On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:55:32 -0500 "Peter Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A few people recommended the AMD Athlon processor over > Pentiums. Correct, e.g. more efficient in floating point operations than an Intel, which you will appreciate in multimedia apps, but there are also commercial apps which are specialized for Intel and only for Intel. So it might also be dependend on which applications you're going to use. But usually I would prefer AMD. > And Matrox for video, I never used a matrox, but it's strength lies AFAIK in 2D and TV out quality. If you need a good 3D card (e.g. if you're a gamer) then I guess it would be a better idea to buy an ATI which seems to have slightly better performance than NVidia based cards at the moment. >Soundblaster or Ensoniq for sound. Depends on what you're doing. Usually most people don't spend too much consideration on their sound card. If you just want to know if they're supported - Soundblaster is very well supported. But if you want to make music you probably want to look for a better card or even an external audio interface. No matter which card you'll prefer, I recommend it is mentioned on this list: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ > I've heard that computers nowadays are built with the cheapest > possible components, Nowadays? Of course on low-end computers, I don't remember a time when that was not the case, but you also have to see the aspect that computers are now as cheap as never before. There was a time when you had to spend more than 5000$ for a lame 8088 (not even mentioning it's poor capabilies). And today, if you were still willing to spend those 5000$ ... do you think you'd have to fear poor components? > so I was wondering if building it myself would be a good idea. > It might not be much cheaper than buying one from Dell or Gateway, but > if the result was a better quality machine it might be worthwhile. If you have the time and patience, it always will. > So far I've > only had to replace broken components in my Gateway, such as the hard > drive and CDrom, also added memory. Building a computer would be a > challenge, but I think I'd enjoy doing it... Don't worry, fortunately doing that is child's play nowadays. Regards, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
