Computa's!

[Ridg]

Very nice.  I'm going to see if the Bulldozer CPU's are worth a look at or not once they're released.

I doubt it, I've got nothing against AMD but they are so far behind at the moment, this article compares the architecture of the current and past chips on a clock for clock basis;
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/processor-architecture-benchmark,review-32238-15.html
this shows that interms of clock for clock the old old core2 is faster than the current gen AMD chip, so unless they have something very very special up their selves then sandybridge is still the way forward (till ivy bridge comes out) the only thing AMD can do is throw more cores at the problem, the same way intel were ramping the clock speeds up on the P4 chips to compensate.

[AlexMozza]

Im running atm
AMD Phenom II x6 1090t
8GB DDR3 XMS3
Gefore GTX560Ti

It works for most thing at max, ie Crysis 2, BF3 beta, Shift 2

[Jay]

didn't AMD and intel used to be neck and neck constantly?

Sort of. Mhz for Mhz the old AMD's were quicker and cheaper, intel just ramped up the clock speeds to catch up. Now the tables have turned and Intel are by far the better chips, Mhz for Mhz, though AMD's are still cheaper.

[DubFan]

Main laptop:
Dell Latitude D620
Intel Core2 (Centrino Duo) @ 2Ghz
4GB RAM
Windows 7 Enterprise Ed (64bit)
Western Digital 500GB HDD
NVidia Quadro NVS110M 330MB

Also have
Dell Precision M laptop Intel 1.6Ghz CPU, 1GB RAM
Acer Aspire One netbook (9inch screen), Intel Atom 1.6Ghz 1.5GB, 160GB HDD

[Ridg]

didn't AMD and intel used to be neck and neck constantly?

Sort of. Mhz for Mhz the old AMD's were quicker and cheaper, intel just ramped up the clock speeds to catch up. Now the tables have turned and Intel are by far the better chips, Mhz for Mhz, though AMD's are still cheaper.

that's not quite true at the moment, the i5 chip / mobo combos are pretty much the same price and in some cases cheaper.

[Tazzy]

i regret clicking on this thread now, i dont understand at all what you guys are talking about

i wish i did  :embarassed:

[Jay]

i regret clicking on this thread now, i dont understand at all what you guys are talking about

i wish i did  :embarassed:

That's how I feel about some of the more techie car talk

[Dolly]

After reading up i think ill go for intel i5 at around £170 thats 3.3ghz out the box looks like it can handle up to 4ghz fairly easily with a decent fan sat on top of it.

By the way my zalman z9 case and coolermaster 650w have turned up

[Ridg]

After reading up i think ill go for intel i5 at around £170 thats 3.3ghz out the box looks like it can handle up to 4ghz fairly easily with a decent fan sat on top of it.

By the way my zalman z9 case and coolermaster 650w have turned up

good choice

one of my mates has that chip. he's using a hydro H60 (these don't cost much more than a high end air cooler), he's running 5Ghz with a peak temp of 65 and idle 27 

As you've said you could easily go 4Ghz on air though.

[bobbarley]

After reading up i think ill go for intel i5 at around £170 thats 3.3ghz out the box looks like it can handle up to 4ghz fairly easily with a decent fan sat on top of it.

By the way my zalman z9 case and coolermaster 650w have turned up

good choice

one of my mates has that chip. he's using a hydro H60 (these don't cost much more than a high end air cooler), he's running 5Ghz with a peak temp of 65 and idle 27 

As you've said you could easily go 4Ghz on air though.

Get it.  I use the Hydro H50 and it's awesome!