HI EVERYONE!! I'M BAK!!

let me guess. P4. figures. No one buys AMD anymore. Welcome back.

Hmmm..another I hadn't noticed had gone...

/me watches as WasupBoy shuffles off, all crest-fallen...."nobody loves me, everybody hates me...think I'll go and eat worms...."






Welcome back...

Well Welcome Back WasupBoy Haven't seen you around for awhile. I wondered what happened to ya.

"No one buys AMD anymore."

Not true, I just bought a new PC a month ago and I went with an AMD Athlon XP because I wanted both great performance and a low price.

Kudos to you jj79... Tis a funny thing. I think everyone here thinks P4 is the wave of the future when in fact the P4 is playing catch up with the Athlon.

Myself I have a G4.

G4 (PowerPC) is a good processor too. Nintendo Gamecube uses a version of PowerPC called Gekko while XBOX uses a bare bones version of P3.

Yeah I'm happy with it. Or will be I get it Sunday. I think it may be a G3 600 or something. The problem is I will have a heck of a time relearning OS 9 and X.

I wish I could have a Mac, but they are so expensive. Oh well, with PCs you get more power for less money, especially if you choose AMD over Intel.

I have both. I actually enjoy any mac more than any pc. Macs never crash or give you a blue screen of death. Love AMD

how this become a chip debate??



was up boy!!!

I am surprised no one said that!!

get it? wasupboy... was up boy? what is up boy?



nothin....

anyway. I remember you. grad you could make it back.

and I like AMD's too. We should make a club.

not a debate. a discussion. if it was a debate it would look like the iraq thread with everyone at each others thoats.

I totally avoid the Iraq thread. Don't care to get attacked for my pro-war stand, and I don't think a lot of the anti-war people would understand my reasoning.

That is EXACTLY why I don't contibute to that iraq thread either.

BTW wasupboy I aploigise for turning your thread into a debate on whatever you want to call it. My first post was only merly a question in disquise. So I'm sorry in advance. Your more than welcome to yell at me. everyone else does.

I don't get the blue screen of death while running Windows XP. Windows XP is based on Windows NT which is very different from the Windows 95 code base (Windows 95/98/ME). I have had a blue screen during Windows XP boot-up on my old computer. XP has not crashed so far on my new computer. Although XP performs well for my needs, I still can't help being curious about Mac, Linux, or any other UNIX based system.

I believe my old computer had hardware problems that lead to the crashing.

Coriosity is the main reason for switching for me. After 4 years of windows I'm ready for the mac world.

Personally I have an Athlon XP. I wish I had paid the extra and got the P4. Maybe not as fast but I wouldn't feel totally paranoid that it was gonna fry itself either. I have twice had alarms wake me up in the middle of the night saying it was at 80 deg C (I don't think they were valid temp readings as it was down at 56 deg C when I looked on the MBM 5 monitor).

It's a 1700+ (1.4GHz really) but I'm running it at 1.1GHz to try and keep it under 50 deg C most of the time. My 1GHz Duron with ti4600 outperforms it in games and such so I mainly use it as a server and for Graphics, General use.

The place I took it to get the heatsink/fan fitted (Volcano 7+) hadn't got a clue and used ALL the heatsink compound after me taking it back because they used _nothing_ between the heatsink and the chip the first time. It was dripping down the sides and in a right mess. Spent a day cleaning it up and reapplying Artic Silver instead.

I still don't know if it was damaged in that first period of switching it on and seeing it climb rapidly to 70 Deg C before I switched it off as fast as I could.

My old computer was running on an AMD k-6 2 processor running at 500MHz, and it never fried on me. I never did run my computer 24/7 so I can't say how good of a chip it is for that. I was very pleased with my AMD chip, so I had no problem deciding on purchasing an Athlon XP system.

Get a volcano 9 and use the temp sensor that comes with it. Athlons can run safely without burning up at 130 fairenhet up to 150. My duron runs at 120 F and it has NEVER messed up.

After spending a total of 60 pounds on my Volcano 7+, I am not going through that again (including fitting and then refitting costs from bodges the company did themselves). 150 deg F = 65.56 deg C which does sound worrying. It just about gets to that when not underclocked and running 3DMark or something. Elsewhere I have heard that it can survive up to 90 deg C but it's not recommended to test that theory. I'm past caring and just gonna err on the side of caution.

Hey WasupBoy. About time. Glad you didn't forget your way back. School's just about over. Have you learned anything? See ya later.

Never heard of you.

Well hello there

Kona, you're not alone...I've been rolling my own boxes for years and have *always* put AMD in them. Never, ever, had any problems of any kind.