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um, maybe because things plug into it?

Thanks for doing this. Anyone care to include a photo of the proper way to mate a 20 pin PSU to a 24 Pin MB?

The upgrade is going to get you what, maybe 30% better performance, for what, $280 bucks, or more once you upgrade the memory. What's the rush?

754 isn't going away any time soon, since AMD is moving their value line to it, and PCIe is going to be mainstream (nVidia already has low priced cards on the way), so you can bet there will be a variety of 754 PCIe boards, its just a matter of when

Why would it? AMD has pretty much end-of-lifed the AthlonXP and SocketA. Socket 754 will definitely get it, but I'd be really suprised about SocketA.

I'm eyeing that board at NewEgg too. Appearantly it won't OC at all, which is probably fine for me, since I'm more about reliability than constant tuning and tweaking. On the other hand, the main reason I'm even considering a PCIe board right now is that I'm looking to maximize my options...

"Darn?" You may not be able to get dual 16x slots, but you can get dual 8x AND these days 4x is probably sufficient for the cards on the market in gaming use. For gaming use, it seems to me that one could dedicate one card to the central display at max res, and the other to driving the...

I don't do major upgrades often, preferring instead to nickle and dime processor, memory and vid card upgrades. I've been happy with the value of going this way. When I do upgrade, I stay in the mid-range. This time out I'm going to go PCIe. It's got a real future. AGP is already looking...

I don't have a good answer, but given that AMD is phasing out Socket A and seems to be making 754 the platform for Semprons at the same time that vid-card makers are making PCIe cards for the low to mid-end of the market, I'd guess that we will see socket 754 MBs with PCIe before too long. My...