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Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers?
b4dc0d3r writes "How do you make sense of the various model numbers or naming schemes for CPUs, graphics cards, and the related chipsets? All I want is something that will run Oblivion and output full 1080 video to a TV. Last time I built my own computer I just went to Pricewatch, made a few easy choices, and everything came to my door. Do I really have to research the differences among Core i5, Core 2 Duo, Pentium 4, Pentium D, Sempron, Athlon, Phenom ...? And that's just the processor. Is there a reference somewhere? In short, how do you buy a computer these days?"
Your comment is soooooooo 1:48 PM
Wake up and smell the coffee of 2:07 PM
Ever so slowly, we see the evidence that people on slashdot are starting to mature.
First, it was the gradual evaporation of the "linux will rule the desktop by next tuesday" usual nonsense.
Then, while every even vaguely microsoft related article is still turned into a microsoft-bash fest, there are at least a fair number of sane rebuttals.
Now, lo and behold, even though it's probably easier than ever before to make sense of the various computer components out there, what we are acutally seeing is some slashdot guy, however peripheral, admit that time has value - specifically, he does not want to invest his time to determine the value of items. far different to the days of his youth when he'd pore through hundreds of computer shopper ads to save $3.50 on a modem.
what next - an actual rational discussion of copyright laws? oh, one dares not dream that impossible dream.
yea, well the jerk store called and they're all out of you.
As for the video card... get a Raedeon 4790. It's about 90% of the 5850 for $200. .
That is completely false 5265 is 90% of 5850, not 4790.
If you're playing hot new games, a hot CPU is handy. So is a hot video card.
Not true. You need a better cooler.
Pricewatch wanted to test their servers against brute force attacks. The site's still up, so if it can survive /. it can survive anything.
I do not support "The Man". I also do not support your irrational stupidity
From Newegg, eh? Is it real, or is it just an aluminum disc in a cardboard box with a windows logo drawn in crayon?
I believe this adds a whole new dimension to the compatibility and benchmark question...
Doesn't that mean you're basically buying a new PC every year?
Here is the actual list I made up.
Okay, I know what you're saying, but some phrases do not inspire confidence :)
When confronted with one problem, some think "I'll use recursion". Now they are confronted with one problem.