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Well thats one thing settled then...NO AMD for me.
You ask for help then reject the help people kindly offered. You go and buy some Intel Crap, it wont bother me but Ill think long and hard before I spend time in getting evidence, picking out computers for you, showing you a lot of computer parts. Ta for nowHR2 said:Well thats one thing settled then...NO AMD for me.
You weren't the only one to offer help...Gareth Hale said:You ask for help then reject the help people kindly offered.
Lewisham2221 said:You weren't the only one to offer help...
AS many others have said, for the types of things that HR2 wants to do, Intel processors generally perform better and are more stable, despite whatever facts and figures you might be reading from the AMD website.
Not only the AMD website, Quite a few websites. I have done many benchmarks before.Lewisham2221 said:You weren't the only one to offer help...
AS many others have said, for the types of things that HR2 wants to do, Intel processors generally perform better and are more stable, despite whatever facts and figures you might be reading from the AMD website.
Gareth Hale said:You ask for help then reject the help people kindly offered. You go and buy some Intel Crap, it wont bother me but Ill think long and hard before I spend time in getting evidence, picking out computers for you, showing you a lot of computer parts. Ta for now
Tom said:Now here's to rub salt in the wound.
You claim Intel are not stable.
I have a Linux server in this house and has been running currently from an uptime command, 237 days 13:53:05. I once had an AMD server, and it was hosting this site. It had a far worse reliability rating in my opinion as the kernel kept segfaulting regularly. Mainly as a result of the AMD processor being unable to process the Apache system fast enough. RailUK has around 3000 page views a day and manages fine on the Intel processor we are currently on.
It's a Intel Dual Xeon 3.2GHz set up in a VPS layout if anyone is interested. 2GB RAM.
The AMD processor (which Gareth claims is just as good as Intel), the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ should be the same as the Intel. Not at all.
AMD is PROVEN to be good at gaming. What Bob requires is not a gaming machine, just a simple light-usage machine which should allow simple tasks and the odd simple game. Intel is fine for that, and they are cheaper.
Remember, I suspect Bob would rather spend less on a fully organised machine than building his own machine with a chance of completely mucking it up.
A java application will run in Mac OS X as seemlessly as a native application. No need to download JVM like you would for windows as Apple go to the trouble for you and enchance it.Gareth Hale said:I also agree with that, you can use Tune-up in Windows or Dos in DOS to recover stuff, Windows XP has a fantasticly high compatablility rating also, where Apple Doesn't.
Where is the L1 cache on an intel core processor then?Intel doesnt have its Memory bus built into the processor which equals SLOWER PROCESSING SPEED as it has to go through the motherboard bus.
Now this is just silly.AMD 64 + Windows XP is the perfect combo!
Intel + Apple is a worse combo ever known to man
AMD 64 + Apple Dont think there is one
Intel + Windows XP = Crappy Combo, Slow, Sluggish and non responsive!
MS Word was already preloaded into the %WINROOT%\prefetch folder. I'm glad you enjoy that feature. How often do you have to reinstall to maintain prefetch performance?I thought id time Mircrosoft Word loading a 3MB file today, it took 1.187 seconds to open it!
I thought id time Microsoft Word loading a blank document, lets just say, it was so fast that I can not time it.
Intel cannot even compete with that!
Nothing, I just feel sorry for the windows users out there. Can't remember the amount of times I found people who had been affected by the windows xp / 2000 vunerability that allowed anyone to load a virus on your computer from the net.How much money are AMD and Apple paying Gareth Hale and Nick W, respectively?
class 313 said:BUT we were talking about CPUs hows that got to do with a CPU?
Mac OS and Linux aren't immune from exploits and the like though, but are simply less targetted due to Windows being the 'norm'.Nick W said:Nothing, I just feel sorry for the windows users out there. Can't remember the amount of times I found people who had been affected by the windows xp / 2000 vunerability that allowed anyone to load a virus on your computer from the net.
Nick W said:A java application will run in Mac OS X as seemlessly as a native application. No need to download JVM like you would for windows as Apple go to the trouble for you and enchance it.
An application using the X11 toolkit, and which will compile under linux, BSD, etc will often compile under mac (and there's a large amount of people who make tweaks for the program to run on all X11 systems including mac os X.
class 313 said:BUT we were talking about CPUs hows that got to do with a CPU?
Lewisham2221 said:Mac OS and Linux and immune from exploits and the like though, but are simply less targetted due to Windows being the 'norm'.
class 313 said:[sarcastic]OH NO! The shock horror! thats a big enough reason to go to apple/[sarcastic]
It doesnt take long to download it.
Tom B said:Do you knwo anything about computers?
That's one reason. They're also much more secure - look at the fact that you don't use root all the time, the lack of IE, etc.
Have you not noticed the different in performance between a normal app and a Java applet under Windoze?
HR2 said:All I originally asked was for advice on a good basic multimedia system. This seems to have sunken into a 'do this, so that' fight between 3 members here.
For the record I have had bad experiences with both AMD and Firefox. Firefox is absolute pants with all it's hidden stuff reporting back to whoever. Maybe not so vulnerable as IE but just as rubbishy.
class 313 said:Firefox doesnt have hidden stuff, FF is great, pop upblocker is great and its safer than IE.
I say Fire fox is better than Internet explorer by far
class 313 said:May i ask why?
class 313 said:That is very true, and HR2 all you gotta do is press CTRL + T
Tom said:Bob, FireFox is one of the best browsers around - but if you don't like it there are other (and some better) alternatives.
They include Opera which is a very good browser and generally loads pages quicker than other browsers.
Lewisham2221 said:Mac OS and Linux aren't immune from exploits and the like though, but are simply less targetted due to Windows being the 'norm'.
Tom B said:That's one reason. They're also much more secure - look at the fact that you don't use root all the time, the lack of IE, etc.
I belive this is IE technology run under the AOL interface. It might have changed since versions 7 and under though.At the mo I am using AOL's effort.