Tech question....

[jtniehof]

So, given that Westmere is very available, and Sandy Bridge is becoming available, is there any reason to build an AMD-based system this year? It looks like they've slowly slid behind Intel and, while Bulldozer should catch them up, consumer desktop won't be until late this year, and I'm guessing a part I'd be willing to pay for is looking more like 2012.

(Build target: quiet HTPC which will also double as storage box and moderate gaming.)

Comments

[xeresrazor.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a little weak for gaming, but so is the 3000 if you're going to do any serious gaming, especially at HDTV resolutions. The 2000's more than powerful enough for video playback and transcoding.

[jnik.livejournal.com]

I was seeing the 3000 as about twice as powerful as the 2000. Of course, now that I think about it, for serious gaming I'd need a windows partition, so running Linux software RAID on the rotating drives wouldn't do it. Either the games would have to run off the SSD or I'd need yet another drive...