New System

[simmonz]

G'day fellas,

I'm looking at building a new machine pretty soon (aiming to start building in perhaps a month or so. My current rig is a AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (939), nForce motherboard, 2GB PC3200, 350GB HDD and a ATi X1950XT-X.

I'm not looking to upgrade my video card (yet)but the rest of the system i'm looking to improve. I'm a gamer at heart so games such as Crysis, Age of conan etc are going to be played often (and at a good graphics quality).

I've been tempted to make the swtich back to Intel but I've been hearing mixed reviews. Things such as DRM, overheating, slowing down which has put me off slightly. I did want to wait to see what AMD came back with (i was. how shall we say..not interested in AM2).

Obviously I'll be running Windows Vista (Ultimate) so i know im going to need a beefy system with all this (Aero gloss malarky).

You guys got any recommendations for me?

 

[simmonz]

Would 2GB be enough for Vista? I've heard from various news feeds on the net that 4GB is whats needed for it to ren "efficiently".

I know nothing about Intel chips these days, it's been 5 years or so since i last used one. So i'm assuming Allendale is one of the top chip architectures for Intel (on a Kentsfield motherboard?).

Thanks for the help though ...just switching back to intel im never too sure which is which these days

 

[simmonz]

I was told (about 5 months ago) that conroe is "the chip" to get. I've been waiting for performance specs and comparisons to AMDs lineup.

I'm seriously contemplating a conroe, but i just need that extra "nudge" if you get what i mean