Opinions on this spec?

[Amaroque]

The guy starts a thread asking for opinions on his build, then when he doesn't hear what he wants, he says...

Originally posted by: Curio
To be honest, that won't affect my decision. I've been tinkering with PC's for around 15 years now...

I suppose I was a bit harsh. But, people constantly do this. Start a thread "review my build" Then when they don't hear what they want, they get defensive. Why start a thread if whatever anyone says won't affect your decision anyway? That's just wasting everyone's time.

 

[Duvie]

Somewhere around there...i think there is a review of a northwood at 3.6 and 3.8 to compare, but I have to remember where...

very few apps are optimized for SSE3 so it is almost a moot point....The 64bit may be an advantage if you hang on to it long enough....

The 30 stage pipline versus the 22 stage pipeline of the northwood really penalizes it.....Was done to help it ramp up though it doesn't appear it will ever really go that much further then where the northwood probably could have gone to.....

My take is he is using apps that favor amd and apps that favor Intel....He cant go wrong either way....Multitasking will favor Intel but when using multiple cpu intensive apps simultaneously..not just things opened...that sucks up ram but unless they are all plugging away full speed and sucking up huge cpu cycles there will be no drastic difference to the AMD system...A lot of apps are IO dependent as well so good HDDs and multiple drives can help there....

I have some test if ppl want to see them someday where I ran diff programs (encoding, dvdshrinking, DVDavi, winrar, etc) and tested them on one drive, using multiple drives, using multiple raptor drives, etc...balancing out read and write operation between 2 different drives was often a huge advantage in time in IO dependent apps. If the drives were on their own channels as mine were it minimizes the bottle necks...

Likely get a raptor type main drive, with a 80+gb SATA backup drive and 1gb of ram and multitasking likley for her is ample...

 

[Ken90630]

Yeah, that's what I figured. I'd guess that a number of people use a mix of apps that favor Intel and apps that favor AMD chips, so the decision becomes one of prioritizing which apps are most important to you.

Good point re the HD factor. I think the hot ticket right now, for what you're describing, is 74GB Raptors in RAID. I think a person could approach SCSI-like performance from such a setup, from what I read.

 

[Dubb]

Originally posted by: Amaroque
The guy starts a thread asking for opinions on his build, then when he doesn't hear what he wants, he says...

Originally posted by: Curio
To be honest, that won't affect my decision. I've been tinkering with PC's for around 15 years now...

I suppose I was a bit harsh. But, people constantly do this. Start a thread "review my build" Then when they don't hear what they want, they get defensive. Why start a thread if whatever anyone says won't affect your decision anyway? That's just wasting everyone's time.

I think he was saying that the coming amd dual core won't affect his decision...as in, he's building now, what's coming this fall doesn't matter.