I need to get my friend to not buy an P4 based pc. They wont believe me that they need an AMD 64! The pc is for some gaming and work, NOT VIDEO EDITING.
Please tell them, thay wont listen! I need good solind reasons for them!
Thanks.
I need to get my friend to not buy an P4 based pc. They wont believe me that they need an AMD 64! The pc is for some gaming and work, NOT VIDEO EDITING.
Please tell them, thay wont listen! I need good solind reasons for them!
Thanks.
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mmmm its a good start, bu i need more than just gaming, some marketing gibberish like u get fed about intl, that should work
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If I were you, I'd just give your advice, with good reasons, and leave it be. There's no point trying to persuade somebody else to do something if they don't want to do it. If they make a mistake, it is their mistake to make.
The reason I'd give is that, from all the reviews on the internet I've seen, the Athlon 64s are faster in games - if you have an Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 of the same performance in games, the Athlon 64 will cost less. If you really want to persuade somebody, I'd concentrate on the fact that Athlon 64s can save you money.
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
well actually, they are buying a pc, no minitor, just the tower. They have £800 to spead, whats the best, it has to be pre built.(eg dell, mesh etc)
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AMD 64s are more effecient, use less power and create less heat. Therefore quieter and cost less electricity to run
well, u can get your friend[s?] to go to the internet and read some reviews [proper ones, not fanboy sites]
like Agent said, if your friends are still ignorant, its their loss
not to mention the 64bit capability [<-------- average-Joes and non computer technis love this]
lower heat output, better performance in average, lower prices, what more could u ask for
Just let him buy the P4, he will know how crappy his P4 is when he gets it. Make him learn the hard way.
And, selling one less CPU won't make much of a difference for Intel.
Workstation 1: Intel i7 950 @ 3.8Ghz / X58 / 12GB DDR3-1600 / HD4870 512MB / Antec P180
Workstation 2: Intel C2Q Q9550 @ 3.6Ghz / X38 / 4GB DDR2-800 / 8400GS 512MB / Open Air
Workstation 3: Intel Xeon X3350 @ 3.2Ghz / P35 / 4GB DDR2-800 / HD4770 512MB / Shuttle SP35P2
HTPC: AMD Athlon X4 620 @ 2.6Ghz / 780G / 4GB DDR2-1000 / Antec Mini P180 White
Mobile Workstation: Intel C2D T8300 @ 2.4Ghz / GM965 / 3GB DDR2-667 / DELL Inspiron 1525 / 6+6+9 Cell Battery
Display (Monitor): DELL Ultrasharp 2709W + DELL Ultrasharp 2001FP
Display (Projector): Epson TW-3500 1080p
Speakers: Creative Megaworks THX550 5.1
Headphones: Etymotic hf2 / Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 Pro
Storage: 8x2TB Hitachi @ DELL PERC 6/i RAID6 / 13TB Non-RAID Across 12 HDDs
Consoles: PS3 Slim 120GB / Xbox 360 Arcade 20GB / PS2
nowt wrong with a P4 though. A64 is faster in lots of stuff, but a P4 still goes like a missile. Leave the fella be...he'll be happier with his own choice.
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
perhaps ignorance is bliss
Plus, if he gets the AMD, regardless of whether the first problem that he gets is that he clicked "OK" on a "route my calls via a dodgy premium rate connection in Mongolia" box in a pr0n site, it'll be all the fault of that "weird processor you made me buy...I knew I should have got a proper pentimium...<whine>" etc, etc... Don't go there. Let him get the P4 or I guarantee you'll be cleaning his machine for free, for ever.
Dunno why everyone is going ape over the intel platform, heres a tip do what I did, forget prescott and look into the older Northwood chips, they perform a hell of a lot better than the prescotts in my experience a little digging about you will find 3.2 northwoods for as little as 60 quid. As for crap for games I dunno where that comes from, yes they aren't as fast as A64's in games but they aren't slow either.
My p4 3.2 with a 6800GT pushes 110fps with full details, 1600x1200 with full aa and as in half life 2 and cs-s. Let your mate get what he is happy with give it 6 months he will prolly be upgrading again for the new nvidia sli nforce chipset for intel
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