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Originally posted by Joeiss
1) When will Pentium 5's be released?
Don't Hold your breath for a P5 and NEVER, NEVER, NEVER EVER buy the first ones out.
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2) What is the new "norm" for online play videogames (processor speed)
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Not sure, but I'd go with a 1.8 GHZ P4
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3) What is the best place to get new computers (price, Canadian or International)
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Two Words: Buy Online. It's easier to "customize" a pre-built "box" this way, and you aren't as restricted on Purchases, usually only really bad "Generic" PC's are sold in electronics stores, no Offense to shooter, but these include HP's, Sony Vaio's, eMachines, etc., if you want a decent (aka not horrendous) machine, buy a Dell, Alienware, Falcon Northwest or Gateway PC, I'd personally avoid Gateway because their new systems don't look very well built and the cases are plastic.
If you have a Store-PC it's pre-built and usually is thrown together sloppily.
"Generic Machines" are the worst, my Alienware PC was put together in a much better fashion than my two Gateway's were and had high-quality parts, but it runs USB 1.5 and I avoided Firewire because it was still too new and it cause people problems. If you're getting a PCV now make sure you get a good Graphics Card and Firewire, I do MPEG Capture on a single 1.7 GHZ P4, an early model, but obvoiusly not the first, because it's more stable than my P3 and unlike the AMD's I used it runs all games, these proccessors played "The Tortise and the Hare" With AMD as the Hare, it started great, and now Intel, the Tortise, whcihc started slow is pounding them.
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4) Are pentiums good? Or sould I go with an AMD computer?
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Like I said above, you want a P4 if you're gaming, and you want the new model that's coming out, but unless you like being a gueinea pig for a computer company, wait awhile and make sure the chips aren't liek the first P4's and the first DDR RAM chipsets for AMD which fried after about two days of use from low EMR.
Hope this helps.