Canuck57 wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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JimH wrote:
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:57:31 -0700 (PDT), penned
the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Apr 15, 11:47 am, "D-unit" wrote:
Actually we needed another workstation
here at work rather quickly ( for my new replacement)
Im keeping a desk and my pc here for the time being.
I went up to the TigerDirect store in North Raleigh
Sunday to see what they had.

I got:

Acer Veriton M410
Windoze Xp Pro SPII
1GB DDRII
AMD Sempron 3800+
160GB SATA
Built in video/LAN/sound

Brand new, not a refurb.

$379.00 plus tax.

After 2 hours of downloading/installing "updates"
...She works fine.

db
After studying and then the advice of a real, genuine person that is
degreed and works in the IT field (not plays one in rec.boats!), I
also went with the AMD chip. It consitently clocks faster than Intel
chips of the same variety. Never had a problem with it.
I haven't owned an Intel chip since my first experiences with AMD....

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They are indeed fast but tend to run hotter than Intel..........cooling
is always an issue especially if you overclock them.
Apparently the latest high-end AMD chipset is a distant second to the
latest high-end Intel chipset with which it competes.

I wouldn't say distant. 5-10%. But each on the top end processors, AMD is
also about 5% less watts which is less heat last I looked.

I get a kick out of the people who buy the top notch new processor that adds
$500-700 to the tag for that extra 10% in CPU speed. Which is never
realized as increasing video, RAM and hard drives are the bottle neck. Many
PCs today are like Volkswagen beetles with Pratt and Whitney turbofans in a
70mph capable chassis.




Some of the new dual slot video cards alone generate more heat than just
about everything else on the motherboard together. I keep on eye on the
temps of the components in my PC box that have measuring devices
attached, and nothing really competes with the video card in terms of
temps. It has its own fan and big heat sinks. The bottlenecks are as you
described, though.