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On Apr 15, 3:34 pm, Gene Kearns
wrote:
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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Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepagehttp://pamandgene.idleplay.net/

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At one time, several years ago, like 12 or so, there was a problem
with Autocad related to the AMD. I actually had the problem, or else
I'd find it hard to believe! No problems now with autocad, Revit,
STAAD, or any software that I know of.

______


That is hard to believe, obviously something to do with the
math co-processor.

db

On Apr 15, 4:43*pm, "D-unit" wrote:
wrote in ...

On Apr 15, 3:34 pm, Gene Kearns
wrote:





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....

--

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepagehttp://pamandgene.idleplay.net/

Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguidehttp://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

At one time, several years ago, like 12 or so, there was a problem
with Autocad related to the AMD. I actually had the problem, or else
I'd find it hard to believe! No problems now with autocad, Revit,
STAAD, or any software that I know of.

______

That is hard to believe, *obviously something to do with the
math co-processor.

db- Hide quoted text -

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I believe it was, and yes, I found it very hard to believe at the
time.

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:47:15 -0400, "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

Dell has a pretty good deal this month on an Intel Core 2 Quad
Processor Q6600 (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB)

http://tinyurl.com/5ju6bp

Should be blazing fast with a 4 way multi processor chip and a lot of
cache memory. Unfortunately it comes with Vista but should be fast
enough to run it OK if your applications work.

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:15:10 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:47:15 -0400, "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

Dell has a pretty good deal this month on an Intel Core 2 Quad
Processor Q6600 (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB)

http://tinyurl.com/5ju6bp

Should be blazing fast with a 4 way multi processor chip and a lot of
cache memory. Unfortunately it comes with Vista but should be fast
enough to run it OK if your applications work.

Dell will substitutes XP for Vista. Many folks are doing so.
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)