How long will Gigahertz cpu's last us?

[erikiksaz]

I don't really see anything on the horizon that should require anything higher than 1 gig, so how long do you think they'll last. But when it comes to video cards, hopefully a geforce 2 should last for a good year, hopefully.

 

[kami]

I damn well hope my P3 980 and GF2 GTS last me a year. I lived for 19 months with a Voodoo3, so I think I'll be ok.

 

[zippy]

14 months of sweet lovin' for me and my G400 MAX. The 2d is just too good to let go of! Plus, it kicks aiss in Rogue Spear and, to a lesser extent, UT which are really the only two games I play!

Oh, and my P3 550e@808 is working on it's 9th month!

 

[Yzzim]

Celeron 366@550 w/Maxi Gamer Xentor (TNT2, 16MB) for 18 months and still goin'!

 

[Vinny N]

Classic Athlon 500 + Gigabyte GA-7IX on its 14th month now.

Voodoo3 was recently retired after 12 months. Geforce 2 GTS begins its life

 

[JellyBaby]

A Giga ought to get you to Christmas 2001 OK but in Q1/Q2 of 2002 you'll be looking at an upgrade again.

 

[Imaginer]

I hope it would last me 3 years.

 

[Vinny N]

In all seriousness, a gigahertz cpu or any cpu for that matter will last you until it dies.
You shouldn't be replacing it unless there is some new application/game that you absolutely want/need that requires the latest hardware. If you replace for any other reason, you're just easily tempted by new technology and might be somewhat spoiled Used computers as "slow" as P133s or perhaps even slower are still being purchased by people and its enough for what little things they have to do.

 

[rojay]

The only think that's gonna slap a 1 gig computer around anytime soon is Doom III. That's still aways off, too, so don't worry about it.

 

[erikiksaz]

Hopefully the gig should last. i'm getting that gut feeling. When i first bought my cel550, i knew there were better things on the horizon, but i didn't have the cash to afford it. now amd comes along with a kickass cpu that i'm sure should last, and everything is all good. the only problem is that damned video card though. i wonder if games like halo and max payne will run fine on a gig w/ geforce 2.

 

[John]

I hope this 1350MHz Tbird will last me at least 6 months before I get the "upgrade bug" again.

 

[JayPatel]

2 years on my Pentium II 400 and CL Riva TNT before i got the upgrade bug and am now at my current setup.

 

[Degenerate]

hey right now i am running on a P1 166 laptop!!!

my PC is in Aust. It still works fine going online and all.

But hopefully a P3600 will last for another year

 

[Bluga]

I'm looking forward to DUAL K8 @ 2GHz+ in 2001.

 

[borealiss]

it depends on your need. a 1ghz chip would last me a couple of years at least.

 

[Confused]

i've heard that there is a law that some bloke in the 70s or 80s came up with that CPU speeds will double every 18 months. games are the ONLY thing (other than 3d apps) that are pusing pc technology forward at the rate it's currently going. almost everything (except the latest games and 3d apps) will run perfectly fine on a 1 gig cpu, heck, most will work fine on a Pentium 1!! i shouldn't worry about it for a while, unless u use what i've mentioned above.

as for the GF2, it will only not be OK if u want to play the latest and greatest games.

 

[Mem]

It should last awhile ,the best way is to upgrade your graphics card now & then say once a year that way it will make your system faster & games are the most demanding software,I`ve a T-bird 900mhz & want to keep it for another 2 years before my next major upgrade so the only thing I`ve planned to upgrade is my graphics card between now & then.

 

[zippy]

<< i've heard that there is a law that some bloke in the 70s or 80s came up with that CPU speeds will double every 18 months. games are the ONLY thing (other than 3d apps) that are pusing pc technology forward at the rate it's currently going. almost everything (except the latest games and 3d apps) will run perfectly fine on a 1 gig cpu, heck, most will work fine on a Pentium 1!! i shouldn't worry about it for a while, unless u use what i've mentioned above.

as for the GF2, it will only not be OK if u want to play the latest and greatest games >>



LOL, that is Moore's Law- he is no average bloke. BTW, 3d apps/3d games are NOT pushing PC technology- competition is! Without AMD's Athlon we'd be at about a p3 800e or maybe a lil more right now,

BTW, do you mean the GF2 will not be okay if you want to play the latest and greatest games in 18 months? If so, then you are right, but if you mean now you are mistaken.

BTW, the CPU is NOT a bottleneck in 3D Games- you'll see that once you get to a certain resolution in games that it really makes very little difference which CPU you have (within reason- I don't mean a P 166 vs. a 1GHz Tbird ) but it really matters how much bandwidth your graphics card is and really how fast the card can process the data! Compression, such as S3TC, and less work to do, such as HSR and tile based rendering, always help the speed too!

 

[AudiPorsche]

im still using my voodoo3 PCI... ive had it for 15 months.

 

[Imported]

It had better last until I get to college, about another year and a half. By then, I'd have my own PC.

 

[damac]

I remember getting my p2400 system with the 100mhz bus when it just came out about around july 98. I kept the same system til 2 months ago but surprisingly with other good specs and ram in the system I could still play some games ok with a geforce card compared to my new computer with a tbird 1313mhz. For me just so it isn't a hastle I deck out my system at some point then leave it alone. I'll probably buy atleast 1 new video card a year and sell off the old one. So hopefully I'll keep my main cpu for atleast a year and a half but hell even a year is cool considering the prices I guess, and I think I can get away with a video card every other generation.

Im hoping the new nvidia card does something special and comes out soon and I'll buy that and be done for a year I bet. Im not happy with my cpu and current voodoo 5500 or radeon 64mb retail card when it comes to game performance.

 

[Shu8]

i hope it lasts me till the end of highschool for me [2 1/2 more years to go].

 

[Spook]

Hopefully until next year, and we can figure out what platform will be worth going to... Considering its either P4, Rambus combo, or Tbird, DDR Combo... I'm hoping in the next year some of these platform issues will be worked out, and Ram will be allot cheaper, becase at this point the Ram is a bigger investment than the CPU(At least with DDR or Rambus), and thats just wrong...

I'll be getting a CPU upgrade to 1Ghz sometime in the next few months, and that has to last until next year, after the .13u die shrink...

 

[A2KLAU]

Hope my stuff survives for some time! If not then I'm going to go into a corner and cry...

SKY.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

My P2400 has lasted me a bit over 2 years and I've finally got the itch to upgrade. I've been looking around all afternoon for a good site to buy from.

Can somebody recommend a reputable website to buy CPU's and MOBO's (cheaply as possible)?