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Hi everyone and if its not too late, a Happy New Year to you all.
At present I'm keeping my eyes peeled for bits for a PC for my partner who is still working with an Intel 233MMX PC. Snag is he currently has three ISA slots which are all populated. Having been browsing the motherboard sites lately, I suspect we'll have to upgrade those boards as well as ISA slots are just about dead.
We'll probably finish up getting him a new PC and when we do I'll almost certainly back up his existing HDs using Norton Ghost then restoring his setup to the new PC.
Ghost DOES transfer everything including the OS and once restored, perhaps taking 5-10 minutes per disk/partition (or more depending on the contents of the backup), you simply reboot your PC.
Done this many a time particularly when I had problems installing everything from scratch when I installed a new motherboard earlier this year. Worked perfectly every time.
Incidentally, the impression I get is that the AMD processor is the preferred processor these days. What do people on the forum think on this and what version of AMD processor would people get?
I also understand that the RISC processor is likely to be available sometime soon. However, since this is being developed by Intel I suppose this is likely to be out of the range of my pocket for a very long time to come.
Tracey
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Tracey
My preferred chip is Fritos :-)
My new DELL has a Pentium 4 chip. AMD has made good headway but Intel has such marketing clout I don't think they are going to just fade away.
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Of course Wintel won't fade away. This said: Intel made a bad choice with their choice of memory for the early P4's, and now they try to jump on AMD's fast riding train.
AMD's newest (forgot the name) and P4 are of equal value (speed, large files,...). AMD is a lot cheaper but hasone big disadvantage, and that is heat-production. You have to install at least a big processor cooler and a tower cooler. This makes the PC noisier and it consummates more electricity.
In my opinion, depending on what you intend to do with it, a PIII 750 will do fine, except if you work for StarWars or are a gamer. Tests have shown that the new memory is only 15% faster than SDRam, and be honest: most PC's are far too strong and fast for what they have to do.
And the last PIII's are now sold at quite cheap prices.
I personally prefer a home made (or shop made if you don't like to play with the parts yourself) PC to a known brand beause Compaq, Packard-Bell etc install their own software in/with windows, and this eats up systems resources (not RAM), and also because I prefer to choose each part myself (brand of RAM, Mobo, Processor, HDD, CDRW etc).
But this is, of course, a personal choice.
If you don't work against time, time often works for you.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> This makes the PC noisier and it consummates more electricity. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Go to http://www.frozen-silicon.de - they offer low noise or even no noise coolers for AMD systems. The softcoolers are the best.
jens
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My thanks to everyone who responded to my question regarding processors etc. I've now emailed the thread to myself so I can read and consider the points made when the time arrives to do something in replacing my partners system. Again, many thanks.
Tracey