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Goodbye Socket A....

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Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
Since we're on the subject of long lasting ports, do you think PCI-Express will survive as long as AGP did?
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Or longer yet, the serial or parallel ports. :Q
 
lol, looks like everybody EXCEPT me loved socket A, i myself had 3 of them, all of them getting fried or falling off of chairs at the end....

the fact that the surface area was SO tiny is my major turnoff for them.... get a heavy copper HS and you set your tower down the wrong way and you crack your chip, (first one to go).. also had one just die and take the mobo with it... then finnally i made the stupid mistake of setting my 3rd socket A on a chair while i was going to get another tower (got smart and went intel, but never bought another intel since, AMD ftw) and while sitting on that chair it goes tumbling down... cracked the cpu, again (also lost a socket 7 to the same chair, and still use it to lay computers on, ill never learn)

but i do have to say, i think that during that stage of me HATING amd, i never saw how good they were, just the number of them i have lost.... lol.. and the plentiful supply of intel boards and cpus. then i hit P4, then i finnally opened my eyes for my athlon64, and boy this thing flys compared to intel chips... (allthough i with i had an intel right now because of the massive computing power i need, no game for me recently)

./sigh, sorry amd for turning my back on you, i will never do that again!
 
still run a xp2000 that runs a webserver, ftpserver, bf2 practice (home cable connection, only about 12 peeps can get on, but depending on if the wife can do work from home and we can write off the internet i might bump it up to 9Mb/s down 1Mb/s up so i should be able to get ~18 on...) server and holds the hdds where i do most of my backups to...up 24/7 with 1 reboot a week on a biostar nforce2 board. excellent setup. wifes machine is a 1GHz athlon, still a good machine...hell my machine is 1.25 yrs old and about the only thing i need is a new graphics card ->6800gt and maybe a ps to play all the newest games at decently high resolutions - 1280x1024 medium. with the uli chipset coming out, that is where i will probably go next maytbe...depending on the m2 setups available, wouldd still like to use agp since its limits have not been reached and the high end agp cards will be coming down pretty soon in the fs/ft section as people go with the 7800 and whatever ati throws out in the near future 🙂 anybody have a link to info about m2?
 
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