Building a New System: Is it worth it to go AMD 64 at this time?

[acelesson]

I know there isnt much 64bit Technology out right now, but will it be worth my time if this PC is going to have to last me 1-2 years before I re-build again?

 

[jpeyton]

I have a 2 year old PC that will still type, surf, and play CS all I want.

The question is what do YOU want to be able to do for 2 years?

If you want to play top of the line games for 2 years, you won't be able to unless you upgrade your video card at some point.

Check out the thread in my sig for some A64 suggestions.

 

[Adul]

if your gamer yes

actually most anything in general I would take a a64 over a p4

 

[Varun]

The common misconception is that it even matters that the Athlon 64 is 64bit. It doesn't, because it blows everything away in pretty much all 32bit apps, plus has the added bonus of being 64bit if the need ever comes along.

At this point, I don't see any reason to pick anything but the A64.

 

[acelesson]

I guess what I want is a good system that will be able to handle all the next gen games (Battlefield 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Splinter Cell 3, Doom 3, and HL2 with good enough graphics that wont be dissapointing and a smooth Frame rate.

My Last system that I sold (actually sold parts of it on here) was a

Abit IS7
P4 2.4c
1 Gig of Kingston HyperX PC-3200
Radeon 9800
WD 80 Gig HDD

Seemed to get it done quite well. I guess I want something a little faster than that. I suppose the only bottleneck was the processor though right?

 

[NightCrawler]

I would build a Athlon 64 2800+ machine and wait for the 3700+ to fall in price. In a year or 18 months upgrade it to whatever is selling around $100.

 

[LeGaCi]

Go with an A64. I upgraded about a month ago to the 64 2800+ and it rocks in all the games I play (Doom 3, far cry, painkiller, Americas army).

 

[Mik3y]

athlon 64 is 32 bit and 64 bit. its faster then a compared intel except in encoding/decoding (except for socket 939), so there isnt any reason not to go with amd because 64 bit isnt out yet.

 

[caz67]

I am an INTEL man, but you can't get a better gaming CPU than AMD at the moment.

 

[NightCrawler]

Originally posted by: Mik3y
athlon 64 is 32 bit and 64 bit. its faster then a compared intel except in encoding/decoding (except for socket 939), so there isnt any reason not to go with amd because 64 bit isnt out yet.

Is encoding/decoding that important, I bet most people don't do it. Also the time difference is minor and most people buy mid grade computers not the top of the line so it probably doesn't make much difference.

 

[lchyi]

A64s are nice. I have a friend that just upgraded to a 3000+ and oc'ed it to 2.45 (not really typical but he got lucky I guess). This was all on stock cooling.... that's one fast computer. Now his system blows mine out of the water and will probably last him about 3-4 years.