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Hello people with great insights, I need some advise and suggestions.
I am wanting to get another computer and after reading many of your choice comments, I was swayed from INTEL to AMD mainly to the Athlon 1.2 GIG.
I know we have all heard of the dreaded notion of AMD not being compatible with many softwares in the past and (may have some today compared to INTEL) There was also patches and updates needed for K6 in the past in order to run programs properly.
So here's my question, If I were to get an Athlon 1.2 Gig with say a A bit AV7 MOBO (something like that) Nvidia GeForce Ultra, 128 meg DDR ram (maybe more), at least 7,200 rmp HD, Creative 5.1 soundcard, 3 com network card.
Will I have any trouble in running normal applications like browsing, office work, internet applications the norm.. I dont' really need a high performance machine but just one that will play SOF nicely.
You see, my worry is that I may need to download patches for this and that just because it is an AMD.
I apologise for thelack of confidence in AMD but I need more input from poeple who are runnign similar machine configuration to assure what I am planning to get is going to run smoothly and does not require future updates on who the CPU runs.
Oh.. I am eyeing to get e DVD drive for the system as well. Also, cooling for the CPU is a big thing to worry about from what I have read, people putting on a crappy heat sink that totally screws up the DIE on the CPU... that's just unaccepteable.. anybody recommend a good heat sink? Liquid transfer is better i have heard.. Is that right?
Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
70% AMD ----30% INTEL... Undecided but most probably AMD in terms of what I have read so far.
Mike-NZ
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Smilley on 12/04/00 03:43 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
I am wanting to get another computer and after reading many of your choice comments, I was swayed from INTEL to AMD mainly to the Athlon 1.2 GIG.
I know we have all heard of the dreaded notion of AMD not being compatible with many softwares in the past and (may have some today compared to INTEL) There was also patches and updates needed for K6 in the past in order to run programs properly.
So here's my question, If I were to get an Athlon 1.2 Gig with say a A bit AV7 MOBO (something like that) Nvidia GeForce Ultra, 128 meg DDR ram (maybe more), at least 7,200 rmp HD, Creative 5.1 soundcard, 3 com network card.
Will I have any trouble in running normal applications like browsing, office work, internet applications the norm.. I dont' really need a high performance machine but just one that will play SOF nicely.
You see, my worry is that I may need to download patches for this and that just because it is an AMD.
I apologise for thelack of confidence in AMD but I need more input from poeple who are runnign similar machine configuration to assure what I am planning to get is going to run smoothly and does not require future updates on who the CPU runs.
Oh.. I am eyeing to get e DVD drive for the system as well. Also, cooling for the CPU is a big thing to worry about from what I have read, people putting on a crappy heat sink that totally screws up the DIE on the CPU... that's just unaccepteable.. anybody recommend a good heat sink? Liquid transfer is better i have heard.. Is that right?
Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
70% AMD ----30% INTEL... Undecided but most probably AMD in terms of what I have read so far.
Mike-NZ
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Smilley on 12/04/00 03:43 PM.</EM></FONT></P>