"JimH" wrote in message
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"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.


Why the hell would anybody overclock a modern CPU chip? You are number 1
asking for problems with any hardware race condition possible. And most PC
use at home is more bandwidth limited by parts outside the CPU. Maybe if
you had a 5000 cell spreadsheet, with lots of formulas, there would be a
difference between CPU's but 99.99999% of home use and even business use
would be fine with a 2 ghz cpu. The closest to needing the really fast CPU
are the gamers, and they are better off getting some of the new game
consoles. Look how long it takes to boot a PC anymore. Most of the time is
watching the disk activity light being on. A 10k rpm drive with good
caching would help a lot, but even with read ahead, the disk is a lot of the
limitation anymore.