Re: Buying New PC

thanks John, that's just the sort of review I was looking for.

On 12/5/05, Jones, John (US) <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Intel: Avoid at all costs: Celeron anything.
>       Worst at power consumption & heat generated: Pentium 4 chips.
>       Best Intel chip for a desktop: Pentium M w/2MB cache.
>
> AMD: There are Sempron's (Duron successor) that support X86-64.  Quite a
> steal if you want to play with 64-bit computing in the near future.
> However, Sempron's aren't as fast as the regular Athlon 64s.  IIRC they
> have less cache.
>
> Adequate: Intel Pentium 4 & AMD Sempron.
> Better: Intel Pentium M and AMD Athlon/Athlon 64.
> Best: AMD Athlon 64 X2 (dual-core).
>
> Recommendation: Athlon 64.  Best bang/buck and reasonable
> future-proofing with 64-bit support.
>
> Consider this:
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=02108
> 67 coupled with
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824009056
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 2:10 PM
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> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Buying New PC
>
> I'm interested in this discussion too,
>
> specifically, which processors models are 'adequate', 'good', 'best'
> and 'avoid at all costs'
>
> Costco has a $900 deal on a loaded Dell Pentium 4 with a 17 inch
> monitor.
>
> On 12/5/05, Mark Allen <allenmar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > looking for recommendations would prefer to buy "everything" from one
> source:
> >  Cost is a primary consideration also
> >
> >
> >  1.  Use will be 80% internet access from home, mostly email, IM,web
> browsing, connect to remote iSeries.
> >  2.  Need 17" monitor prefer 19" but space an issue as is cost (?) for
> a flat panel?
> >  3.  60 GB preferred as minimum disk
> >  4.  Mostly will be running MS Office stuff from the PC side
> > (Powerpoint, Access, Excel, Word,maybe some web page design)  5.  no
> > need for DVD but need CD R/W (mostly for archive/backups)  6.  No need
>
> > for ethernet capability (yet)  7.  At least 1 USB port for connecting
> > a "thumb" drive
> >
> >  Thanks.........
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> >  Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less
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