December computer guide?

[Pandamonium]

I'm bored.

Basically I've resolved to bring my NF7-S v2, Barton, memory, and 9600Pro home over winter break and put them inside a D.Vine X235 or something similar. I'd just have to buy a TV tuner and DVD drive- I have spare hard drives. But that would leave me without a computer at school, conveniently enough. I think I've got the upgrade itch going...

So let's speculate. What kind of components might give the bang-for-your-buck come early January?

I figure nForce4 motherboards will be out- but I'm wondering if PCIe video cards will have been out long enough for their pricing to match their AGP equivalents. Do you think a 90nm A64, NF4 mobo, 6800GT, and 1GB memory could be had for ~$400 or so? Maybe, dare I say it, even $300 or so? I need some opinions here- I've been out of the computer hardware loop for the entire semester, but it seems that these are today's slightly-better-than-value components. I just want some discussion concerning whether they may be expected to become the value components of January 7th, 2005. Sorry if this is a repost or anything like that. I haven't really been on the forums that much lately either.

 

[ts3433]

I don't think so, since even right now a 6800 GT is around $350 to $400 by itself, 90nm CPUs are ~$200+ IIRC, a gig of RAM, $160 (and RAM prices are probably the least likely to move at all), and an NF4 board will probably be quite expensive too.

 

[basslover1]

Originally posted by: Pandamonium
I'm bored.

Basically I've resolved to bring my NF7-S v2, Barton, memory, and 9600Pro home over winter break and put them inside a D.Vine X235 or something similar. I'd just have to buy a TV tuner and DVD drive- I have spare hard drives. But that would leave me without a computer at school, conveniently enough. I think I've got the upgrade itch going...

So let's speculate. What kind of components might give the bang-for-your-buck come early January?

I figure nForce4 motherboards will be out- but I'm wondering if PCIe video cards will have been out long enough for their pricing to match their AGP equivalents. Do you think a 90nm A64, NF4 mobo, 6800GT, and 1GB memory could be had for ~$400 or so? Maybe, dare I say it, even $300 or so? I need some opinions here- I've been out of the computer hardware loop for the entire semester, but it seems that these are today's slightly-better-than-value components. I just want some discussion concerning whether they may be expected to become the value components of January 7th, 2005. Sorry if this is a repost or anything like that. I haven't really been on the forums that much lately either.

No offense intended, but I think you're smoking some serious crack. 90nm A64 will drop in price, but deppending on speed, we'll say 3200+ not under 150. NF4 mobo, seeing as it's just coming out prolly run ya 125ish for a decent one. 6800GT will still cost over 250 since they are still hovering around 300+ right now anyway. Gig of the cheaper ram crucial, or kingston value stuff is still gonna be over 100. Even with my speculated prices, you're still lookin at 625+ easy. Maybe in like a year you could get all that for under 400, but not now since PCIe is still pretty new, and NF4 isn't even available yet.

 

[Pandamonium]

Heh I just glanced over the computer guide that was stickied. My god, it's like prices shot through the roof in the last year or something...

I just want to order stuff- but it doesn't make sense to order it all now if I can't use it until later anyway. It's so damn frustrating.

Alright, I'm forcing myself to watch another bio lecture before pulling up this thread again.