Krell
September 4th, 2005, 02:04 AM
I want to breath some life in to this forum and get away from all the hurricane crap with some new threads.
This article at [H]ard|OCP reviews their choices for building a new system, or upgrading one.
If you have any ideas or modifications to this pass along your ideas
Finally, ZPMan stay the hell out of my threads!
Introduction
In the past, we have covered system guides with prices ranging from US$500 – US$1500 and higher. Each of those guides offered a targeted system based around either AMD or Intel as the processing core. While those guides offered a view into segments of the market, most of them didn’t show the bigger picture of what is truly available in the enthusiast market. Our guide uses a two-pronged approach:
First, let’s build the best all-around computer system our money can buy. This system should offer competitive performance for both application and gaming users. Second, let’s upgrade an already existing system in the tradition of our previous upgrade guides. This second system will offer a no-holds-barred attention on gaming performance.
Fast forward to this installment and we have increased the budget to US$2000, which is quite a bit of cash for a full system build and it offers some very nice options on the upgrade side. We’ve also decided to increase the scope of these guides from this point forward and put together complete and upgrade systems from both AMD and Intel. A more thorough approach allows us to see the current market with a much broader viewpoint and gives us the opportunity to address systems from both sides of the fence.
Our primary goal of these system guides is to build the best system available for the money with future upgradeability. This means that we need a path for CPU, memory, or video card upgrades at some point in the future without replacing every component in the system. We’ve hit that mark with this $2000 guide. Other goals are stability and performance. We know these products work because we have used them ourselves with one system or another. We wouldn’t recommend a component that we would not buy for our own systems.
READ ARTICLE (http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODA3)
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This article at [H]ard|OCP reviews their choices for building a new system, or upgrading one.
If you have any ideas or modifications to this pass along your ideas
Finally, ZPMan stay the hell out of my threads!
Introduction
In the past, we have covered system guides with prices ranging from US$500 – US$1500 and higher. Each of those guides offered a targeted system based around either AMD or Intel as the processing core. While those guides offered a view into segments of the market, most of them didn’t show the bigger picture of what is truly available in the enthusiast market. Our guide uses a two-pronged approach:
First, let’s build the best all-around computer system our money can buy. This system should offer competitive performance for both application and gaming users. Second, let’s upgrade an already existing system in the tradition of our previous upgrade guides. This second system will offer a no-holds-barred attention on gaming performance.
Fast forward to this installment and we have increased the budget to US$2000, which is quite a bit of cash for a full system build and it offers some very nice options on the upgrade side. We’ve also decided to increase the scope of these guides from this point forward and put together complete and upgrade systems from both AMD and Intel. A more thorough approach allows us to see the current market with a much broader viewpoint and gives us the opportunity to address systems from both sides of the fence.
Our primary goal of these system guides is to build the best system available for the money with future upgradeability. This means that we need a path for CPU, memory, or video card upgrades at some point in the future without replacing every component in the system. We’ve hit that mark with this $2000 guide. Other goals are stability and performance. We know these products work because we have used them ourselves with one system or another. We wouldn’t recommend a component that we would not buy for our own systems.
READ ARTICLE (http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODA3)
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