I think about upgrading soon, and then I think . . . "What the heck for?"

[XMan]

I've got a 2.4B/4G4A+ with 1GB of PC2100 and a Radeon 9700 . . . I've been kicking around, thinking about doing a 3.0C/875 setup, and I keep thinking, why not just wait?

I mean, am I really going to see that much difference? Shouldn't I just wait until Opteron and Prescott are mainstream to make a move? I'm not having problems running any software, and Half Life 2 should run fairly well on my setup in theory.

Thoughts?

 

[Ionizer86]

Fast proc, lotsa ram. No need to upgrade, tho you're probably kicking yourself if you got that 2.4b chip when it was around $700 😉

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
Fast proc, lotsa ram. No need to upgrade, tho you're probably kicking yourself if you got that 2.4b chip when it was around $700 😉

Nope. I got the chip and the motherboard at Fry's for $249, about 6 months ago. 😉

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: X-Man
I've got a 2.4B/4G4A+ with 1GB of PC2100 and a Radeon 9700 . . . I've been kicking around, thinking about doing a 3.0C/875 setup, and I keep thinking, why not just wait?

I mean, am I really going to see that much difference? Shouldn't I just wait until Opteron and Prescott are mainstream to make a move? I'm not having problems running any software, and Half Life 2 should run fairly well on my setup in theory.

Thoughts?

My sentiments as well. My 2.4b@3ghz 418DDR will be plenty till prescott is out and the best model for overclocking and best board for doing it have been established by the usual suspects 😉 DDR2 is still at least down the road- Q2 '04 or more so I won't wait for it.

 

[XMan]

How about an OS upgrade? If I've got Windows 2000 Pro, should I even bother with changing to XP?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: X-Man
How about an OS upgrade? If I've got Windows 2000 Pro, should I even bother with changing to XP?

No way! I just finally caved in and put W2K pro on my P4 box and with all the updates including SP4 it's great. So what if XP gives me a couple more frames a second? That's just my take on it but different strokes......

 

[Tab]

I've also been having the same thoughts about my system. I really wouldn't mind upgrading at all.

Soltek FRN75-L
512MB Crucial PC2700
Radeon 8500 64MB (Already dying, getting artifacts)
AMD XP 1700+
40GB WD

Too...

A7N8X Deluxe
AMD XP 2500+
Radeon 9600 Pro
Segate 80GB 7200 S-ATA

Now what would I be upgrading for exactly? Since Half-Life 2 delayed until Chirstmas and we will have the new Grahpics Cards coming out by then. I was also thinking about a Audigy 2 but then we have of course lovely PCI-Express which will eventually take over PCI. So why buy old technology? Yes, I do know PCI Cards are backwards compatable with PCI-Express slots. I guess I just have to wait a while until I upgrade again. 🙁

 

[gf4200isdabest]

Never EVER upgrade for something that hasn't come out yet. That's just plain stupid.

 

[mst]

The same here. I bought a PIV@2.4, 512 mb. DDR 333 (WinXP Pro) in January this year. I won't upgrade the configuration until the Prescott becomes mainstream. Everything runs just fine, until now I haven't even tried to overclock the system, although I know p4b@2.4 is perfect for that. Definitely, that's my decision too.