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[bigdawgfoxx]

Hey guys. Im just trying to make hardware world a little bit more fun

Maximum PC's Gear Of The Year 2003

Graphics Card
***ATI Radeon 9800XT $500

CPU
***AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 $800

Game Controller
***Saitek P3000 Wireless Gamepad $40

Small FormFactor Bare-Bones PC
***Shuttle XPC SB61G2 $350

DVD Burner
***Plextor PX-708A $280

Soundcard
***Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum $200

Case
***Cooler Master Wave Master Tac-T01 $158

PDA
*** Hewlett Packard iPaq 5555 $650

Athlon XP Chipset
***nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400

Speakers
***Logitech Z-680 $400

Notebook HDD
***Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 $265

CD Burner
***Plextor PlexWriter Premium $116

Pentium 4 Chipset
***Intel 875P

Budget Videocard
***ATI Radeon 9600Pro $200

Mouse
***Logitech MX700 $80

External Storage
***Mercury On-The-Go 60GB $400

MP3 Player
***Apple iPod $500

Harddrive
***Western Digital 360GD Raptor $190

Monitor
***Sony F520 CRT $1600

Notebook
***Voodoo Envy M460 $3515

These prices are a little high, but that it just what they have in the magazine.

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CPU Showdown

Athlon 64 FX-51 vs. Apple G5 vs. Pentium 4 Extreme Edition

The Test/Winner

Mathematics 5.0/ Athlon 64
SETI@Home/ Athlon 64
UT2003/ Intel P4EE
Jedi Outcast/ Intel P4EE
Quake III/ Intel P4EE
InDesign 2.0 Export to PDF/ Intel P4EE
Photoshop 7.0.1 All Filters/ Intel P4EE
Photoshop 7.0.1 Mac Addict Filters/ Apple G5
Bibble/MacBibble/ Apple G5
QuickTime 6.3 Export to MOV/ Apple G5
Compressor "Fast" vs. Procoder "High-Speed"/ Athlon & P4EE
Compressor "High-Quality" vs. Procoder 1.5 "Mastering"/ Apple G5

Overall Winner....Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition!

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These computers were talked about in one of their issues. It looks really awesome and is obviously for gaming. The red and yellow ones are gorgeous

HyperSonic PCs

[tesco]

red one looks disgunstingly ugly :x

[bigdawgfoxx]

It took a while to type..so if i think the red one looks cool..it DOES haha

The lighter red does...where it looks dark its ugly..i guess it depends on the lighting..

The yellow one is awesome though

[tesco]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@10 March 2004 - 23:13
It took a while to type..so if i think the red one looks cool..it DOES haha

The lighter red does...where it looks dark its ugly..i guess it depends on the lighting..

The yellow one is awesome though

i agree the yellow one is great! and yeah it is probably the lighting mking it looks bad, its just that that is the first one that popped up and it looked so bad...

[abu_has_the_power]

intel won!! :beerchug:

[Neo 721]

I wonder why they dont dont do those ultimate PC competitions on CNN anymore

[Cygnuz-Y]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@11 March 2004 - 06:06
intel won!! :beerchug:

Wait for 64 Bits applications...

[bigdawgfoxx]

Whenever they start to come out...lol

Both companies are confusing me.

AMD is supposed to change the names of some of them...so we will have to ask what socket it is and stuff, because a 3400 will be 2.2Ghz and a 3200 Will be 2.2Ghz depending on the socket and stuff...and it just seems confusing..

I have no clue whats going on with Intels 64bit chip lol

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by Cygnuz&#045;Y+11 March 2004 - 17:03--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Cygnuz-Y @ 11 March 2004 - 17:03)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-abu_has_the_power@11 March 2004 - 06:06
intel won&#33;&#33; :beerchug:

Wait for 64 Bits applications... [/b][/quote]
then intel comes out with their 64 bits, and athlon 64&#39;s get assraped

[Cygnuz-Y]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power+12 March 2004 - 00:28--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (abu_has_the_power @ 12 March 2004 - 00:28)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by Cygnuz&#045;Y@11 March 2004 - 17:03
<!--QuoteBegin-abu_has_the_power

@11 March 2004 - 06:06
intel won&#33;&#33; :beerchug:

Wait for 64 Bits applications...

then intel comes out with their 64 bits, and athlon 64&#39;s get assraped [/b][/quote]


and AMD will be 2 times cheaper and easy overclockable.... B)