Hi,
I'm not a complete hardware novice, but frankly, motherboard configurations have always confused me.
I can get discounted Viglen PC's from where I work, and I'm thinking about getting myself an upgrade. They offer quite a good range of configurations, but I'm left scratching my head over what to pick as a motherboard. I've got the following options:
* Intel D915GLVG
* Intel D915GHA
* Intel D945GTP
* Intel D925XECV2
* A viglen model supporting two Xeon processors
Now I'm a home user and I do quite a bit of multimedia work on the PC (Flash, image and video editing) and I like to play games now and again. So that's what I need to be able to power. I'm planning to sit 3GHz 2MB Cache Pentium 4 processor at the heart of the machine
The first question is, with the four Intel motherboards (which are listed in increasing order of price) what is my money actually buying? Better performance? More upgradability? Other things? Let me know
Second question is, the D945GTP is listed in the Viglen catalogue as having a "stable hard disk image" - what the hell does this mean?
Third question is, given my requirements is there any point in my going for a dual processor setup with the Xeons? Apparently you can choose to have a single or dual configuration for the machine before it's delivered - what's the advantage of each config?
Fourth question is, given my requierments should I just ignore the saving I can get through work and buy another PC with an AMD processor instead? I'm given to understand the current AMD chipsets offer a fairly considerable performance boost over Intel ones - is this correct?
Cheers,
Matt
I'm not a complete hardware novice, but frankly, motherboard configurations have always confused me.
I can get discounted Viglen PC's from where I work, and I'm thinking about getting myself an upgrade. They offer quite a good range of configurations, but I'm left scratching my head over what to pick as a motherboard. I've got the following options:
* Intel D915GLVG
* Intel D915GHA
* Intel D945GTP
* Intel D925XECV2
* A viglen model supporting two Xeon processors
Now I'm a home user and I do quite a bit of multimedia work on the PC (Flash, image and video editing) and I like to play games now and again. So that's what I need to be able to power. I'm planning to sit 3GHz 2MB Cache Pentium 4 processor at the heart of the machine
The first question is, with the four Intel motherboards (which are listed in increasing order of price) what is my money actually buying? Better performance? More upgradability? Other things? Let me know
Second question is, the D945GTP is listed in the Viglen catalogue as having a "stable hard disk image" - what the hell does this mean?
Third question is, given my requirements is there any point in my going for a dual processor setup with the Xeons? Apparently you can choose to have a single or dual configuration for the machine before it's delivered - what's the advantage of each config?
Fourth question is, given my requierments should I just ignore the saving I can get through work and buy another PC with an AMD processor instead? I'm given to understand the current AMD chipsets offer a fairly considerable performance boost over Intel ones - is this correct?
Cheers,
Matt