300mhz FSB by June?

[Ipno]

I'm planning an upgrade, and I'm closely watching technology move. I think I can stave off my craving for an upgrade a while longer, but I really need one. Currently I've a 466 mhz Celery with a Voo doo doo 3000 that runs decent, but not good if you know what I mean.

My question is do you think if I wait until June they will have 300mhz FSB out? It seems the next logical step to me, and I know some of you OCers are probably already running at that, but I'm not interested in overclocking.

 

[fkloster]

hehe, I have had mine runnin' @ 480mhz since December 2000!

 

[eyeless]

I think a 300mhz bus (with the Ahtlon I presume?) is higly unlikely in June, but 266mhz is very close! What is very possible is that we may have some AMD760mp motherboards available. The only one that I have seen pictures for is from Tyan and along with SMP, it has support for DDR and and onboard Ultra 160 controller. Very nice

The pentium4 does use a 400mhz fsb, but if you would like to upgrade in the direction of a pentium4, wait until they make their socket change. It will be around the 2ghz mark.

 

[adamone11]

I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but you guys' responses don't make sense.

Ipno: I am in your position (a little worse, actually) and I am going to upgrade late summer/early fall, when Palomino, 760MP come out full force. It's important to wait, because we won't know that much about the future P4 timeline until then. Depending on what happens, and whether or not Intel makes it so you can continuously upgrade all the way to 10ghz (or 5 for that matter), I'll either go with a P4 or two 1.5ghz, which should be the sweet spot.

Either way, Ipno, I would wait until at least one price drop past palomino.

If you don't plan on building your own, make darn well sure you buy a used system from dell, etc.

 

[TheCorm]

I reckon we will see a 166mhz (DDR 333) fsb from AMD by the end of the year, if not...why not?, they need to make some more dents on the P4 market.

Corm

 

[Ipno]

Doh, I suppose what I meant was a 150mhz FSB, (300mhz DDR). For some reason pricewatch has some PC2400 listed. Is that just OC'd ram or what?

 

[eyeless]

I assume that PC2400 would serve the same purpose as PC150 does for overclocking on a 133mhz fsb system.

 

[Samadhi]

I think the chance of the FSB increase is not great, I say this as apparently there was a lot of trouble getting things to work correctly at their current frequencies. What probably is much more likely will be that FSB and memory frequencies will be able to run non-synchronously, therefore giving access to the faster memory technologies becoming available whilst holding off the necessity of fixing the timing issues with running the FSB at the same frequencies.

 

[Wingznut]

"Depending on what happens, and whether or not Intel makes it so you can continuously upgrade all the way to 10ghz..."

Well, I can pretty much assure you that every cpu from 2ghz to 10ghz isn't going to use the exact same socket design, whether it's Intel, AMD, Cyrix or whomever.

Contrary to popular belief, a socket change is not a marketing decision. It changes, because the need of the cpu changes. (Which I'm really not going to get into, as it's just asking for a flame war.) And as the circuits in the cpu's get even smaller, those things are just going to get more critical.

 

[limsandy]

I think AMD will stick to the 266 MHz FSB for quite a while..... and they will increase the multiplier through BIOS.

 

[Insane3D]

300mhz...BAH! I am at 334mhz now....