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AMD Athlon
nihilist:
GPU, that's up to the person. Sound is built-in. 3rd-party HSF is a personal choice, not a requirement, especially with the Pentium Ms. PSU comes with the case. HDD and CD/DVD is also up to the user. I've got most of that stuff lying around, so I don't bother to include it. I just drop what I have in this box into the next one.
c1utch:
ehhh using built in sound tends to bog down the system, and a PSU that comes with a case is not somthing I like to do myself. Also, I suppose if you're using a pentium-m its alright w/o a hsf, but if its an OEM chip of any kind, you'll need one anyway. Besides, amds run hot, so i'd beef up my cooling anyway, esp if bumping it up a bit.
thats all i had to do on my last comp too, just move my HDDs over. I could kept a lot more, but its so much more fun with new stuff :)
nihilist:
Well, the Antec case that I chose came with a 380W PSU, which is overkill for a Pentium M. They draw so very little power, and emit so very little heat. Mmm.
I generally buy new parts for my system with some regularity, minus the CPU/mobo/RAM. Those I generally abuse for about two years. My current system is only a year old, but it is at the end of the upgrade path. I'm tempted to spend about $400 on putting an AMD64 3200+ in, because then it's just a simple swap out of the mobo/CPU. And since I'm running a watercooled rig, it means that I can bump out some nice speed increases. I figure I can get it into 4000+ territory pretty easily.
infract:
Tom's Hardware big guide on AMD Athlon processors
I own an Athlon 64 3200+ (actual clock speed 2211MHz) and it's great. Looking forward to 64 bit windows, but when I'm running Linux in 64 bit mode, it really shines
I also own a laptop with an Athlon xp-mobile 2200+ CPU. it's good, but gets really noisy and spews heat like a tea-kettle.
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