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shirschmokealot · 01-31-2007, 11:26 PM

Which is best for gaming a Pentium D 2.8 Ghz or Athlon 64 X2 4200? Thanks
And are Intel P4 Xeon's any good for gaming? And this computer has two seperate ones. And is having two hard drives with raid 0 make a difference than just one?

MeatRo · 01-31-2007, 11:29 PM

Most gamers go with AMD.

shirschmokealot · 01-31-2007, 11:51 PM

Okay I am going to list a bunch of specs of computers that are in my price range and can you guys tell me which you would recommend for gaming? And unless the computer has a better video card keep in mind that I will be replacing it with a Nvidia 128MB video card until I can afford DX10.

Setup 1.
Pentium D 820 2.8 GHz
1024 MB DDR2 533MHz
160 GB SATA 7200RPM with data burst cache

Setup 2.
Athlon 64 X2 4200 2.2GHz
1GB PC2-4200
200GB SATA 7200RPM

Setup 3.
Dual Intel Xeon 2.8GHz (two cpus installed)
1GB DDR2
Two 36GB SCSI U320
nVidia Quadro 4 900GXL

**IGemini** · 02-01-2007, 12:28 AM

Xeons are designed for floating point computing performance, not gaming. Of the three listed, the second one is the best setup.

Which begs the question, where/why are you getting this computer? These setups are pretty random. If there's money to crunch on Xeon cores, even the old ones, you could just go Core 2.

Darque Pervert · 02-01-2007, 12:43 AM

The Dual CPU system isn't going to gain you any performance in gaming. Strike that right out.

Either 1 or 2 would be more than suffuicient for gaming, when equipped with a quality 3D video card. Personally, I'm partial to AMD. The price/performance ratio is so much better than Intel, although Intel currently makes the fastest CPUs.

shirschmokealot · 02-01-2007, 01:45 AM

Damnit I wanted that second computer so bad, and theres only 30 minutes left in the bid. My mom was like sure its your money you can buy it. Then shes like I think we should wait before buying a computer. WTF? Shit. I think shes on drugs. (literally)

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