Building a PC

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by DJilla

In my career I've built about 1000 (no joke) PC's starting way back with the original 8086/8088's.

You're showing your age here. I too remember when the Kaypro 10 was launched and no one could figure out what you could possibly do with a lugable 10 Meg Drive.

I agree that I could end up wasting a bunch of time and since I'll be ordering everything on-line if I buy a combination that doesn't play well I could end up spending a huge amount of time here.

Originally Posted by DJilla

Because gaming systems are designed to be the best, fastest, most out there PC's and a system that won't as quickly become obsolete.

That's not what I'm seeing from bench test results and that's why I mentioned my needs above.

While I see that the Athlon FX-57 and Pentium EE 840 gaming chips rock when doing a single process that doesn't require buffering such as running Half Life these chips don't perform even close to the dual core business chips when doing video compression or multitasking. If I built a gaming PC I'll need to replace it much sooner then if I build it to meet my business needs.

In fact in every benchmark I've seen the gaming chips are 10% to 15% faster at games but 20% slower at multitasking and video compression.