[pchelpers] Re: AMD Sempron Chip
- From: Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
- To: PcCowboy <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:25:39 -0500
Hi PcCowboy,
Wednesday, June 14, 2006, 2:47:30 PM, you wrote:
P> I have been told that the Emachines has the highest return rate.
P> When I was working as a tech, the Emachine was the ones that
P> I worked on the most for hardware problems (mainly power supplies),
P> then Gateway and then Dell.
Gateway has some low-profile computers with itty-bitty power supplies
on which the fans are virtually guaranteed to die. I don't know if
they're still selling that model, though.
There *IS* such a thing as "too cheap".
Semprons and Durons are like Intels' Celerons; they have less cache,
so are noticeably cheaper. However, this also makes them slower.
512 MB is adequate for most purposes, unless you're doing video
processing, in which case 1 GB is better.
--
Scott.
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