Intel are teh pwn.
AMD are noobs.
Hell, Intel have even delayed release of the Penryn processors because they don't consider the Phenoms to be a 'sufficient challenge' Thanks to AMD not being able to make a decent chip I've now got to wait another TWO MONTHS to get my luffly Penryn.
DIE AMD, DIE!
Wilbur
Intel>AMD anywho back on topicOriginally Posted by bob
5 seperate hard drives is overkill, I currently have 3, 1 for my solo play wow and operating system and the other two have the 5 multibox clients spread out between them. The biggest factor in running multiple WoWs on one box are graphics/CPU and memory. 4gb of ram is plenty. the 8800GT cards are excellent and the mid range or greater C2Ds or quads are plenty. PC6400 is enough speed for WoW, wow is just a hog for memory it doesnt really care what speed it is. SLI is definately not needed for this but it wouldnt hurt to get a board capable of doing it for a bit of future proofing.
Vista is fine but if you are going vista make sure to get the 64bit edition, no point wasting that last gig of RAM, if you want a 32bit OS just use XP instead, its cheaper.
i cant go past intel atm (q6600) and the 8800gts looks to be the shizz
I went through the decision of a phenom vs a q6600 last week.
You can't go wrong with a q6600. I used to be a die hard AMD fan, but face it the current Phenoms just don't perform like they were expected to/should. AMD used to be pay less get more, but with phenoms its pay less get less :?
Maybe in the future when they have been tweaked a little bit more and there are more quad cpu oriented applications you will see them start to shine, but by then it will be about time to replace my hardware and move on to whats new/best at the time anyways.
The q6600 is rock solid and reliable - I had mine running at 3.6GHz stable, just didn't feel comfortable keeping it there because of cooling limitations. Phenoms are still new, and with that comes weariness of how reliable the platform is. AMDs historically have always been very solid overclockers, but this is an entirely new chip...
I agree that AMD is heading in the right direction with computing advances, however they have yet to deliver performance on par with Intel chips for current applications. If it doesn't do current stuff better, I lose hope that it will do future stuff better, all programming optimizations aside. Like I said before, by the time stuff comes out to take full advantage of it, something new and improved will be out anyways. DX10 and full DX10 hardware support has been around for how long and Crysis finally comes out...
Yes, bob, more HDDs will lower your lag and wait time by a margin. Don't expect amazing "OMG 2.5 second wait gone" results, but you will see a difference.
As far as Phenoms and the rest of the debate there is concerned, I bought a 6600 based on the price. I know I'll upgrade in 1.5 or 2 years and when the time comes, maybe we'll have octocores. I just wanted to avoid spending $400+ on a proc for a machine that I don't do amazingly high-end gaming on. I only run one vid card ATM so SLI is not relevant. Yet.
amd = pwn as far as im concerned
Negative sir.
Intel = greater pwn.
Wilbur
exactly
Wilbur is teh wrongz , amd is always better
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GIEF!
Wilbur
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