Pls suggest the best Home PC configuration.

[pkrisnam]

Hello All,
Planning to buy a new PC for home. PLs suggest the best configuration, mainly the CPU (b/w Pentium4 and AMD 64) , suitable mother boards, etc...
Thanks in advance
-Pavan

 

[bob4432]

we need a little more info, like what will it be used for, because a question like yours will get "Dell" as the answer.

welcome to the forums 🙂

 

[pkrisnam]

As I said bob, its for home use, mainly browsing, games, movies, MS office etc. No complex stuff. I know a normal PC would do, but I am thinking b/w P4 and AMD64..
thanks for reply..

 

[flatblastard]

I got a Compaq Presario 5170 Internet PC with PII 350Mhz MMX instruction for sale. Dude, this system is for the 733t h4x0rz only, way better than AMD64/P4. I'll sell it to you real cheap. I'll even throw in the huge 15" Compaq MV500 CRT monitor to sugar the pot. 😉 j/k

Edit: Welcome to the forums! 🙂

 

[bob4432]

what games? solitare? bf2? wow? quake 3? doom 3? do you want to build it yourself or buy complete? for a generic answer and you are building it yourself i would go the a64 route unless you are going to do a lot of audio/video encoding because that is where the p4 really shines or want to buy one from dell, other than that most of your normal stuff and games(pretty much regardless of what type they are) run pretty equal or faster on a a64, considering you have the graphics card to do what needs to be done. a a64 3800+ mixed with a geforce2mx will play, if at all, quake 3 like sh!t, but a a64 3000+ with a nvidia 6800ultra would scream. also, what budget? again, this is an extremely vague answer.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: pkrisnam
As I said bob, its for home use, mainly browsing, games, movies, MS office etc. No complex stuff. I know a normal PC would do, but I am thinking b/w P4 and AMD64..
thanks for reply..

Forget those CPU's... Get this Dell. :laugh:


BTW... Maybe if you were specific about what "games" you plan on running, that would help.
Around here a "normal PC" for "gaming" is pretty heavy-duty.

 

[bob4432]

we are not trying to be rude, but helpful. some people consider gaming to play solitare, which doesn't require any power, usually around here gaming is running high resolutions will a lot of eye candy at at least 70frames per second on on machines that are tuned like race cars, at whatever budget the owner is at. i would say more than 50% of the graphics cards in peeps computers here alone will cost more than a complete dell budget machine or definately more than a xbox or ps2.