80 in porn?! damn, I bet your a hit at lan parties....

Anybody running 2003 server yet? I've heard its nice because you can run it real lean, with only the components that you choose. Plus its supposed to be more stable, faster, blah, blah. My friend is currently running it, but it takes a fair amount of tweaking to turn it into a workable workstation. Networking still isnt working for him, and he's having dvd ripping problems, but otherwise it runs CoD, and thats all that matters!

Check the retail papers on sunday for your harddrives, they are having fastastic rebate deals. a 120 gb is running about 60 bucks after rebates. Go buy things sunday morning though, if you wait they will be out of them.

the 2003 is shit.

This is untrue. Every Pentium, AMD and even Cyrix CPU produced since the 486dx has included a “math coprocessor”. They provide hardware for floating-point math, which otherwise would create an excessive drain on the main CPU. Math chips speed your computer's operation only when you are running software designed to take advantage of the coprocessor. All the subsequent fifth and sixth generation Intel and compatible processors (such as those from AMD and Cyrix) have featured an integrated floating-point unit (if you have ever benchmarked you cpu then you will see a spot for FPUs.), although the Intel ones are known for having the best performance.
In order for the math processor to be of any use the software has to be able to realize its there and be able to take advantage of it.

I do agree with you about the ram and video card.

And AMD calls them that, because its using a PR rating system. The 2400+ is supposed to perform as well as if not better than the p4 2.4. And so on up the line ie: xp1700 is equal to or better than the p4 1.7.

The reason AMD can hang with the p4 even though the p4 has a much higher mhz rate, is because the AMD performs more operations per clock cycle. The p4s performs around 7 operations clock per-cycle and the AMD performs around 13 instructions per-cycle. So you can see why the AMD is actually as fast if not faster than the p4. Even though the p4s mhz is much higher.




Im not a programmer, so your probly right about that :)

should i upgrade my bios chip. or is that unnesssary?

plus what MGH should i be running at?

You can't upgrade your BIOS chip, but you can flash the BIOS. If you don't need to, don't. You risk a bad flash --> dead board.

What's MGH?

you probably wont have a need to flash your bios, unless there is a major problem and/or update. back in the day you could swap chips, but with the new stuff using eeprom, we flash them now.

and yes, what is mgh??

Maybe he meant MHz....like mghz gone wrong....?

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megahurtz.

wowzas. lots of intel p4 hatin'.

i'll have to set you guys straight in a few days when i get my new mobo :cool:

and just for the record i have 2 P4 2.6c systems as well as a Athlon64 rig.

indeed go with an AMD dood. I got a 2600+ in mine with a Radeon 9800 pro and it works like a dream. Pentium's are built for raw power but AMD's have WAYYYYY better architecture.

i say pentium 4 just because that is what i have in my emachine lol

um is an amd athalong for xp a processor that helps your computer run windows xp faster?

I hope you're joking.....but in case you aren't, I'll answer seriously. There's no shame in not knowing, I just figured everybody knew by now.....

The Athlon XP processors from AMD are merely a marketing ploy and have NO RELATION to Windows XP. Consider it coincidence or conspiracy, whichever you prefer, but there is no relation. The Athlon XP processors have a # after the XP, which is their "rated speed" a la the days of Cyrix's rating system. It is AMD's attempt to diverge from the MHz rating system to a performance-based rating system. For example, an AMD Athlon XP 1800 may run at 1500 MHz (1.5 GHz) but is rated at 1800, the equivalent of an 1800 MHz (1.8 GHz) Intel CPU.

Anyhow, the gyst of the matter is marketing, the XP is either coincidence or pure marketing conspiracy....don't confuse them. :)

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yea the Athlon xp was before windows XP.