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Which CPU vid card

Andrew Eas

Which CPU vid card

by Andrew Eas » Thu, 24 May 2001 21:40:19

Which amd tbird 1.2 ddr or normal mem?

which geforce video card.

Bang for Bucks!

Alai

Which CPU vid card

by Alai » Fri, 25 May 2001 05:36:22

If you read the reviews, the basic consensus is that the Athlon DDR
motherboards are not quite there yet... and DDR mem is still expensive
relative to the little (or sometimes no) performance increase.  In a few
months DDR will probably be what to buy, right now, think about getting a
KT133A based Motherboard, it supports 266MHz FSB Athlons while still using
inexpensive SDR, the performance is very near DDR.  Asus A7V133 or Abit
KT7A, I guess.

GeForce: get the best you can afford!  They are basically priced based on
performance and features, so it's up to you.  GeForce 3 might be avoided for
now... again, in a few months, probably the 3 will be the one to get.


Andrew Eas

Which CPU vid card

by Andrew Eas » Fri, 25 May 2001 06:44:07

thanks Alain

> If you read the reviews, the basic consensus is that the Athlon DDR
> motherboards are not quite there yet... and DDR mem is still expensive
> relative to the little (or sometimes no) performance increase.  In a few
> months DDR will probably be what to buy, right now, think about getting a
> KT133A based Motherboard, it supports 266MHz FSB Athlons while still using
> inexpensive SDR, the performance is very near DDR.  Asus A7V133 or Abit
> KT7A, I guess.

> GeForce: get the best you can afford!  They are basically priced based on
> performance and features, so it's up to you.  GeForce 3 might be avoided
for
> now... again, in a few months, probably the 3 will be the one to get.



> > Which amd tbird 1.2 ddr or normal mem?

> > which geforce video card.

> > Bang for Bucks!