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My summer upgrade

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BlvdKing

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It's that time of the year again - Newegg gets a large chunk of my hard earned $$$.

Last year I went budget with a trusty Barton 2500+, Gigabyte KT600, and 512 MB PC3200. This year I wanted something more top of the line.

Here's my final rig for this year's upgrade:

A64 3400+ (socket 754)
ABIT KV8 Pro
1 GB PC3200
XFX 5900 XT (475/850)
160 GB WD with 8MB cache


The order has been placed and I'll let everyone know how it turns out next week!
 
I got Mushkin PC3200 CAS 2.5. I have heard that the prices of socket 939 chips and motherboards won't merit the Sky high prices. I am also the type of person that upgrades chip and motherboard at the same time, always have and will. Longevity of socket 754 doesn't bother me. I also wanted a processor with the 1 MB of cache - that helps relieve some of the bottleneck of single channel memory.

From early benchmarks, it looks like s754 3400+ is very close in performance to the s939 3500+, but the 3500+ will be more expensive.

I also got tired of waiting. 😀
 
I agree that waiting for 949 is pointless. After 939, there will be PCI Express, then DDR2, then BTX, then... By the time a new much faster, resonably priced CPUs are out, motherboard would need to be upgraded as well.
 
Originally posted by: hifisoftware
I agree that waiting for 949 is pointless. After 939, there will be PCI Express, then DDR2, then BTX, then... By the time a new much faster, resonably priced CPUs are out, motherboard would need to be upgraded as well.
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Yeah, but all those other technologies are well in the future, 939 is just days away.
 
Yeah, given the prices of the 939 3500, I think the 3400 is a better choice right now.

Maybe things will be different in 6 months.

-D'oh!
 
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