Well I did a knee jump buy on a motherboard and now I regret it a bit. Pretty much they have this Asus nforce mother board that has some killer specs to it but I didn't read up on the processor it uses. Pretty much I'm a hardcore AMD fan so the thought of buying Intel is like the thought of joining an army to kill jews to me. The AMD chip this motherboard uses are a pair of FX's. Unfortunately I just read the reviews on the buy online portion of the website and didn't bother to read any of the tests. Well I have now.
Pretty much Intel beat AMD to the Quadcore processing bit so AMD reacted by putting out these FX chips. First off Intel is giving you 4 CPU cores in one piece of silicon while AMD is doing 2 pairs of dualcores. Second off, AMD's uses so much freaking power. I'm probably going to have to buy a $200 power supply (1000W) to make the damn thing work. I'm kind of peeved about that. I'm also worried about blowing out the breaker in my wall. Granted according to the panel its a 20 AM breaker but I'm still paranoid.
Price wise I might have taken the better deal. Its hard to say. I probably could have gotten a much cheaper motherboard had I went with Intel for the first time in over a decade but I'd probably still want a motherboard similar to what I got. I'm a multimedia guy. I use a lot of music studio and synthesizer apps and I do the occasional graphic work. The pair of AMD processors (which aren't even sold together by the way) will run about a grand total of $650 or so. Now in comparison Intel's would probably cost me close to a grand for one chip but it would use almost half the power.
The one positive thing about this motherboard with the l1 socket I got is that AMD is claiming that they'll release some quadcore processors that will work on it (giving me a total of 8 cores). Personally, I'm not sure I can justify doing 8 major processes at once.
The worst part about it all is that supposedly to get the most out of my AMD xcore processors I'll have to get Windows Vista. Only I won't. Seriously, Microsoft and Intel, please go die. Let Linux reign.
All these hardware companies are kind of bastards anyway. They do bad things to each other. For example, Creative Labs, a sound card/mp3 player company (among other products) has problems on Macs. Why? Because whenever you install things like quicktime or itunes they automatically uninstall the Creative drivers and/or software. Not very gentlemen like is it? And all the companies pull shit like this. Its really not very cool.
That's the problem with computers. There's an endless amount of road blocks a company can put in a product to fuck another company over. Hell if you don't believe me just look up some of the court cases between AMD and Intel. Those should be easy enough to find.
Pretty much Intel beat AMD to the Quadcore processing bit so AMD reacted by putting out these FX chips. First off Intel is giving you 4 CPU cores in one piece of silicon while AMD is doing 2 pairs of dualcores. Second off, AMD's uses so much freaking power. I'm probably going to have to buy a $200 power supply (1000W) to make the damn thing work. I'm kind of peeved about that. I'm also worried about blowing out the breaker in my wall. Granted according to the panel its a 20 AM breaker but I'm still paranoid.
Price wise I might have taken the better deal. Its hard to say. I probably could have gotten a much cheaper motherboard had I went with Intel for the first time in over a decade but I'd probably still want a motherboard similar to what I got. I'm a multimedia guy. I use a lot of music studio and synthesizer apps and I do the occasional graphic work. The pair of AMD processors (which aren't even sold together by the way) will run about a grand total of $650 or so. Now in comparison Intel's would probably cost me close to a grand for one chip but it would use almost half the power.
The one positive thing about this motherboard with the l1 socket I got is that AMD is claiming that they'll release some quadcore processors that will work on it (giving me a total of 8 cores). Personally, I'm not sure I can justify doing 8 major processes at once.
The worst part about it all is that supposedly to get the most out of my AMD xcore processors I'll have to get Windows Vista. Only I won't. Seriously, Microsoft and Intel, please go die. Let Linux reign.
All these hardware companies are kind of bastards anyway. They do bad things to each other. For example, Creative Labs, a sound card/mp3 player company (among other products) has problems on Macs. Why? Because whenever you install things like quicktime or itunes they automatically uninstall the Creative drivers and/or software. Not very gentlemen like is it? And all the companies pull shit like this. Its really not very cool.
That's the problem with computers. There's an endless amount of road blocks a company can put in a product to fuck another company over. Hell if you don't believe me just look up some of the court cases between AMD and Intel. Those should be easy enough to find.