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Hello, I am going to be building a new computer for college in the next few months. I would like to get the fastest processor I can so that it will last a while. I know that the P4 is fastest by clock speed but i've heard so many bad things about it that I don't think I want it. I would like to get an AMD but I cannot seem to find when the Palimino will be released and at what speed. I would like to buy the processor by March if possible but will I only be able to get a 1.2gig Thunderbird? Have any of you heard anything about AMD's new desktop processor? Any information would be appritiated.

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Even if you did wait for the next top of the line CPUs you have 2 problems

1) usally the first couple months of any CPU's initial release, they're are many considerations for Motherboards, chipsets, working drivers, and resolving issues.

2) By the time you get comfortable with your new CPU and all issue been resolved, 2 generations of new chips or new boards would have gone by.

Solution:

The only time your computer wont last you long, is if you are one of those geeks, who has to play that game that wont come out for another 2 months, but they garantee you need to "get that card" or get that Chip.

if you want something to last you for stuff like office, cad, basically anything other than hardcore gamming or DVD ripping, and the likes, anything 700-750 and over will suffice, given least 128 megs of rams, (256 is good but will only improve your game performance by 7%, where as it improve office productivity alot more, since those benefit more on multitaskin in the rams) , a 72,000 RPM Harddrive, preferably IBM's type of drives.

Get something that'll fit your budget, for example I have a Duron 800 on an Asus K7V, 384Megs of rams, 61G Maxtor 54000RPM , 10G , and 13G Harddrives, with a Geforce DDR, and SoundBlaster Live! Platinum, keep in mind some of the parts I still have might even be hitting a year old, but it still does me great.

Good maintance, and building keeps it alive, not shear speed, keep in mind CPU isnt a speed factor, you gota research for good motherboards, efficient rams, and most important of all, a fast harddrive since thats where most of your bottleneck can occur.

Karl
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oh one more thing

pricewatch.com = find the lowest prices someone is offering for computer parts

resellerratings.com = if you find someone that offers a great price , be sure to check how others feel about them, to avoid running into a situation where they offer great prices, but might have terrible shipping, or bad return policy or such.
Karl
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Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)

 
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kb244 is dead right. CPU speed means little if you bottleneck elsewhere. My Duron 700 on Asus K7V runs rings around PIII 800eb's I am building for clients. This board has excellent support for ATA-100 drives @ 7200rpm and will allow lotsa tweaking if required. Keep your primary partition at around 5gb or less. Don't load lots of junky TSR's and defrag regular if you are a cd software addict.
Enjoy.....Sshaker
 
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Well I plan on getting the fastest i can get. I bought this PII 450 in OCT 98' and it has served me well with a few upgrades. I paid $3400 for it then, top of the line, with printer, so I am not really concerned with saving money as long as i can get it for under $2600. I want it to last and I do play a lot of games so I want a computer as fast as I can get. I will probably get a 60-80gig 7200 RPM hard drive, 128mb or more DDR ram, 72x cdrom, 16x or more CDRW, geforce2 GTS or ultra, and the best processor and motherboard i can get. If no one knows if anything faster than a t-bird will be out, will there be anything more than a 1.2gig t-bird?
 
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well for under 2,600 , goto monarchcomputer.com get one of their top of the line prebuilt systems, I trust them very much with AMD based systems, and I've bought my past two AMD Cpus from them, they have 3 years warrenty on everything, and they ware very very helpful if you have a problem.
Karl
kb244@kb244.com
Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)

 
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I'm not going to buy a prebuilt system, i'm going to build it myself. With some help from my friends who also know quite a bit about computers. I set my limit at $2600 but if I get a 1.2gig I can prolly keep it under $2200.
 
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if for hobby you can still get the parts seperate for them, and you can build a 1.2Ghtz System for under 1500, unless you plan to max it out with parts that are usally only 5% better than the 50% cheaper brother (like SBLive! Platinum only really differs from the Value! in livedrive and in software bundle)

I recomend

Tbird 1.2 (get the 1.0 if you want there really isnt much performance difference at all)
Asus K7V motherboard
PC133 Cas2 Rams
at least a 72000RPM ATA100 Harddrive
Geforce2 Ultra (if you really really want to go all out, if not just get the GF2 Pro or GTS)
Microsoft Intelimouse Explorer (or the logitech's blue laser mouse, or the Boomslang razor gamming mouse)

another poing, dont bother with LCD monitors, sure they look rather sweet, but you could get double the size with the flat surface on CRT monitors for almost half the cost, belive me those Trinitron models are good even if they are CRTs
Karl
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Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)

 
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