Recent content by AstroDav

For the ones recommending AMD's, know that I highly respect them for price/performance comparisons. My first "real" computer, meaning over 1.5GHZ, was AMD, as have been 90% of the few dozen I've built, including my wifes, kids, & the one I'm currently using, + both of the laptops I've owned...

I'm actually the asker here instead of the answerer, but I'm gonna take a stab at this one. In narrowing down these 4 choices of drives, I probably read a couple hundred or more descriptions, reviews, & site-specs on maybe 50 specific brands/models of drives. As is obvious from my list of 4...

I always use twin drives with identical data as a form of safety, although I use a back-up utility rather than a RAID array. While I was true when saying I welcomed alternate suggestions, Blues weren't included because most everything I've read hinted that the Blacks, Greens, & Reds were a...

P.S. Won't be RAID'ing. P.P.S. Just say you have the same identical drive, save different capacity, as in #1 & #2. Will there be any REAL difference in search/read/write speed? 1st thought says the smaller drive will be slightly faster, but I also feel in modern drives that any difference will...

This was pretty much solved. Thanks for replies & I welcome same in question #2, which stays over here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2307827

This is sort of a continuation of my 1st question concerning a new build which lives over here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2300883 As in that question, I have narrowed my hardware selections down to a few & there I'm stuck. And as in that question, I don't mind at all in...

I've used all of those at some time or another, + a half-dozen other brands, some defunct. I had good luck with Asus & Asrock also, but am partial to Gigabyte for boards & cards. I got scared of MSI a few years ago, perhaps unwarranted. They just started seeming to me like being made fast as...

P.S. Dave ... already got Win7-Pro. It was on sale a few weeks ago. I skipped Vista, except on a laptop I never use, but knew this new machine would be on Win7, so got it when it was a wee bit cheaper. I didn't want to bother putting it on this one (XP-Pro64), since I knew it was about to retire...

I have no idea how I missed that 3570K. It's not THAT much higher than the 2500K & quite a bit of improvement. I've already made up my mind about that, but would have definitely missed it if not for ya'll. The MOBO ... I always indulge a bit there. Learned LONG ago a budget MOBO will get you a...

Well, that's the 2nd time that 3570 has popped up .... huummm :biggrin:

Add this. Maybe it'll help with the CPU choice between Intel 4-cores & AMD 8-cores. 3 things I basically do: 1. I game. NEVER on-line. My games are almost entirely simulators. SimCity4, upcoming SimCity Limited, Trainz 2011, Cities-XL, Tropico-4, Civ-5, junk like that. I'm not running &...

I use to build computers all the time, maybe 20-25 total, but that was WAY back in the 2-core days. I just simply burned out & didn't have fun doing it any longer. But I still do my own family computers, since I'm a bit picky. I guess I was pretty good at picking the pieces, since this...