Need suggestions on Upgrade

Dud3! · Posted: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:15:22 Post Subject:

Uhh, no, I'm IN the country, I'm not country. Any countryness is because I'm surrounded by it.

Three years of TN will do bad things to someone like me...

Dr_Pentium · Rated R Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 58 Location: Toronto

ok after a closer look at it. I've decided the following..
Wait until PCI Express hits the market, wait until the ATi R420 or even 423 comes out. hopefully that will be by latest in october. And i will build a new pc then. Until now this 2.1 athlon and 8500 will have to suffice.

But Grin

with my tax return whic i got in the mail i will pick up a home theatre in a box to go with my tv. Cant afford custom setup of seprate speakers receiver and dvd player, nor do i have the space.

So i'm lookin at one of these 3 things

http://www.jvc.ca/en/consumer/product-detail.asp?model=QP-ES7

http://www.jvc.ca/en/consumer/product-detail.asp?model=TH-M65

http://www.panasonic.ca/English/audiovideo/audio/hometheatre/scht900s.asp

so yeah.. thats that i'll end up buying one of these instead of a computer right now (besides this is something i can get reimbursed for by my parents Afro

)

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:00:07 Post Subject:

I think a good call on the PC.

For the other... I can't comment directly on those peices, however it's been my experince that JVC makes better audio than does Panasonic.

However if you can find it in Canada, and I'm not sure on the price... but check out something like this from Onkyo: http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?m=LS-V500C&class=Systems&p=i

evilburl · Posted: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:41:15 Post Subject:

trekrider · Posted: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:06:29 Post Subject:

Wish I would have seen this article from Tom's Hardware Guide b4 I ordered this P4 2.8E Prescott chip!!

**Excerpt:"In our opinion, the debut of a processor based on a cutting-edge process technology and architecture that only offers the same performance level as the predecessor is unanticipated. Despite 1 MB L2 cache and some optimizations, Prescott is slower than Northwood in roughly a third of our benchmarks. Software, like many 3D shooters and more serious applications like Lame, MS Movie Maker 2, Mathematica, Cinema 4D or even 3DStudio perform worse than before. "**

Link: http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040201/index.html

Bang Head

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:09:13 Post Subject:

That doesn't sound good! Have you fired yours up yet?

trekrider · Posted: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:34:18 Post Subject:

Not yet.....(have had issues with the "problem child" that has now been evicted from the premisses!), I will be building the system this evening!

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:37:22 Post Subject:

Cool... I tried the mini mobo out last night! Sweet... I may trade some other stuff and get a second P4 for use in this full time!

trekrider · Posted: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:42:43 Post Subject:

I might have a P4 2.8E available in a few weeks...LOL