NOOOOO! Quad-Core!

Yes AMD rules. They have the 4X4. Beyond intels Quad core.

AMD give you more 'bang for your buck' but currently Intel are way ahead in terms of technology.

If money is no object, then go for a medium-high range Intel.

If your on a` budget go for an AMD.

Personally I always go for Intel, but I need virtualisation (which AMD only just started doing), and Intel make good chipsets for everything but graphics.

Thing will change, and in a few months it will all be completely different again, if not already.

Ta,

~C

It all is already the Amd PHENOM processor line.

rpwolf.....make sure all of your drives are turned on in the bios and they may need formatted if they are new before it will recognize them.

that's a lot of hard drive space.....hate to wonder what you are planning on doing with it.

Thu 01/24/08 03:06 PM
I have been building computers since '95. Each predeccessor to vista would just recognize a new hd whenever I replaced or added one. Well, I built a new system because my previous system wasn't good enough for vista premium, it would've run vista basic. But, aero was one of the big things about vista, so, I wanted windows vista premium. Well, my new mobo has 5 sata inputs. So I have 3 sata hds and 2 sata dvd drives, but, I could never get vista to recognize more than 1 sata hd. I found out last night that vista won't recognize a drive until it's formatted. So, if anyone else has this problem. Start CONTROL PANEL, select SYSTEM AND MAITENANCE, then under ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS select CREATA AND FORMAT HARD DISK PARTITIONS. The new drive will appear. Format it, and then it will showup in explorer or my computer.

aloneagain, if I would have read your post sooner it would have saved me many headaches.

thanks anyways.

jeez.......95 and I even believe 3.1 would at least tell you they were there and then have you format them. The explorer in vista won't. That's what through me.

AMD is the way to go and if you are replacing a motherboard then also get a new processor. all of the other components should work fine just make sure if your drives are IDE that you find a motherboard that supports all the IDE devices you have. A lot of the newer MOBO are SATA with only one IDE channel so the max is two IDE devices.