AMD or Pentium

[Politically Incorrect]

You can go buy the latest and greatest based on their bench mark scores, but in all honesty most average pc users wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Intel or AMD, matter of fact they wouldn't probably know the difference between a chip made 2 years ago and one made today.

[Ashton Lawson]

Funny, i see chips with the dates printed on them (that was a long time ago).

[Mushroom_Farmer]

Funny, i see chips with the dates printed on them (that was a long time ago).

I still sometimes get the urge to fire up my old 8088 with an AMD 10MHz chip. Dated 1979.  :o  ;D

[Mees]

But yea, I wouldn't wait for Quad-Core do drop in price as Vista doesn't support that for now anyway, neither does FSX. So Intel got it spot on with the C2D as it's the fastest Dual-Core CPU around.

[DizZa]

Actually fsX does support dual core processors. It just isn't optimized for them.  ;D

[rootbeer]

I like AMDs-- always have. Don't ask me why because I don't know...

I didn't know the 8088 went to 10MHz, Mushroom. I thought it topped-out at 4.77 MHz. I had one in my Leading Edge Model D. It had dual, half-height, 360Kb floppies, a whopping 256Kb of RAM and a 13-inch, green monochrome monitor. I upped the RAM to 640Kb (who would ever need any more?) after about six months. I used that machine through college and beyond from October 1985 to December 1995. I had but one piece of software for it, a 96Kb word processor called EasyWriter II, with which I wrote several hundred papers and documents for my courses. I gave it to my brother in 1995 and have no idea where it is now. I suspect it's long gone to computer heaven by now...

[congo]

The Motorola 68000 went to 10mhz, he's prolly thinking of that CPU of the same

[Mushroom_Farmer]

[quote]The Motorola 68000 went to 10mhz, he's prolly thinking of that CPU of the same

[Gixer]

For CPU I'd be going with a Pentium right now (Have been using AMD's the past 6 years)

For a PC I wouldn't go to Dell as of the problems upgrading etc and also it will come with all kinds of rubbish installed all over it. I doubt you will get a seperate disk with the OS on just some silly recovery partition on your main HDD. I hate that setup myself and I like control over what I install on my computers.

If you can't builld yourself that is fine. Also if its finance that is the issue I'd suggest finding a shop that would 'Blueprint' you a PC. By that I mean you say which bits you want in your PC but they put it together. It's up to you if they install the OS but they probably would to check its working.

I had a PC done like this years ago before I started building my own. I used a company called Novatech here in the UK. I just specced out the componentry and they put it all together and I got the deal on finance too, so there are ways around it.

[Fozzer]

Funny, i see chips with the dates printed on them (that was a long time ago).

I still sometimes get the urge to fire up my old 8088 with an AMD 10MHz chip. Dated 1979.  :o  ;D

Good for you Mush...!

I regularly fire up my 1982 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, with its high-speed Zilog Z80, 3.5 MHz Central Processor... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]...!

Amazing, mind-boggling, processing power... ...!!

Paul....Bedroom Programmer... ...!

[Mushroom_Farmer]

Hi Paul