should i get an athlon 1.3GHz? Here's my setup. ALSO which MSI board is good?

[vizionblind]

I currently have:

P3 800EB
512 PC 133 SDRAM
VISIONTEK GEFORCE3
ABIT BX-133 RAID MB
IBM 46GB ATA 100 HD
IBM 20GB HD
SBLIVE PLATINUM
3COM NIC
CABLE MODEM
PELXTOR 8X4X32 CD/RW
RUNNING WINDOWS 2000
CABLE MODEM

 

[splice]

Your setup is pretty sweet... I would just wait until the nForce440 and Athlon4 are out... then upgrade.

 

[majewski9]

Good point splice! The upcoming Nforce and Athlon4 combo will be a killer performance setup. Even better then the Northwood P4!

 

[vizionblind]

Ok thanks guys

when are those 2 things due out?

 

[mchammer187]

looking at August/Sept Time frame at the latest early october but you should most likely be able to get one mid september

and dont count Northwood out yet

tho i am going Nforce / Palomino as my next upgrade primarily because northwood will be primarily competing against AMD's 2002 core the thoroughbred

 

[majewski9]

Some are saying 2 weeks before Palomino + Nforce! I really don't know about two weeks. I'm thinking that 1.5 Athlon will come out real soon and Nforce late september.

 

[majewski9]

Even if Northwood had better performance when you factored in price Palomino would be a better buy!