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Mthrbrd's gone.Shuld i take AMDAthlon64HT3000+/P4 2.66GHz

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koolbluez
koolbluez Original post #1
Mar 31, 2006 at 5:10 PM
My motherboard's gone... broke down this week after 6 years of super use... say @least 15hrs of work daily... heavy duty...

Now.. it was a PIII 1GHz, an 815 board & 256MB SDRAM...

@ the repair.. they said of a replacement as the mthrbrd chip was gone and local repair can't be done... They asked me to change the board... which is btw... not available here...

Can anything be done about it.... and if no.... the next sentence....

Now, I've doubt on whether to buy

an AMD Athlon 64 HT 3000+, socket 754 processor with motherboard for 7.7k
or
a Pentium 4 2.66GHz 533MHz FSD 1MB L2 cache with motherboard for 8.1K
I'm a frequent user and do a lot of gaming and audio-video conversion...

In short; a hightime user, with my rig on for @least 14-20hrs everyday...

Need reply urrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggentttt.....
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gxsaurav #2
Mar 31, 2006 at 6:32 PM
Better go for AMD
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stalin #3
Mar 31, 2006 at 7:05 PM
AMD is Better and very good performance. Coz I have AMD64 3000+ and Pentium 4 3GHZ. I tried with lot of application like Photoshop, 3D Max Rending and Maya. Graphic and Multimedia application I felt AMD is Much better. If you use Office Application, Tally other accounting software then Intel is good.
wizrulz
wizrulz #4
Mar 31, 2006 at 9:44 PM
if ur in gaming and stuff go for AMD, only office typo use then intel..but u getting AND cheaper na....then go for AMD buddy.... :)
darklord
darklord #5
Apr 1, 2006 at 12:01 AM
From teh combos u have mentioned,AMD setup will smack that P4s sorry ass any given day...
Decide what you want now...lol
koolbluez
koolbluez #6
Apr 1, 2006 at 7:29 AM
i heard of AMD having heating probs... I do use my pc for 16hrs... that might cause a bit probs... esp. in India... with summer comin up... 30degree celcius right now!!!

also i do multitaskin too... runnin many applications simultaneously...

now tell me the summary
Kniwor
Kniwor #7
Apr 1, 2006 at 7:50 AM
AMD´s are much cooler than INTEL´s ..... that was a problem in past.... and the situation is quite contrary now...

for the 2 combinations u mentioned...
THEY ARE NOT EVEN REMOTELY COMPAREABLE..
the AMD combo will beat the shit out of the intel one and is also cheaper....
nishant_nms
nishant_nms #8
Apr 1, 2006 at 2:44 PM
Get the AMD combo. It will heat less than Intel. It's performance will be much better even when multitasking
abhijit_reddevil
abhijit_reddevil #9
Apr 1, 2006 at 4:36 PM
I suggest not socket 754 processor but socket 939 processor of 3000+ and Asus A8N-VM. Search in the market if you get some combo deals with Asus/MSI board, specially RS480M2/482M2-IL.
darklord
darklord #10
Apr 1, 2006 at 5:58 PM
koolbluez said:
i heard of AMD having heating probs... I do use my pc for 16hrs... that might cause a bit probs... esp. in India... with summer comin up... 30degree celcius right now!!!

also i do multitaskin too... runnin many applications simultaneously...

now tell me the summary
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I use my AMD A64 based Rig 24x7,no problems whatsoever.temps dont cross 40C for CPU. :wink: