overclock that was perfectly stable. It took liquid nitrogen to even get that high.

Define \"perfectly stable\", because from my definition I have yet to use a perfectly stable cpu ;)

Anyways, it's not all about core speed and such (which is how amd engineers there cpu's)... from my experience two athlons failed within a 3 year period.. I'd say that's pretty shabby considering I'm still waiting for an intel to fail which is almost 10 years old.. :\

One thing for sure is that I won't be using intel or AMD within 3 years if DRM is implemented into both companys chips (which is almost certain as far as I am concerned)