The Best Processor For A Gamer...

[Blam-O!]

My next system will have to be an AMD 939 FX53 w/ fsb800mhz, 1gz hyper transport and 1mb L2 cache. It blows Intel into the ground!!!

As They Say,

"AMD Me!"

And Buy a video card with 512mb, (When they deceide to make it).

like eVGA.com, e-GeForce 6800 ULTRA, 256MB DDR3 (PCI Express)

twinX DDR2, 2gb pc800

ANd find a good MB from Asus.

That would be SSSWWEEEEEEEETTTT!!!!!!

That wouldn't cost too much......

(And Then I Woke Up...)

[prathapml]

Put together an AMD Athlon64 FX, an nForce3-Pro MoBo, an nVidia GeForce FX6800 gfx, 2 gigs of DDR 433 memory, a 15,000 RPM HD........

Wake up, buddy....... *pinches self*

[Lolly]

My CPU isnt on the list, it is AMD XP2600+, runs on 333FSB
I got 1GB RAM and a very lame graphic card; GeForce-Ti4200 128mb,
which Im going to upgrade the next.

Money is teh issue for me, I cannot afford to run after the Best Gear possible,
allthought I've been in sites like Ali[url="http://www.alienware.com/Configurator_Pages/area-51_alx.aspx?SysCode=PC-AREA51ALX-D&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT"]Alienware[/url] to drool over on cool PC's, I think paying 5 grands for a PC sounds a bit silly.

The PC is the worst to put your money on, it will lose the value incredibly fast.
I found out that running about 1 -2 years "behind" the latest Top Gear is so much
cheaper. Plus, all the Games and apps got the patches etc. when finally I got the hardware
to run them.

For example, I have the Doom3 here but I wont be installing it before I get me a new Graphic card,
and thats gonna be in about 6 months. Sure, the x800 etc. looks cool but c'mon,
take a look at the prize tag and guess how much its going to drop only in 6 months.
It is extremely expensive to ride on the latest gear.

Another point I'd like to make. When buying gear I can use weeks on planning
what hardware Im going to get, reading the reviews etc. I found that checking
different hardware forums for extra first-hand opinions from un-biased, regular ppl
is really usefull,
if there is a problem with a , say, motherboard you should find about it
[i]before[/i] you buy the thing. Google is pretty cool for finding rants also.
I just want to be sure my hardware works.

New Gear is more likely to have some Monday-Models or Baby-Diseases,
I wont be buying the Latest Graphic Card or MoBo for that reason also,
it is better to wait for the second or third generation versions and
you'll get a working/stable hardware.

I think Totally New Hardware are like Proto Types, the competition is so hard that they
have to come up with New Stuff and they'll likely to mess it up in process.

laters...

[prathapml]

Hey, Lolly's been the first one here to mention an Alienware-built PC.

Go there dudes, and fetch yourself an "Area-51" machine - if price is no issues.

[Famer]

you could run a dual xeon or dual amd cpu's but games dont support dual cpu's

[arkady187]

I still think the best processor for the money is the 2500+ overclocked. With the mobile version it overclocks quite well. 2.2 ghz on air with no voltage increase. (Almost a 400 mhz increase) And at a cost of 65-80 dollars depending on where you get it, its hard to beat that. Even with a stick! Although a Amd 64 fx 55 or an intel 3.6 ghz Extreme Edition would be a very welcome sight in my hands!

[Synapse]

286 processors own.... Possible frequencies are: 6-8-10-12-15-20-25 MHz!!!!!


heh i got an amd athlon XP 2400+ seems too run just fine...

[Blam-O!]

Looks like the AMD Athlon 64 FX is taking 1st place...

Too bad the price takes last place

[SiMoNsAyS]

[quote name='Crispy' date='May 27 2004, 11:34 AM']For gaming I would definitly choose an highend AMD 64, some 1-2GB DDR500 RAM and an Geforce 6800U / Radeon X800 XT ...

Would cost a small fortune thou ...  [/quote]
same for me

[Gagorian]

Athlon64 3500+.

A good deal of bang for the buck. (And those new Winchester cores own!)

[Blam-O!]

[quote name='Gagorian' date='Jan 7 2005, 04:41 PM']Athlon64 3500+.

A good deal of bang for the buck. (And those new Winchester cores own!)[/quote]
Aren't the Winchester cores less L2 cache? i wonder if it really makes a difference...

EDIT:
(Wahho 50 POST!!!)

Edited January 11, 2005 by Blam-O!

[Porn Loader]

[quote name='Blam-O!' date='Jan 11 2005, 12:46 PM'][quote name='Gagorian' date='Jan 7 2005, 04:41 PM'] Athlon64 3500+.

A good deal of bang for the buck. (And those new Winchester cores own!)[/quote]
Aren't the Winchester cores less L2 cache? i wonder if it really makes a difference...

EDIT:
(Wahho 50 POST!!!) [/quote]
90% of the a64's are now 512 L2. only ones that arent are the fx's, the dtr's, the 754 3700+, and the 939 4000+.

the only (barely) noticable difference with the L2 and gaming would be a higher minimum framerate, and by only a couple of frames.

[Blam-O!]

[quote name='Porn Loader' date='Jan 12 2005, 08:12 AM']90% of the a64's are now 512 L2. only ones that arent are the fx's, the dtr's, the 754 3700+, and the 939 4000+.

the only (barely) noticable difference with the L2 and gaming would be a higher minimum framerate, and by only a couple of frames.[/quote]
Thanks for the tip

Now if I only had the money to buy whatever I wanted...

[LoLo]

Just like cubic inches in a race car.... more = faster. Faster uasually wins.

It basicly comes down to the size of your wallet, and unfortunatly mine is rather small and empty, so I'm stuck with a hand-me-down AMD XP2000, a bottle necked MSI/VIA mobo that would serve as a flying disk in a B horror movie as well as it does a mobo, 512MB of "lo octane unleaded ram", a GF 5700 256mb viv card along with a few other things I found in the trash.... (no joke, a good portion of this and my 3 other networked boxes all came out of rubbish bins - Recycle man!)but she's a runner and I like it well till something better materalizes on my doorstep


Bang for the buck is quite high since total cost was under $200 (200gb drive) for me rofl

[Stead]

i have to say, i believe the P4 extreme addition would be the best processer, although a bit unrealistic cuz of its price.

i myself have a P4 2.8 with a radeon 9800, that runs everything fine need more memory tho 512mb, a couple of years ago i would of laughed if i knew someone who had that much memory and said thats whatt sslowing it down, i tired ma friends doom 3, memory shot up to 980mb on extreme graphics settings! i couldn't get over that

this motherboard is a Aopen 865 chipset thing, second hand as it didn't have 2 sata cables the customer returned it, i got it half price and it had never been used! motherboard was still in its sealed bag thing!

also i then bought my cpu roughly 60% off the bran new price as the person i bought it off decided they was too rich and bought a 3.2 chip a week after buying the 2.8

decent P4 motherboard and excellent P4 chip for £150 (that was a lot 6 months ago assuming its cheaper now )

after months of putting off getting a new video card i got the 9800 for £120 off some site that was doing a special offer on them

i have to say, anyone who still insists P4's are rubbish compared to amd after using a HT chip needs help, i can't get over the difference the HT makes, its amazing! although saying thati've never used an athlon 64, but the price is way to much for me. (ps, 2000 run painfully slow with HT enabled, but after reading up thats due to the way it finds logical processors or something wierd, but its great in xp!)

if your loaded/won the lottery buy at least 4 machines, 2 P4 extreme editions one with a top end nvidia, then one with the top end ati, then do the same with the top end amd 64. (that way no one can get angry at you )