Recent content by AstroDav

Colinstu, not including the 3 APU's which I stated as more of a curiosity, I listed 6 specific CPU's I am looking at, ranging from $160'ish to $220'ish. Does that not give you a pretty decent hint at what budget I'm thinking about processor-wise? The questions were firmly grouped around just...

Add this. Maybe it'll help with the CPU choice between Intel 4-cores & AMD 8-cores. 3 things I basically do: 1. I game. NEVER on-line. My games are almost entirely simulators. SimCity4, upcoming SimCity Limited, Trainz 2011, Cities-XL, Tropico-4, Civ-5, junk like that. I'm not running &...

I use to build computers all the time, maybe 20-25 total, but that was WAY back in the 2-core days. I just simply burned out & didn't have fun doing it any longer. But I still do my own family computers, since I'm a bit picky. I guess I was pretty good at picking the pieces, since this ancient...