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Currently have...
1GB DDR PC2700 RAM
Radeon 9800 XT
2600 XP + (clocked at 3200 speeds)
40GB HD with 512k cache
Looking for something to see me well into next year, most of all I don't want any dodgy frame glitches and what not with Half Life 2 and Doom 3. Will wait for PCI Express as far as my graphics card is concerned, everything else can go though. The RAM has taken a beating with heavy over clocks, as has the CPU. I know the cache on the Hard Drive needs seeing to, not bothered about the RPM as 7200 is ample.
This is mainly aimed at NB or someone else who really knows what they are talking about. How far off are the new socket CPU's and Mobo's from release? Worth an upgrade yet or would you hand back until October when things start to hot up with the X800?
Cheers!
Currently have...
1GB DDR PC2700 RAM
Radeon 9800 XT
2600 XP + (clocked at 3200 speeds)
40GB HD with 512k cache
Looking for something to see me well into next year, most of all I don't want any dodgy frame glitches and what not with Half Life 2 and Doom 3. Will wait for PCI Express as far as my graphics card is concerned, everything else can go though. The RAM has taken a beating with heavy over clocks, as has the CPU. I know the cache on the Hard Drive needs seeing to, not bothered about the RPM as 7200 is ample.
This is mainly aimed at NB or someone else who really knows what they are talking about. How far off are the new socket CPU's and Mobo's from release? Worth an upgrade yet or would you hand back until October when things start to hot up with the X800?
Cheers!
Ie I would give the market time to mature then plump for a 64 bit processor
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Just wondering whether to hold back for the new socket CPU's though.
> Yeah am looking at one on Ebuyer...
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> [URL]http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=61316[/URL]
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> Just wondering whether to hold back for the new socket CPU's though.
Geez geezer - you're dead serious aren't you? :P
I would wait for the next generation of motherboards though, especially with the much hyped socket 939 and PCI express on the way...
With RAM, I went for PC3500 although my mobo only supports PC3200 (it was only an extra £5 and they didn't have the PC3200 stuff I wanted in stock). When I compare it to various benchmarks of very similar systems to mine (e.g. same mobo/processor/hdd/os) but with PC3200 RAM, mine seems a lot faster. Not sure if it just stops the RAM being a bottleneck, but I get over 8.5GB/s transfer rate off my RAM.