Re: [Slightlt OT] - PC mobos and memory.

["Shaf Ali" <shaf@xxxxxxxx>]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

My mistake I thought you were talking about the new dual core conroes hence
the reason why I was a bit suprised by thinking you were going for the
E6700
2.66ghz £350 wallet burner.

ps If any of you boys can afford it go conroe - you've added up the system
cost completed @ 500ish whereas on the AMD platform 500 will barely buy you
the cpu (Athlon FX62) !

Looks like it'll be an Intel year 2006 and early 2007.

pps I have yet to buy my first Intel CPU and it looks like the time is now
:o

<--------------- Shaf Ali
- 07855 300 360 - shaf@xxxxxxx - www.shaf.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:58 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [Slightlt OT] - PC mobos and memory.



Cheers Shaf but the processor you have listed is £260 (ish), the mobo
£160
(ish) and stick on 2Gb of DDR2 and that's another £140 (ish) -
£560 which is
about £400 more that I really want to spend! (£150 is as much as
I ever
spent on a mobo + processor previously as I don't "do" games.)

I'm not looking for cutting edge, just a sensible basic upgrade over my
current PC which is a P4 2.53Ghz with 1Gb DDR ... I went to put another 1Gb
stick in it the other day (to give 2Gb) and the second DDR slot gives
errors
(although the memory works fine in my other Athlon XP 2400+ / Athlon XP
2500+ machines). I could probably swap back to my XP 2500+ machine if I
really have to but I'd rather not.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Shaf Ali
> Sent: 26 July 2006 00:16
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [Slightlt OT] - PC mobos and memory.
>
> Defeats the object of the upgrade ! Guess there will be some
> mobos coming out that allow for this but I cant be ased to google.
>
> DDR2 plus a seriously solid processor is why AMD AM2 is now
> at a crippling disadvantage.
>
> Buy an E6600 @2.4ghz which is looking like the best bang for
> buck and use the saved cash to buy some DDR2 sticks.
>
> As we are in the easy phases of release - quality mobos may
> not be around so again you might have to fork out a fair bit
> for a crappy Intel board.
>
> I personally was thinking :
>
> E6600 + Intel Extreme D975bx + some DDR2
>
> Shaf
>
>
>
> From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:15 AM
> Subject: [ukha_d] [Slightlt OT] - PC mobos and memory.
>
>
> >
> > Anyone here know if the current crop of Pentium mobos for the
dual
> > core processors *HAVE* to use DDR2 RAM or can you still use
> DDR on them?
> >
> > I'm toying with upgrading my desktop PC mobo and processor to
> > something like a dual core 2.66GHz processor but would
> rather not have
> > to shell out on a pile of expensive memory again if I can
> help it! :-D
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> > Phil
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