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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (14739)	9/4/2006 6:54:02 PM
From: Greg from Edmonton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Looks like AMD's newest offerings aligned with Socket AM2. A few months ago I put together an AMD system. ASUS A8N-E, Athlon 64 X2 3800+, Nvidia 6600, Seagate SATA drives. No complaints about it other than the drastic AMD CPU price cuts a few weeks after I bought. Boards for the new Intel Core 2 Duo have a bit of a price premium as do the new chips. AMD chips are now priced very competitively and still represent excellent value. I still stuck with AMD because the hardware is considered fairly well proven and stable (updated BIOS etc.). Exellent performance and good value, also clearly the best performance for the heat output / power usage at the time. But now with the new Intel chips one would have to compare closer price vs. performance relative to what your needs may be. AMD had the clear lead until the Core Duo's introduction. According to all the reviews, Intel has come back swinging hard with their new chips.

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (14739)	9/4/2006 8:10:22 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 14778

I like mine, but should have bought a speedier chip: Message 22428305

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (14739)	10/7/2007 10:53:12 AM
From: limtex	Respond to of 14778

BT - I have a laptop lightweight and very powerful which I use most of the time. I travel quite a bit. I also have a desktop. I would like to use my desktop for all my computing. I have stoppped using it for most things becuase I just got fed up with having to copy my outlook file every time I go anywhere and then copy it back again when I get back. All manually. I would also have to copy all the documents that I created and photos. What I would like to do is to use my desktop and to sync it to my laptop before I leave for travel and then sync it back to my laptop when I return. Any ideas? I will post this on the Q site as well. Thanks, L