Frank, love the ring of that.

I have 3 AMD systems. Based on old Tech Tv cable show recommendations purchased
an AMD 3000 system with XP. About 7 years ago. It currently operates
nicely. Dont use it much right now.

After looking at benchmark testing and success of my old HP Compaq XP AMD system.
Studied processor speeds and benchmarks of a AMD X 64 Dual-Core 5200+ Vista based
HP system. Price also entered decision. Purchased it. Have had it over 3 years
with a Nvidia 9600 graphics card added, just love the system. Do a little video
work and the rendering takes a lot of time, but whiz's thru with this system.
Couple of glitches with the VISTA (32bit windows) *&^%$# software abandoning a lot of legacy software.
All in all was and still is a very fast system. Primary Desktop right now. Also
have my old XT Audigy 2ZS card in the vista. You need a decent soundcard with
sufficient inputs/outputs. Would not necessarily make this a primary part of your
decision. Many folks here are using M-Audio which has economical and high quality
abilities.

Also purchased an ACER Aspire 7535-5320 bout 1 1/2 years ago. Has AMD Athlon with
64X2 QL65 processor. It has Win7 64 bit software. Purchased this for the portability
features. Only have maybe 100 hours on it, dont like laptops, but it seems to be
a good system. Its BenchMark speeds even tho 2 years newer than my Vista is only
3/4 or even less in its speed.

There you have it, not an AMD fan as opposed to Intel, but based on pricing, speed,
and function. Both of my 2 Desktops are HP...one HP Pavilion...one HP Compaq.
Generally speaking believe the Compaq is the smaller sister of the Pavilion.

Do not discount purchasing a system from Wally world(Walmart), then have 3 year
extension contract for about 80 bucks. The also are excellent in the honoring of
this contract. Look online at their site. My Acer on black friday 2009 was almost
300 bucks lower in price. ACER is popular in Europe.

Keep in mind Black Friday is about a month away so all the primary retailers will
have some fantastic sales coming up.

Good luck, not easy to decide these days,

Seeker

FWIW, Wally world, have no connection, just happy camper with several TV's and DVD recorders.

Last edited by seeker; 10/28/11 06:27 PM.
FrankB

Down The Street vs2015 12-03-2014
Win7, AMD QuadA8-5500,16GB,2TeraHD, Komplete 10
PG Ultra Plus 2016,Alesis 12USB, Sonar Platinum