my friend as offered to be a guiney pig!

I recently built a computer and stuck with what I know (intel and nvidia)but my friend, building for the first time, is going to go with amd and ati.I really have no Idea what to tell him about that hardware. so what should he get?acording to him money is no object (I say other wise seeing he is in 8th grade, and has no source of income, including is parents)so when sugjesting hardware pretend money is no object:lol: my friend as offered to be a guiney pig!
If money is no issue then he should definitely go with Intel and Nvidia. If money does matter, I would still try and get an Intel.my friend as offered to be a guiney pig!
he wants to go amd and ATI. . .
Well, here's the big thing with AMD... I've been using a 5400+ dual core since August now, and it's a fine and dandy processor for sure. But it just gets blown out of the water by intel with their huge caches and oc'ing ability. the 6400+ used to be pretty good, but now the black edition isn't in circulation any longer, so you're stuck at 3.2ghz. My personal advice is, go for the AMD phenom quads, as they are great processors. If you're planning on going dual core though, it's really slim pickings when it comes to AMD. I'd personally go with an ASUS striker mobo, some 1200 ram and a Phenom quad core. Get a good quality Corsair PSU, maybe an Antec 900 Case (your call on case, all preference), maybe a blu ray drive :p, go for a 4870 or better yet wait for the 4870x2 to come out. 24 inch monitor, and you're made in the shade my friend.
[QUOTE=''zachslayer'']he wants to go amd and ATI. . .[/QUOTE] Then tell him to go with ATI and Intel. Intel's processor lineup blows AMD's out of the water, while ATI does have the graphics performance edge between $200-$300.And never say money is no object. We can get a computer budget up to $7000 before even starting on the actual hardware components inside the case.
please guys, let him live and learn, can you give some sugjestions, and $7000 is nothing.I saw my dad building a computer for his work(paid by our tax dollars) at it totalled almost $100,000, have you ever heard of a G.R.A.P processor? ^^^ sorry about the rant, I know you didn't mention hardware but I just had to.
I fail to see how a workstation computer (with a processor I've never heard of) your dad built for work compares to a computer your friend wants to build.And if your friend is looking to spend that much, he's probably better off going with a pre-built machine. I wouldn't trust anyone who has no experience outside Intel and Nvidia to set up that much worth of hardware.
[QUOTE=''RayvinAzn'']I fail to see how a workstation computer (with a processor I've never heard of) your dad built for work compares to a computer your friend wants to build.And if your friend is looking to spend that much, he's probably better off going with a pre-built machine. I wouldn't trust anyone who has no experience outside Intel and Nvidia to set up that much worth of hardware. [/QUOTE]just ranting. . .forget I posted it. . .the grap is a processor that run at about 1 teraFLOP and if it had emotions, it would be very board, it does the same algerithem over and over again
Floating point performance is much more important in a GPU than a CPU in a home environment.
I went AMD and ATI, just because I was on a budget. My 5000+ Black edition and 4850 are able to max out all of my games and get around 40fps in Crysis on all HIgh. Personally I don't see the need for a better setup, maybe for the future? My uncle has an e8400 and a 4850 and the cpu really doesn't make that huge of a difference since all the games are more GPU dependent.