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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> 120720 Dale wrote to me as OP: |
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>>> If you need help with this, i'd be glad to help you pick parts |
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>>> for your build. The biggest thing is to make sure things work together. |
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>> Thanks for the offer & the other advice from everyone so far. |
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>> I built machines successfully in 2000 2003 2007 |
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>> & am still using the last 2 , tho' the 2007 mobo failed (ASUS) |
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>> & its replacement is showing minor bugs (glad I got in-store warranty). |
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>> Therefore, I'm not looking for basic advice how to put a box together. |
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>> I'm also willing to pay for a fast upto-date CPU, |
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>> but not of course whatever came out just last week, |
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>> which will soon drop in price & will still need some bugs sorting out. |
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>> I don't have to choose between a good CPU & a good SSD |
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>> & expect to get a competitive price from Canada Computers, as before. |
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>> Any further thoughts re Intel vs AMD wb very welcome. |
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>> SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb |
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>> ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto |
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>> TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca |
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> You'd definitely get more bang for your buck out of AMD, especially |
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> with Gentoo. It might even be worth waiting for AMD's piledriver-core |
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> CPUs depending on how much of an improvement they actually give, |
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> though I'm not sure when those are supposed to be out. And paying for |
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> a top-of-the-line AMD CPU is still much cheaper than Intel. |
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> This is a very broad generalization of course, but a lot of it comes |
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> down to multi-threaded (lean towards AMD) vs single-threaded (lean |
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> towards Intel). Honestly I don't think you'd notice the difference |
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> anyway on a general desktop. I'd pick AMD, and very likely one of |
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> their APUs if you don't need intense graphics, as they seem to be able |
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> to handle most things well and even some light gaming. |
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I love AMD for the historical ladder upgrades; all of my AMD systems |
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are comprised of components (RAM, CPU, and other pieces) which mostly |
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came from previous systems or newer systems' replaced components. |
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That's nice, and wonderfully cheap. |
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That said, right now Intel gives the best performance per watt...and |
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perhaps the best performance per dollar. I'm a few months out of date |
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on my research, though. |
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Wander around on cpubenchmark.net (Thanks, Florian, I'd lost my |
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bookmark to that site) and find the processor that fits your price and |
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performance level. Both Intel and AMD make excellent processors, so |
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you'll have to do your own research for a good decision. |
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:wq |