Good time to buy a new PC?

[Punisher007]

I've been thinking about building my own pc for a while now...but can't decide whether to wait for the 800Mhz Springdale boards or just go with the current ones.

Basically I'm considering getting this now:

Asus P4C-533
PC1066 RDRAM
P4 2.xx
3-4 WD 80GB HDs in raid

However, if I wait for sprindale:
Dual channel DDR400
P4 2.xx
S-ATA

Do you guys think the performance of the 800Mhz bus will make a great difference...because I'm sure the performance of S-ATA is not good enough to make me switch over.

 

[PCMarine]

Me personally, I would wait. Mostly because springdale needs a new motherboard and ram, so If you spend $500 on that stuff you posted, you wont be able to use any of it for springdale. Or you could buy DDR-400 with a current P4 mobo and swap the ram over

 

[Wingznut]

If you can afford it now, and you want to buy it now, then... Well... Buy it now. 🙂

There will ALWAYS be something "around the corner."

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

maybe get a p4 setup, but with ddr ram instead
so you could reuse the ram again later, and sell off p4 and motherboard when you decide to upgrade

what is your current system?
if its pretty good, i would wait

 

[Punisher007]

Thanks for the input guys.

My current system is a value system:

Athlon 1600XP
ECS K7S5A
PC 133 RAM
GF3 Ti200

I think this should last me till then...I'm not dying for killer frame rates or anything.

 

[Punisher007]

TTT

 

[Daudi]

I have basically the same setup as you except a xp 1700 as cpu. I can run any game that's out right now 32bit 1600x1200 and get decent/good framerates. I don't upgrade until a game/program comes out that I can't run decently. That's how I've always used it as a measure to upgrade. If it runs any game fine right now why would you upgrade? By the time a game comes out that you can't run, the highend stuff will be alot more high end and the high end stuff right now will be CHEAPER. I hope that made sense, I'm pretty messed up right now..