Oh what to do, what to do!

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Hey all!

It appears my motherboard has died a horrible death and left me friendless.
How inconsiderate!
My dilemma is:

Should I try and get a replacement to take my current setup or should I try
and really up the power of my system by changing to DDR and get a mush
faster CPU?

Setup before motherboard died:

1.4Ghz AMD Athlon
640MB SDRAM

I use it mainly for a media pc
i.e. gaming, Photoshop, music watching video and also for encoding video
(music videos and the like from DVD) for to send to my modified xbox to
watch in the living room.

I was wondering would it be worth going the 64bit route just yet or should I
stick with 32bit AMD Athlon's

Or should I even try to go for a Pentium4?

And what of the ram? Is there really a difference in speed? My work PC which
I'm using now doesn't seem any faster with it. Am I more likely to notice
this speed with media applications i.e. Photoshop?

Which in your experience is better for my needs?

Hope someone can help

Many thanks, Scott
 
Scott said:
Hey all!

It appears my motherboard has died a horrible death and left me friendless.
How inconsiderate!
My dilemma is:

Should I try and get a replacement to take my current setup or should I try
and really up the power of my system by changing to DDR and get a mush
faster CPU?

Setup before motherboard died:

1.4Ghz AMD Athlon
640MB SDRAM

I use it mainly for a media pc
i.e. gaming, Photoshop, music watching video and also for encoding video
(music videos and the like from DVD) for to send to my modified xbox to
watch in the living room.

I was wondering would it be worth going the 64bit route just yet or should I
stick with 32bit AMD Athlon's

Or should I even try to go for a Pentium4?

And what of the ram? Is there really a difference in speed? My work PC which
I'm using now doesn't seem any faster with it. Am I more likely to notice
this speed with media applications i.e. Photoshop?

Which in your experience is better for my needs?

Hope someone can help

Many thanks, Scott
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Go for the cheapest Athlon 64 processor, and buy a full GIG of RAM to go
with it. For what you are using, you need both a more powerful processor,
as well as more and (more powerful) RAM. -Dave
 
Scott said:
I use it mainly for a media pc
i.e. gaming, Photoshop, music watching video and also for encoding
video (music videos and the like from DVD) for to send to my modified
xbox to watch in the living room.

I was wondering would it be worth going the 64bit route just yet or
should I stick with 32bit AMD Athlon's

Or should I even try to go for a Pentium4?
Click to expand...

The P4 is a better option for encoding & games than the 32bit AMD. The
AMD64 & P4 are fairly neck & neck in both video and games.
And what of the ram? Is there really a difference in speed? My work
PC which I'm using now doesn't seem any faster with it. Am I more
likely to notice this speed with media applications i.e. Photoshop?

Which in your experience is better for my needs?
Click to expand...

You'll see a big difference in video encoding if you upgrade to an
Athlon64 or P4, go with 1GB RAM and the nforce based motherboards are
looking good.

What kind of games do you play? If you game a lot buy the best card you
can afford.
 
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