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See you there, Larry question regarding AMD Athlon XPGo to the Tech-Forums Discussion Home PagePosted by: af9148 hey, i have a question regarding the AMD processors hopefully you guys can gimme some recommendations. recently ive decided to get a new PC around the house just to have since the current one im using is a celeron and ive had it for a while. i came across a eMachines AMD computer with the following for around $480 AMD Athlon™ XP 2800+ Processor Desktop • 512MB DDR-DRAM memory • 80GB UltraDMA hard drive • CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive • 64MB NVIDIA® GeForce4™ MX graphics • 17" Flat Screen im new to AMD processors, do you think i should purchase an AMD computer or should i just stick with Pentium 4? i read somewhere that an AMD XP 2800+ is like a p4 2.66 is that true? any advice and tips please, just wondering if i should try out an AMD hopefully it'll last for a while like the current one im using. btw know any pros and cons about AMD? also the new pc is going to be used for mostly programming work using JBuilder and internet etc.. Posted by: DyNaStY336 sounds like a pretty good setup to me but eMachines is not excatly the best brand. Posted by: New York Cheech that sounds ok but emachines sucks, everyone that i know that has an emachine hates it, i used to have one it went super slow and it was the worst computer i ever used!! Posted by: ekÆsine stay away from emachines, look to see what HP/ Compaq or Dell offer instead. Posted by: poipo what speed is the ddr memory? that sounds to me like a pretty sweet deal for under 500 hundred dollers. since you are not going to be gaming an awful lot, that would be a nice computer. Especially for programming. personally i wouldnt but emachines because i like to build computers but if you dont want to go that route, this might be a good way to go 8) Posted by: didi Well. from what i heard, AMD cpu is good for gaming. Posted by: beedubaya Build your own or have it custom built. Don't buy a store-brand, especially HP/Compaq. If you ever want to upgrade your hardware, you will have a hard time doing it if you go with one of those brands. AMD is a good gaming processor, but you don't want GeForce4 MX Integrated Graphics, which is what comes with that emachines you are looking at. It struggles even on Quake III Engine games. Since you are not going to be gaming, that my not matter to you. But keep in mind, if you ever want to start gaming, it will be much better to do on a custom built computer that you can upgrade to suit your gaming needs rather than a store bought computer which you might be stuck with the integrated graphics. Posted by: kboy AMD's a very good Gaming chip, But like everybody says stay away from emachines! Posted by: TrowaBarton I second that... build your own and come to the forum if you need help Posted by: Djadragon ONLY for gaming!! but emachine......aww sux Posted by: Borgmeister Oh man dont ever consider one of those piles of juck, they dont even bother attaching an AGP slot to the motherboard. **** cheapskates Posted by: Lone Wolf [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Borgmeister [/i] [B]Oh man dont ever consider one of those piles of juck, they dont even bother attaching an AGP slot to the motherboard. **** cheapskates [/B][/QUOTE] Not all models of e-machines are like that. I saw some at Bestbuy with AGP slots. But i do agree that you should generally stay away from them unless you're on a tight budget. Posted by: navin AMD Rules man.. especially gaming.. Posted by: kboy I wouldn't pay 1,600.00 for that rig, There's no specifics, Ram type, Mobo etc...You can build one **** of a box for that much coin. Posted by: ADZ I was listening to a salesmen from futureshop spend 10 mins trying to convince me why I should get an emachine. APPARANTLY... The company has been "reshuffled" and they are under new management bla bla bla...long story short, they are SUPPOSED to be better then what they used to be...and what they used to be was crap :p Posted by: OIDanTheManIO amd, amd, amd Posted by: ohGrFreak I had a newer eMachine with an AGP slot, it's too bad you couldn't use the darn thing, it's all proprietary. I dulled out over 200 bucks for a nice Nvidia card just to hook it up for it to not work, no matter what order I installed the drivers, even with XP that's usually supposed to find the correct drivers anyway. My system failed and would not boot unless I removed the drivers and card. Since the eMachine, I'm all about getting a custom comp built for me. That way you know you can upgrade, and you know exactly what you get, built to spec. Posted by: Blind_Arrow [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ekÆsine [/i] [B]stay away from emachines, look to see what HP/ Compaq or Dell offer instead. [/B][/QUOTE] Dell never made AMD based system (wonder why), AMD is little tough to configure, once configured, it becomes tough to beat. I had once (my souul decision) where everybody told me CONS only about AMD, built myself AMD, other than my own decision, I have been told my the processor vendor that once you made system with AMD, you wont turn back to Intel (he was right) , after that I have chenged around 6 systems in 1.5 year time, and 4 of them were AMD's. I had AMD system before, and I still miss it. this time had to specially made intel due to HT technology for my Photoshop/Premiere, else P4C800 came with very good memory bypass architecture. Posted by: Jerry Edwards Getting an AMD will be one heck of an upgrage from a Celeron. Check in at a computer store and see what they have in the way of kits. You can save money that way and get a choice of different features that you require for your particular purpose. Do like the other posts above recommended and stay away from e-machines. They are nothing but trouble. Forget about the 2.66 that someone mentioned to you, It is probably the processor speed. The design of the processor is as important as the speed. For programming, You may want to look to the future and spend the extra bucks on a 64 bit processor so that you can run your programs on a machine that it is designed for. Just a thought. Jerry Posted by: overclocker1 Dude just build ur own pc like everybody else said. Trust me it will come out cheaper. Yes AMD RULES!!! Please Visit the Online Configurator, Email Hosting, Internet Marketing , Computer Schools , Software for Real Estate , AAOutlook , Search Engine Site |