christof139
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System Name | The Red Green Show, it's all CHEAP, incldng. the duct tape etc. |
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Processor | AMD 5400+ Black Ed. @ 3.2GHz and cool, $66.01 incldng. shipping, x-cellent CPU, CHEAP |
Motherboard | MSI K9A2 CF v1.0, on sale and CHEAP |
Cooling | Stock AMD HSF with the copper core and plated copper pipes, and the CHEAP red and green case fans |
Memory | OCZ Gold 800/DDR2, you got it, on sale and CHEAP |
Video Card(s) | 2 XFired HD 4670, ~770x1140MHz or so, one bought used from a testing/review place and CHEAP |
Storage | 1 WD 80GB and 1 WD 250GB, both on sale and CHEAP |
Display(s) | 22" Velocity Micro > 24" Asus VW246H |
Case | Broadway Com 3045-KA El Cheapo, it has lots of vent holes in its sides with red and green fans |
Audio Device(s) | Sound Blaster Live 5.1, CHEAP even when new quite awhile back |
Power Supply | Broadway Com Corp. Okia 650ATX, ~45A on 2 rails, decent and CHEAP, lots of cables |
Software | Win XP Pro 32bit, free from work, very extreme CHEAP |
Benchmark Scores | 3DMark06, 11,794 3DMarks, 2423 CPU, 5078 SM2.0, 6249 SM3.0 |
I did have Medievil Total War 1 on my AMD rig.
As far as the upgrade path, even some of the AM2 board do not support the current Phenoms due to vendor support. It happens. Any Intel chipset from 975X and on can take current cpus, vendor dependent. 680i is the only relatively recent intel chipset that cannot take current cpus, and that's nVidia's fault, not Intel's.
AMD pulled the same socket switch that Intel is now with the 939 days. Top end on 939, bottom end on 754. Then when AM2 released, they abruptly dumped them.
AMD is no better than Intel in this respect. And while they may be focusing on retaining backwards compatibility now, don't you think that may have a bit to do with their cpus not being up to snuff with Intel? Seems like a wasted resource to me when you are this far behind. That development money would be better spent elsewhere. I know I'm sure willing to upgrade a board if there are perceivable benefits to doing so.
METWVI ONE will not run on NVIDIA 8000 series cards. I can if I want to give you the links to prove this to you. It is complete BS that METWVI ONE will run on any NVIDIA 8000 series and above video card. The troops move opposite to where you order them to go, the screen is all screwed-up, and with tweaks at best you can use the little overview screen to try and control your toops but that is a complete flop. There is a ton of info. available about this at the two well known METW and RTW mod sites.
Yes, some of the AM2 boards will not support the present Phenom CPU's but many do. I know what you mean about the jump from 754 to 939 and 940, but Intel made many more socket changes than AMD and many people have complained about this.
AMD is not that far behind Intel by any means, and the Opterons still are faster in the server market than the Intel Xeons. Fastest computers in the world are Opterons.
Many people and businesses are satisfied with the present line of AMD CPU's just as many are satisfied with Intel CPU's, just as in the past many people were satisfied with the slower Intel Prescotts and many people were not and liked the AMD Athlons better, same for the slow Intel PD's compared to the better Athlon X2's.
The more the merrier seems also to make for the better and CHEAPER.
Chris