Computer died :(

smartroad · 6 Feb 2007 at 10:36

How annoying, I buy a new GFX card for my exsisting system (which is AGP), the ATI X1950, I get home to set the system up to download games from Steam while I wait for the card to turn up. However I switch the machine on all I got was a few beeps and then nothing!

After much playing It looks like the mobo is dead. I was looking for a good mobo for a 3.2GHz P4HT but they are few and far between so brought a new CPU, mobo and memory to go with it!

Intention to spend £150 for GFX, end up spending £400 for AMD X2 4200+, 1GB Ram, Mobo and the GFX card.

The annoying thing is that had I known that the machine was going to die, I would have updated to PCI-E rather then finding an AGP mobo for the AM2 socket. And because I had already ordered the GFX card (from overclockers) I have payed twice for P&P :rolleyes:

Oh well

Looking forward to the new machine tho, dual core.. mmmmmm :lol:

mishima · 6 Feb 2007 at 11:04

Thats unfortunate

What made you go for AMD X2?

smartroad · 6 Feb 2007 at 13:18

Went for the X2 mainly due to cost. I really can't afford to upgrade my PC the way I am having too so I needed the lowest cost/highest performance. I know the Core2Duo is a faster processor, but the AMD's have always been better value for money (in my opinion

).

melbourne720 · 6 Feb 2007 at 13:51

smartroad said:
but the AMD's have always been better value for money.

Not any more, IMHO.

smartroad · 6 Feb 2007 at 17:12

melbourne720 said:
Not any more, IMHO.

Darn site cheaper tho

mishima · 6 Feb 2007 at 17:16

Me and my brother upgraded at similar times, I upgraded a week after him. He went for AMD X2 and I went for Intel Core 2 Duo.

Both got the same ram and graphics cards:

GeIL 6400 2GB DDR2
Powercolor X1950 Pro 512MB PCI-e.

Mine outperforms his by quite a margin and not only that, (even though it isn't) I can overclock this E6600 2.4GHz to over 3GHz easily. Everyone on here advised me against AMD this time round because Intel is definately winning on the CPU front - all the benchmarks show that!

-Nick- · 6 Feb 2007 at 17:59

yea c2d is amazing tbh

smartroad · 8 Feb 2007 at 15:28

Like i say the main reason was cost, I don't have the funds for the creme du la creme. Looking on OC shop, going for the cheapest Mobo's, the AMD is £130 for the 4200 (2.2 clock) and the Intel is £210 (2.13 clock). Yes the intel is the faster chip, but is also almost £80 more. And as I hadn't planned on upgrading I haven't got the larger funds available for the best

Also I am not a fan of Intel anyway, I used to work for a well known computer store and the AMD crew were always more friendly then the Intel crew. Actually in nearly 5 years I only ever saw 1 intel rep, but lost count of the AMD reps visits! (and they gave me pens and tee-shirts :lol: )