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Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers?

Posted by kdawson on from the drowning-in-a-sea-of-specs dept.

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?"

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  1. It has got silly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Only the "IT" nerds who weren't clever enough to understand computer science and instead invested all of their energy into the learning and buying of computer hardware know what any of these things are, and god forbid having to ask any of those DICKS a question.

    1. Re:It has got silly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Sounds like bitter commentary from a developer who can't write clean code that will run in a real production environment.

    2. Re:It has got silly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      In other words, you are unable to build your own PC and you feel butthurt.

    3. Re:It has got silly by jon3k · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yes when people have so much money they can blow $2k-$3k without spending so much as a day to review their options (read: more money than sense) they just head straight to the apple store, point at the prettiest thing on the counter and hand them their credit card.

  2. I grew up by gmhowell · · Score: -1, Troll

    I grew up and just started going to this website and bought what seemed about right. Too busy with women, my kid, motorcycle, and work to worry about all that crap any longer.

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  3. Re:It can be confusing... by JordanL · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Core i5-750 is only $200. If you're not willing to spend $200 on your CPU, you have no business building a PC instead of buying one.

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  4. Slashdot is so boring anymore. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    blah blah blah faggots blah blah blah aids blah blah blah linux.

  5. Building your own laptop by tepples · · Score: -1, Troll

    I personally build almost all my family's and my company's PC's, from simple $300 desktops to $5000 servers and the only cases where I have bought pre-built (hence the "almost all") were towards the latter ($5k) category.

    Including some $5k laptops? Or what do you recommend for building your own laptop?

  6. window.openDatabase() by tepples · · Score: -1, Troll

    For instance, if you once in a blue moon use Office and never use a database on your PC

    If you use Firefox, you use a database. If you use HTML5 web applications, you use a database.

    what do you care about how fast/slow your CPU is at them?

    If you play high-definition video on YouTube, you exercise a CPU.

  7. Re:Set a budget by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    All I want is something that will run Oblivion

    2006 called and wants it's game back.

    Why not splurge and spend an extra 45 bucks and get something that'll run Dragon Age: Origins?

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  8. Re:Ars technica by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Boycot ars technica, they are hipocrites.

  9. Re:It can be confusing... by Hurricane78 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The definition of “optimal price point”!! Do you know it?!?

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  10. Re:Operating system by StuartHankins · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or you can skip all this malarky and just go buy a MacBook Pro like I did.


    Here come the trolls...