[Bubba]

Don't get me wrong, I do understand the geeky thrill - I built this box from scratch myself but nowdays can't be arsed.

Cost was the greatest consideration really and it should keep me happy for a while - compared to this AMD Athlon 2800+ based box it's going to run at warp speed.

[slackline]

compared to this AMD Athlon 2800+ based box it's going to run at warp speed.

I went from a similar system with 2Gb RAM to my dual-core @3.0Ghz w/4Gb RAM and have been dead impressed (especially since I compile everything from source, on the old system it took +8hrs to compile OpenOffice, new system < 1hr).

Dead happy with it, infinitely faster and should easily last me another six years 

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Not sure what happened to the link but that's the one - I went for Quad Core mainly for running Adobe CS stuff and the mobo/graphics card have pretty good rep.

I looked into building a similar spec from scratch myself, both from a barebones, and from the case upwards and the cost would have significantly higher - when you factor in the time it takes, why bother?

How are you getting on with your machine Bubba? And did you install 64bit in the end? If so how are you finding it? I have spoken to a few people who have software compatibility issues with 64bit.

[Paul B]

with which software packages?

[Bubba]

How are you getting on with your machine Bubba? And did you install 64bit in the end? If so how are you finding it? I have spoken to a few people who have software compatibility issues with 64bit.

It's great

No problems whatsoever. If a program isn't 64bit compatible then it just gets installed as 32bit. The only "problem" I've had is having to run Photoshop in 32bit mode in order to use the Nik plugins, but that's not really that much of a problem.

[Jim]

also the patch for the full photoshop cs4 only works on the 32bit.
Thats the only compatability issue I've ever had.
64bit is the way forward

[slackline]

64bit is the way forward

  64-bit is the here and now.

The future will be 128/256/512-bit computing but there aren't any commercial 128-bit processors....yet.

[cofe]

1024bit is the way forward

[Jim]

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