Alright let me put this at the top of the thread. PLease, please, if you are gonna vote about which dually setup to use, then pleasealso vote for the dually system in the first poll. It will allow you to do this right? If not I appologize, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Thanks
Old thread
Well theres the link to my old thread, if you would like to browse it. If you remember it, you will know I was trying to decide what CPU to use in my HTPC, for th emost part everyone said to use my AXP in my current system in the HTPC. That was not the way that I really wanted to go, but after more thinking about it, I have decided to take everyones advice. So my AXP2100+, ECS K7S5A, 512MB Crucial and some other parts will make its way into my new HTPC. Which leaves me with no main rig. SO what do i do now??????
I am not set in any direction with this, as I was with the HTPC, so this should be less of a struggle. I am currently considering 3-4 options as strong candidates, but am open to others as well. The way I see it, I can get a mobile AXP and overclock it on an nForce 2 board, or I could also go with an A64 and nForce 3 250 board, those are my 2 most likely options. But I also have a couple more extravagant options. 1 would be a FIC condor, I absolutely love the looks of this system. While it would require me to go the intel route, I would be open to that in this case, the only problem I see is that I have heard they will be releasing a newer version with more bells and whistles, and maybe more BIOS options. I am also considering go with a dually setup, probablly Athlon XP-M or MP based, but maybe would go opteron, but if I go that route it would likely start with only 1 proc to keep costs down, adding a second later.
Since I don't do any one thing heavily, its a touch choice. Obviously if I was a huge gamer, the A64 would be best, encoding generally is believed to be Intels area, but I know AMD can hold its own if not outperofrm it in some encoding apps. The Intel option has the benefit of being SFF though. I would thinkt he dually setup would lend itself well to multitasking and encoding, but not sure if I do enough to really take advantage of them. SO what would you do, which would you choose????
Old thread
Well theres the link to my old thread, if you would like to browse it. If you remember it, you will know I was trying to decide what CPU to use in my HTPC, for th emost part everyone said to use my AXP in my current system in the HTPC. That was not the way that I really wanted to go, but after more thinking about it, I have decided to take everyones advice. So my AXP2100+, ECS K7S5A, 512MB Crucial and some other parts will make its way into my new HTPC. Which leaves me with no main rig. SO what do i do now??????
I am not set in any direction with this, as I was with the HTPC, so this should be less of a struggle. I am currently considering 3-4 options as strong candidates, but am open to others as well. The way I see it, I can get a mobile AXP and overclock it on an nForce 2 board, or I could also go with an A64 and nForce 3 250 board, those are my 2 most likely options. But I also have a couple more extravagant options. 1 would be a FIC condor, I absolutely love the looks of this system. While it would require me to go the intel route, I would be open to that in this case, the only problem I see is that I have heard they will be releasing a newer version with more bells and whistles, and maybe more BIOS options. I am also considering go with a dually setup, probablly Athlon XP-M or MP based, but maybe would go opteron, but if I go that route it would likely start with only 1 proc to keep costs down, adding a second later.
Since I don't do any one thing heavily, its a touch choice. Obviously if I was a huge gamer, the A64 would be best, encoding generally is believed to be Intels area, but I know AMD can hold its own if not outperofrm it in some encoding apps. The Intel option has the benefit of being SFF though. I would thinkt he dually setup would lend itself well to multitasking and encoding, but not sure if I do enough to really take advantage of them. SO what would you do, which would you choose????
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