Hey guys, it's been a long time since I've posted. I started university last September, and everythings been changing. I try and come here every now and again but I just can't feel compelled to answer banal questions like I used to do happily. Guess everything changes over time. Which leads onto my actual point, does anyone from the 2002 onwards era (Big B, Anti-Trend and you guys) still know what the hell is going on in the technology world? I used to follow it closely and had decent knowledge to help people, but here I am 12:30 am thinking that I know absolutely nothing about the latest hardware. Processor models numbers, GPUs everything. So the mentor now becomes the mentee (?) and needs a clue. I'm basically looking for a new PC, my current laptop's a Sempron 1.8Ghz with 512mb RAM. Performance is no where near enough to really do useful stuff quickly. I need a powerful system that can handle games well. My current hardware is brought to its knees compiling a large codebase like Amarok. Posted this here since it's related and unrelated at the same time.
Well I'm keeping fairly on top of the latest tech - Job means I have to - although I'm sure that I'd soon let it slip again if my job had to change. Don't know if you'd class me as part of the old lads though ^_^ Do you have a budget for your new system, are you still set on AMD (as I still am!)
I'm currently thinking about a Phenom X3 720 based system, from what I can gather these CPUs are decently priced and overclock well. The rest of the system is still pretty much guess work, but I'm hoping to get the price down to around £600 inc monitor if I can.
welcome to my world, i too am constantly baffled by the speed of progression, i personally have decided to "let it do what it wants" & tackle issues as they appear
