Hi, Why you spend more money

Allnsmth — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:34:30 +0000

Hi,
Why you spend more money ......?
You want to installed basic software ..that's all software run in your old PC ..upgrade your processeser and increase you RAM....!

I would say that, for

davecoventry — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:53:44 +0000

I would say that, for everyday computing, anything around 1.6 GHz (which is the minimum entry level today) is more than adequate. Go with the cheaper board IMO.

The PCIe story is interesting.

I had to set up 8 ship simulators which needed a 3x 24" flatscreen monitor configuration and I would have thought that the dual PCIe slot motherboards would have been fine for this. However, it appears that the SLI configuration is solely for one of the cards to donate it's resources to the other and it does not support more than 2 monitors (one on DVi, the other on VGA).

For this I needed a PCIe card and a PCI graphics card, and this supported up to 4 monitors.

For anyone who has ever tried it, 3 monitors is the business!

I used a 2 monitor setup to do draughting in CAD, and that was good with one screen handling the drawing itself and the other screen handling the command line interface, word processing and spreadsheet references, etc, but the 3 screen is even better.

I would say that the second

benjy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:19:29 +0000

I would say that the second board is definately more geared towards gaming, or server build.

I have looked up the info, but can't find any on the second board.

Usually, a gaming specific board will be SLI compatible (have 2 PCI-express slots for video cards).
A server type board will tend to have dual (or more) CPU sockets, amongst other things.

Basically, for a general everyday PC get the cheaper one - any dual core computer should suffice for everyday needs.