Re: Getting a new PC
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 22:22
I have not recently bought an AMD cpu, strictly because I happen to have a socket 775 motherboard that I'd hate to replace. It's served me well for like 5 years, through 3 different CPUs, 4 graphics cards, 2 sets of memory, etc. A good motherboard is like treasure, I hate to throw it away.
Otherwise I would be using a Phenom 2 right now probably, just due to price:performance.
That aside, why do you recommend Nvidia over ATI? I have used a 4870 and a 4890 for the last couple of years without issue. More recently I've been playing Spring a fair bit as well, no problems there either. TBH I think there's just a lot of misconceptions... ATI is doing very well right now, the merger with AMD has finally started to pay off.
Granted, it's not really hard to build the PC and make it turn on. To get the best performance you need to know a lot more. And if you have even more knowledge, you can get identical or similar performance for much less money.
Otherwise I would be using a Phenom 2 right now probably, just due to price:performance.
That aside, why do you recommend Nvidia over ATI? I have used a 4870 and a 4890 for the last couple of years without issue. More recently I've been playing Spring a fair bit as well, no problems there either. TBH I think there's just a lot of misconceptions... ATI is doing very well right now, the merger with AMD has finally started to pay off.
Don't make him blow up his new computer... I've fixed like a billion computers that "experts" have built themselves, trust me, there are a ton of things you can do wrong when you have no idea what you're doing.ralphie wrote:It's really hard to mess a PC build up. If it doesn't fit, it's not supposed to go there.
Granted, it's not really hard to build the PC and make it turn on. To get the best performance you need to know a lot more. And if you have even more knowledge, you can get identical or similar performance for much less money.
