Thanks for the suggestions guys. I really like the design of the new Asus Star Ice cooler too, any experience? It's precisely how I would have built my own cooler, if I only had the motivation. :)
Show me how the A64 is faster and cheaper, especially since I don't have any 64-bit apps to use on it yet. My primary focus here is improving a/v editing/processing times. I did a little bit of research on that proc but I just don't know if it will serve as useful for what I want to do.
Give me an alternative mobo/cpu pair to look at, this upgrade is primarily aimed at helping me do more video editing/processing. The P4 3.4 is $270, while the equiv. A64 is about $260...
Yeup I have an enermax 450w psu if I remember correctly (will have to double check that). After my old one bit the dust I went balls out with that (at the time). :)
Thanks for the input guys. Darth, it's not toooooo expensive, looking at about $800 shipped for everything but then again I am...
My mistake! Just checked, the laptop is a P4M 1.4ghz, not 1.2. Even still I am surprised it still outruns the AMD desktop despite the obvious storage bottleneck.
So I haven't done a system upgrade in about 4 years now, and it's just damn time. I just read about 6 hours worth of reviews and product pages (I read fast, too) and now I think I've come to this configuration:
Asus P5AD2 Deluxe
I chose this over the Premium because I don't feel the extra...
To throw another one out there, how about the Kingston offering? I read a review that even their value ram line overclocks to 667 pretty well...
<-- out of touch with new news on computer components :(
I can attest that my dinky P4M 1.2ghz laptop (with 512mb ram and an ata-66 4200rpm drive) will handily outrun my desktop Athlon Tbird 1.4ghz (with 256mb and multiple uata/100 7200rpm drives) when it comes to any kind of video processing... strangely the Athlon is faster with audio though...
I'm building a new system and have chosen the Prescott 3.4ghz processor... naturally the stock cooler has got to go, so...
Thus far I've read 3 reviews on this CoolerMaster Hyper 48 cooler. 1 was glowing, 1 was good, and the other was meh. Both the glowing and the good review showed great...
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