Author: Martin Andersen2
Date: 10:07:50 01/27/06
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On January 27, 2006 at 12:44:59, Frank Wies wrote: >On January 27, 2006 at 10:16:02, Ted Summers wrote: > >>Gateway Model GT5034 >>AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ >> >>www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7623896&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat60700050019&id=1130986103611 > >There are some things you should consider. First, what is the speed of the >memory. If it is not DDR400 or PC 3200 it will gate the performance of the CPU. > It's PC 3200 as you can see. >The hard drive should be spinning at least 7200 RPM and if possible have 8M >Cache for faster tablebase transfers during endgames. The Western Digital Raptor >is spinning at 10K and has the best data transfer rate available. Harddrives has been spinning at least 7200 for several years now. Only laptops has slower drives. > >Get the best video card that you can afford. A high end video card offloads the >CPU to tend to more important matters :-) No, only if you are going to play the latest 3D games is it necessary with a high end card. > >If you can spend more for the CPU and the other hardware related issues are >resoloved, it will future proof you for a few months. > >The last thing to mention is that DDR2 533 will be in high volume production >this year. The same Athlon CPU with the DDR2 533 may improve performance by >as much as 30% with no other changes, so you may want to wait until that >transition takes place. That's not correct, faster ram can't give such boosts. >Hope that this helps. >Frank Martin.
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