Thread: AMD or Intel?

Originally Posted by Harakimi

I just got my new desktop and it's SWEET! <3

Core2 6600, 2g ram with 1066 fsb, nvidia 8800gts with 320mb memory, antec casket etc etc. Not to mention new logitech g15 keyboard, laser mouse and g25 racing wheel. I'm in heaven!

What size of hard drive did you get and brand of processor ?

Hopefully, you got AMD...

Originally Posted by saltysurprise

Why AMD???

I personally think AMD makes a better processor (especially if he is a gamer) at a much better price.

Originally Posted by DanicaRules

What size of hard drive did you get and brand of processor ?

Hopefully, you got AMD...

Core2 6600 INTEL

I have 3 drives. 160g sata2 for windows and 2 x 500g sata2 hard drives for other stuff. These drives are superb, absolutely noiseless. And when it comes to the CASE, the Antec is just sooo coool, it's dual chambers isolate the power supply and CPU into separate cooling zones with up to 5 fans (I got 4). Three-layer sound-deadening panels dampen noise very well, not to mention It's made out of aluminium so it looks good.
Absolutely the best case I've ever had or seen.

Vista is performing slightly slower than xp (imo), and it's very performance comsuming product. Now with only explorer on, I have already 29% of my 2g ram used, so maybe I'm going to get me 2 gigs more at some point.

Tested this new game Crysis yesterday and it runs pretty well. With highest graphic settings you would need a computer from future tho. Today I might have time to dload rFactor and give my g25 a test.

Originally Posted by DarkLord

cool config harakimi..

IMO AMD sucks for a developer. Intel is way better in performance.

Have you looked at that new AMD Quad-Core Phenom chip ? It sounds sweet. Its their new "spider" promotion.

Originally Posted by Harakimi

Now with only explorer on, I have already 29% of my 2g ram used, so maybe I'm going to get me 2 gigs more at some point.

Well, unused RAM is worthless RAM.

I remember back in the good old days when I ran my trusty old Amiga and had purchased a whooping 16 Megs of RAM to it to give it a total of 18 Mb. The really only thing that did was to always give me 16 Mb of unused RAM (if I didn't run any 3D apps or so) until I decided to copy all OS files to a RAM disk at startup. That meant something like 90% of the memory used at all time but it gave me one hell of a fast system as there was no need for any hard drive access for system functions anymore.

Now.... how do I copy Vista to RAM?

Originally Posted by Driverdb

Well, unused RAM is worthless RAM.

Heh, true. Dloaded rFactor today but didn't have time to test g25. I was able to run the game with full graphs, thats nice.