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well im just about ready to upgrade, and ive gone through alot of possible upgrades. well im just not sure what to go with. here are my 2 choices for an upgrade one amd one intel. please read the specs of each before posting which one is better   amd build: amd phenom 9600 x4 be/2 gigs of ddr2 1066/biostar TFORCE TA790GX A2+/nvidia (xfx)9600gt ...

Greetings,  I'm planning to purchase, and assemble my main computer over the summer, and the upcoming months and I would like some of your experience and feedback on parts of my draft build. This isn't my first build, really, I've built other people's and helped built other people's computer's, but I've never bult from scratch my ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started a formal investigation into the pricing practices of Intel. Advance Micro Devices (AMD) has long requested this to be investigated. AMD claims that Intel has artificially lowered the prices on CPU. In fact AMD is already suing Intel under the antitrust statutes making claims ...

I just now read that nVidia acquired Ageia...I thought that between Ageia physics and ''true'' quad core processing that AMD/ATI stood a chance of redemption by going a different route technologically. Around the time of socket 939 (seems so long ago) AMD seemed untouchable. Although ATI took the backseat graphically around that time, building ...

I Have some questions about Intel and their product timeline/discription and AMD. I know intel has the new skulltraill 771 board out and I am curious as to what direction they are heading for in terms of socket changes and types of ram as well as if they will erver have an onboard memory controller. AMD has a great platform with it`s new 760g ...

I apologize ahead of time for invoking any fanboyism or beating any dead horses, but I'm honestly curious. Pentium E2160 Athlon 64 X2 4000+ I'm going for a budget build, with gaming being the most demanding purpose of my computer. Everything I've read so far on these forums indicates that AMD is generally the way to go for budget builds. If ...

Well, with the release of AMD's new quadcore, dubbed Phenom, I think it is finally time for me to write up a blog detailing some pros cons, and what to expect. It appears there are some flaws with the phenom core, that when a certain sequence of code is executed while the machine is under load, it will lock the processor. This flaw was also found ...

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I'm new at all this computer and internet stuff, even though I have been in the Computer Hardware Industry for 20+ years. PCB Desiger by trade. Worked on Unix Mainframes thru PC's. Used almost all OS's with the exception of MAC. Looking at the possibility of working for myself. Trying to decide what to do with the ''Rest of my life''. Currently ...

So, I have this whole Aliens theme going with the names of my boxes...  BISHOP (main desktop)Alienware Aurora 7500Asus A8N-SLI DeluxeAMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR-RAMDual nVidia GeForce 7800 GT 256MBCreative Soundblaster Audigy2 ZSLite-On 16X DVD-RAM w/ LightScribe2x Hitachi 250GB 7200RPM SATAII HDDNEWT (laptop)Dell ...