Processor advice 66 Responses

Last post: 7 years, 8 months ago | Thread started: Sep 10, 05, 4:24 p.m.

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• thismanslife

  Ok, so i'm looking to buy a custom build PC, i have around £1000 to spend (maybe a shade more if the specs super good)... but i'm not sure what processor to go for. I want as much power as possible, obviously, as high up there as I can get for my money.

  With everything else I want in the spec, and in my budget, I'm looking at maybe an AMD 64-bit dual core X2 4400+

  But, is this wise? Is 64 bit the way to go? And the dual core thing? What about the Intel D? And the whole Intel HT thing... I'm lost.

  I'll mainly use it for:
  Photoshop (heavy heavy use)
  Illustrator
  Flash
  Dreamweaver
  ...etc

  And occasional, but maybe more in the future:
  Premiere
  After effects
  3D Studio

  Ok, lay it on me... :)

  Sep 10, 05, 4:24 p.m. – Permalink

• shaft

  "But, is this wise? Is 64 bit the way to go? And the dual core thing? What about the Intel D? And the whole Intel HT thing... I'm lost."

  The marketoids were wise to deprecate the MHz count relevance, adding some new fancy named factors to puzzle us.
  Just make sure the machine suits the wallpaper in the room ;)

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 05, 4:34 p.m. – Permalink

• thismanslife

  LOL

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 05, 4:35 p.m. – Permalink

• Crouwel

  haha.

  right on, shaft.

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 05, 4:37 p.m. – Permalink

• shaft

  Hold on for a few months, Pentium equipped Mac will be the only machine to buy, haha.
  At least that's what I'm hoping for.

  And when I get one, I'll make sure my new wallpaper matches the design ;)

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 05, 4:43 p.m. – Permalink

• NegativeSpace

  Id go for the amd dual core over the pentium d. Most benchmarks I have looked at show 3800+ 2.0 ghz outdoing a pentium D 3.2 ghz, to give you an idea.

  I just helped my friend just built a sweet dual core system, get a nice nforce4 motherboard, and some tested ram and your set.

  IMO Id definitely build this instead of waiting for any power mac, based on my experience with my 4 year old (extremely stable i might add) AMD setup, vs, my g4 Powerbook, and misc dual g5s.

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 05, 4:48 p.m. – Permalink

• thismanslife

  Cool, thanks for the feedback, sounds like i'm on the right lines :)

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 05, 5:11 p.m. – Permalink