How important do you think M2 will be?

[obeseotron]

My current PC seems to be dying a slow death. I've actually thought it was dead a few times for good, dies half way through the BIOS all the time. I figured out that roughly every 3 reboots I have to power down the system, reset the cmos, and switch the RAM from 0/1 to 2/3 DIMM slots or vice versa in order to get it to start again. This is no fun but for reasons beyond me that little trick seems to get it back up and running every time.

I'm going to rebuild the core of the system at some point soon with roughly $1000 for a new Motherboard, CPU, RAM, and GPU. I'd really, really like to wait until June 6th when AM2 is launching, because I don't want to buy new DDR1 and want to get stuck with an older socket and thus less chance for upgrading down the road. Do you guys think it's worth sticking it out 3 and a half more months with this extremely irritating situation I have now?

 

[mikester]

If this is like previous launches, it will probably be 6 months or more before you have a large supply of AM2 motherboards and chips to choose from. If you look at the roadmaps, there really isn't anything too exciting coming out this year that makes AM2 a "must have" platform - basically more dual cores that are a little faster. That's the compelling factor for me - i.e. I was happy with my S754 system until I wanted dual core and it wasn't available, so I upgraded to S939. The way I see it, AM2 won't be that compelling until they start releasing quad-core or more processors, and we're at least a year away from those (probably more like 18-24 months).

So I think S939 is a viable platform for at least the next 18 months, and by then most of us will be ready to upgrade anyway. At least I hope so - that's the rationalization I used when I built my new system 3 months ago.

 

[Bobthelost]

It looks like there'll be a modest performance boost from it and DDR2 800, but not enough to burry 939 yet.