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The Athlon 64 3000+, A Budget Gamer's Perspective

Posted by timothy on from the enjoy-the-las-vegas-effect dept.

VL contributes a link to Viperlair's budget-conscious and game-oriented review of an AMD processor that's not on the bleeding edge, but makes a good showing for the money: "For the price of the Socket-939, you can pick up an A64 3000+, K8T800 based motherboard, and a decent mid-range video card. For gamers on a budget, I think the choice is obvious."

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  1. YES! by Kjuib · · Score: 3, Funny

    now and I can aford 3 or 4 and make my super computer... all I need is some homemade duct-tape.

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  2. Yes but it how does it perform by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ....in Police Quest IV?

    1. Re:Yes but it how does it perform by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      The PQ games are alright, but I'm wondering how many fps I'll get in Zork with a rig like this.

      Just imagine "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" in 1600x1200 fullscreen, 32 million colours etc. with a (hopefully) smooth framerate

      *drool*

    2. Re:Yes but it how does it perform by name773 · · Score: 2, Funny

      then you'll definitely want this card

    3. Re:Yes but it how does it perform by prockcore · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just imagine "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" in 1600x1200 fullscreen

      I imagine that at 1600x1200 it would likely look like this: "......"

  3. Re:I don't get it.. by imsabbel · · Score: 4, Funny

    What part of "budget" didnt you understrand?

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  4. Is that story summary "DUH" or what? by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 3, Funny

    a link to [a] budget-conscious and game-oriented review of an AMD processor that's not on the bleeding edge, but makes a good showing for the money... "For gamers on a budget, I think the choice is obvious."

    So, if you're on a budget you shouldn't buy bleeding edge? Wow, thanks for that amazing bit of insight. I'll file it next to "the Pope might be Catholic" and "day is warmer than night" in my mental list of secret bits of info that might come in handy sometime.

    Seriously though, doesn't it seem like we're constantly being told this by Slashdot every six months? I wouldn't mind, but even if it wasn't so bloody obvious then it's the kind of thing that the average Slashdot reader would have learnt years ago.

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  5. Re:Just what I was looking for... by Kent+Recal · · Score: 5, Funny


    unstable+paris+hilton gives 12,500 hits.

    Now what do we learn from that?

  6. Maybe I'll be able to play Doom 3 now! by jZnat · · Score: 3, Funny

    With Doom 3 coming out in, oh, 2 days, maybe I'll be able to run it on 640x480 (with an nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra) with all settings on low, but it's definitely a big maybe. Anyone got some deals on 2 GB packs of Corsair DDR400 RAM? Or perhaps my own personal Japanese guy to tweak my computer to run Doom 3 a little higher?

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  7. Re:Gaming? Windows? 64-bit? NOT. by weapon · · Score: 1, Funny

    I could say that there is no stable version of 32 bit Windows but that would be too easy

    Weapon