Amd And Intel

[abraham1812]

This site www.ocworkbench.com list all motherboard manufacturers and any problems users report with them . The ECS K7S5A is known for its PSU problems, maybe i have shitty DDR Ram and its part of the problem. But as always I say pick AMD Athlon's.

[Supernatural]

Originally posted by Lamsey@1 March 2003 - 12:24
Oh yeah, I forgot about the budget CPUs... the AMD Duron kicks the Intel Celeron's ass in just about every department!

The best thing is that the Duron uses the same socket as an Athlon XP, so you don't need a new mainboard if you decide to upgrade to a better CPU.
Celerons use different a socket type from the P4, so you need a new mainboard to go from Celeron to P4.

Actually, all modern celerons use the same socket 478 as the P4's. The only difference is bus speed. The new P4's are at 533 and counting... Celeron is still around 400. I don't know all the facts, processor technology changes all the time.

[Lamsey]

all modern celerons use the same socket 478 as the P4's

I've never heard that... maybe I'm not looking hard enough

[SiNi*F8]

I don't know how true this is, but I've heard that a bloke a bit south from me, overclocked his 2.4ghz P4 to a 3.6 with a 2 degree heat inscrease, using a 2 fan/heatsink setup. I'm really not sure about that thought, because it's over a Gigahert increase and I've never heard of anything so marvellous yet

[vegeta]

i use intel p4

[TRshady]

Rate this pc please:

ABIT KG7 VIA686B Socket A motherboard

AMD Athlon XP+ 1.8 processor

Cooler Master Fan up to 1.8XP

512 ddr ram

32 mb graphics

[Benno]

You will need a better vid card, at least 64mb but I would recommend 128mb.

[TRshady]

I mainly want you guys to rate the notherboard and processor. Thanks anyway benno.

[Benno]

I think you will be able to run everything at the moment. B)

[TRshady]

cool, motherboards is one thing Ive never been to sure of. So how future proof do you think it is?