How much will hardware change in 3-4 months?

[roguerower]

I'm looking to build a mid-tower desktop this summer for college so that I've got something high powered rather than relying on my laptop. How much will the technology change in the next 3-4 months. I know I'll be using AMD and that they are coming out w/ the new M2 socket, but what about ATI and NVidia? Thanks for the help.

 

[Broly]

nvidia is due out for a huge chipset that will probably whoop ati into the next milennia
hold on

 

[Goi]

3-4 months isn't a long time. Newer stuff might come out, but that doesn't mean current gen stuff gets much slower.

 

[Twsmit]

On the AMD side of things, Socket M2, DDR2, next refresh of graphics cards, and of course new chipsets with the new M2 motherboards.

If your building a rig for school, wait until august or september (whenever you go to school) better chance of cheaper prices and better avalability than if you build an M2 system right when it launches. (though with a rumored delay, M2 might not be out until after you need to buy, but lets hope it comes out in early summer)

 

[fire400]

Intel trigate technology is approaching it's deadlines for release, expected for 2007 and later, new design of system cooling, innovative computer case designs, superior computing performance enhancements, and a breakthrough for multimotherboard architecture and much more... the next biggest thing to when PCI express was released!

3-4 months, probably not..

 

[roguerower]

Ok, thanks. Just wanted to make sure, because when I put together my last system, used intel s478 w/ agp, and then, i kid you not, about a week later they switched over to lga775 and pci express. Just trying not to repeat history

 

[JAG87]

Originally posted by: roguerower
Ok, thanks. Just wanted to make sure, because when I put together my last system, used intel s478 w/ agp, and then, i kid you not, about a week later they switched over to lga775 and pci express. Just trying not to repeat history

lol, that blows holy crap.