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"So I have a new PC on the way (Geforce FX 5500)"

Main specs being:

AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ Processor
Mainboard , 2000MHz SB, IEEE 1394, SATA
1024MB DDR 400 RAM Memory
300GB Serial ATA (150Mb/s) Ultra Fast Hard Drive
256MB nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 - TV-Out - DVI
17" TFT Flat Panel LCD Monitor
SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-RW (R/W all standard formats)*
5.1 Surround Sound 6 Channel Audio
Creative Labs Soundblaster SBS260 Stereo Speakers

Only thing worrying me here is the Geforce FX 5500 card. I'm going to be playing alot of games on this thing, yet I just read a review this card isn't one of the best performers for games.

Was looking at a Radeon 9800 XT or something hmmmmmm.

So I have Doom 3 here, if I stick it in on that thing will it still look pretty or erm...run?

Ah, this computer will do me nicely for the price - where are you ordering from?

Oh dear, if you think a 3500+ will get pwned by a 3.5Ghz intel because the clock speed is lower you need to do more reading.

Oh yeah don't get me wrong you are buying a good AMD processor. It's just not as fast as a intel one you could have got for the same money.

My housemate fell for their dirty name trick and got a 3000xp about a year ago thinking it was a 3ghz the up side of that though was he got a radeon 9800pro with his computer which.

Well that place seems to like it...

Ohhhhhh silly me.

Thanks for the link.

*reads*

Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> An Athlon 3500+ chip is surely 3.5 ghz no?

No thats just AMD's evil trick. '3500+' Thats it's name not it's speed. the link below shows the real clock speeds.

[URL]http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q3/athlon64-3500/index.x?pg=1[/URL]

An Athlon 3500+ chip is surely 3.5 ghz no?

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Go with the numbers on the AMD chips. 3500+ P4 3.4 GHz.

The athlon is a 2.2 ghz i just didn't understand the choice when for the same money you can get a much faster chip.

yeah pci-express is faster, but i doubt your motherboard will do it as it has a AGP slot i assume for the geforce card your getting.

I'll have to look into all this in the next few days. I've been looking over the weekend at performance results of all the graphics cards and the ones near the top are way out of my price range.

Just searched shortly for the Geforce cards you meantioned and they seem to be a little bit more expensive then the Radeon Pro 9800's. I have seen the Geforce 6800's come quite high in some results though.

I swear when I looked at graphics cards last time around it wasn't as confusing as this. Before it was just AGP and PCI. AGP was more capable then a PCI graphics card. And the higher mb it had say 64mb, was better. Now I'm seeing some 128mb cards being more expensive then 256mb and such things as PCI Express which I know nothing about apart from you can dual cards up with it.

So AGP, PCI and PCI Express. Some of these PCI's are better then the AGP's eh?

I dunno.

May just look into prices for that Radeon Pro 9800 256mb AGP thing.

The Geforce if it's pants can go in my sisters PC or something.

Go with the numbers on the AMD chips. 3500+ > P4 3.4 GHz.