I have seen the light...
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:28 pm
After being tired of watching 'lesser' AMD-based systems walk circles around my Intel systems, I broke down and built an AMD system. I won an Abit AX8 mobo at QuakeCon '05, so I needed a CPU, GPU, and psu. Everything else - case, sound card, DVD-RW drive, and most importantly, the RAM! - came over with no problems.
So I bought an AMD San Diego 3700+ with an eVGA 7800GTX. Two clean builds later, I have a sweet-running system that loads Quake 4 and BF2 levels in no time, and runs a cool 34C/99F at idle (if I can believe what Abit EQ tells me). My benchmark scores in Aquamark3 and 3DMark05 are significantly higher and all my games are silky-smooth. It's amazing to see it run circles around my older Intel 3.4GHz system....
Funny story about the psu - I have a 420W Enermax psu that has serviced me well for many years. I was thrilled to see the AX8 had a 20-pin ATX connector on it which means I didn't need a new PSU. The retailer I bought the GPU from said it needed a minimum of 450W. So I bought a ThermalTake 480W PurePower. When the GPU arrived, the box said minimum was 400W.... doh.... that's OK, as this Enermax psu is several years old and probably isn't putting out 420W anymore, so it will find a new home in my wife's PC, along with my old Intel setup (she's still running an old 2.0GHz rambus system....)
So this is what all of you AMD guys have been trying to tell me all these years!
So I bought an AMD San Diego 3700+ with an eVGA 7800GTX. Two clean builds later, I have a sweet-running system that loads Quake 4 and BF2 levels in no time, and runs a cool 34C/99F at idle (if I can believe what Abit EQ tells me). My benchmark scores in Aquamark3 and 3DMark05 are significantly higher and all my games are silky-smooth. It's amazing to see it run circles around my older Intel 3.4GHz system....
Funny story about the psu - I have a 420W Enermax psu that has serviced me well for many years. I was thrilled to see the AX8 had a 20-pin ATX connector on it which means I didn't need a new PSU. The retailer I bought the GPU from said it needed a minimum of 450W. So I bought a ThermalTake 480W PurePower. When the GPU arrived, the box said minimum was 400W.... doh.... that's OK, as this Enermax psu is several years old and probably isn't putting out 420W anymore, so it will find a new home in my wife's PC, along with my old Intel setup (she's still running an old 2.0GHz rambus system....)
So this is what all of you AMD guys have been trying to tell me all these years!
we still use both, i have my intel systems and my AMD systems but when it comes to my perosnal computer i choose AMD over Intel any day.
(just kidding 
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