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[Maccabee]

A:

# Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Desktop Processor E5300
# 2.60GHz Processor Speed
# 6GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM memory

B:

# Athlon™ X2 5400+ Dual-Core Processor
# 2.80GHz processor speed
# 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM memory

And B is slimline. Are slimline computers worse?

[Maccabee]

cmon wheres tama and cj!

[mipadi]

I'd go with A. The clock speed increase from A to B is negligible, and A has a lot more RAM (very important). Arguably, the Intel processor is better in this case, too.

[Maccabee]

Ok I think i agree.
I was also thinking about te mghz myth because the pipeline in an intel processor is much longer than amd.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Give me more specs, and tell me what you're doing with it. As is, I say A, but that could change if I find out what you're going to do with it, and things like what kind of GPU is in it.

[Maccabee]

Well im thinking that instead of making my own computer from scratch I would just buy one. Cause I wouldnt save that much money making my own and it wouldn't be much better.

Here is the link to computer A:

http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate....&pCatg=5816

And computer B:

http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate....&pCatg=5816

But im pretty much sold on computer A.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Well im thinking that instead of making my own computer from scratch I would just buy one. Cause I wouldnt save that much money making my own and it wouldn't be much better.

Here is the link to computer A:

http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate....&pCatg=5816

And computer B:

http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate....&pCatg=5816

But im pretty much sold on computer A.

You can save a considerable amount building your own computer. Sometimes $500 or more.

And the point of building your own computer is so you can have a computer built for exactly what you're going to do with it.

[Maccabee]

You can save a considerable amount building your own computer. Sometimes $500 or more.

And the point of building your own computer is so you can have a computer built for exactly what you're going to do with it.

I did the calculations and I would only save about 100 dollars making my own.
How would you build your computer according to what your doing it with? I just want a computer that does fast processes so the processor is really important to me.

It needs a short pipeline and as many mghz as possible. Thats the only reason I would think about making my own.

[mipadi]

It needs a short pipeline and as many mghz as possible. Thats the only reason I would think about making my own.

No offense, but...do you even know what a process pipeline is, and why it's relevant (or not relevant, as the case may be)?

[kryogenix]

I'd go with A. The clock speed increase from A to B is negligible, and A has a lot more RAM (very important). Arguably, the Intel processor is better in this case, too.

Yeah, but the ram doesn't matter when this idiot is gonna use a 32-bit OS.

[Maccabee]

Mipadi: yes
and steven..you think im an idiot?

[illriginal]

Neither... Intel E8400 >

[mipadi]

Mipadi: yes

Well, okay...then why do you need a short pipeline?

[Maccabee]

Well, okay...then why do you need a short pipeline?

Just because they complete processes faster. I was just saying I want a fast processor.
If im correct a processor is what would make say, rendering a video, or something faster.
Because sometimes when Im editing stuff like a large image just selecting areas take a long time. I dont see how ram would make this faster because ram is Random access memory.
A processor processes.

[mipadi]

Just because they complete processes faster. I was just saying I want a fast processor.

If it was true that processors with shorter pipelines always had better performance, why would Intel design chips with such long pipelines?

[Deospeon]

NOW JOSEPH!

[Maccabee]

NOW JOSEPH!

I put a together a computer on newegg for like 600. And it was way better then that.
But then I still have to buy a monitor and mouse and keyboard so in the end the 800 dollar computer is actually better and it only costs 100 dollars more, then if I made it myself.
The only thing I am disappointing about is the 2.6ghz dual core processor.
What are the odds that the processor won't be glued on? Cause i would love to replace it with this baby.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819115036

When you make a computer how often to you have problems with the hardware not being compatible with software?

[illriginal]

I doubt that.



And I've never built a machine in which the hardware had problems with either Windows or Linux, except my Z Cinema speakers but only because Linux gets offended by the way "Cinema" is spelled. It doesn't like the, "`" over the letter "e".

[Maccabee]

I doubt that.

Doubt what?

[illriginal]

I've might have misunderstood but from what I did read, I think you're implying that your $600 machine is capable of playing Crysis?...

Just the video card a lone would be between $200-300

[Maccabee]

The guy in the video made a computer than can run crysis for 500 dollars. Im saying i made a very similar computer for 600. just more ram.

[illriginal]

lol with $500?...

He must have used the bare minimum requirements with one cheap ass plastic computer case lol

[Maccabee]

lol with $500?...

He must have used the bare minimum requirements with one cheap ass plastic computer case lol

NOW JOSEPH!

[illriginal]

Can't watch it.. at work.

I'm being dead ass serious if you have a $500 machine running Crysis, I can only imagine that game play is horrible.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

I built a computer not too long ago that runs Crysis pretty well, and it cost just over $700. I don't consider $600 too much of a stretch.