Eisbaerchen opened this issue on Oct 21, 2004 ยท 31 posts
HellBorn posted Fri, 22 October 2004 at 3:23 AM
Well, the way I usually buy my computers I tend to pay abit more when I buy it to get what the parts that usually wins the 'most bang for the money'. Buying a new computer is something I would do when I could get about double the processor speed compared to what I got and upgrading it relly never is a way to go as my wife(does some video editing) and the children (plays games,plays games,plays games...)always sceems for more power I have always had to let go of the old one. Today I have a P4 2,6GHz 1Gb 2x200Mb SATA in RAID(for safe data keeping not for speed) and a Ti4800 graphic card. It's obvious that I wont be able to double the processor power this time. So maybe waiting for the nForce4 with sli and get one together with a 6800GT and 1GBb RAM and then maybe in the coming 6months add a second 6800GT and a 1Gb more memory it will be running at full power before the wife and children starts to ask for more. ;) Some questions remains: 1. Will a 256Mb 6800GT give me more power over a 128Mb one in 3D applications or is it rather something usefull for on the edge gaming? 2. Another way to double the processing power would be to get DUAL mobo. I have however not found any AMD64 mobos or multi processors. Am I correct that the only AMD options for a DUAL setup is Athlon MP and Opterons and if so what kind of power could one expect from an DUAL Athlon setup compared to a single AMD64 +3500? 3. Also, is there any DUAL bords for the Pentium 4 775 socket or is Xeons the only option?