Should I wait to upgrade my pc

[halve]

I picked out 2 motherboards that I would like to upgrade too. The ASUS A7V333 and MSI KT3 Ultra. Im leaning towards the KT3 ultra, I would like to put a athlon xp 1800 or alittle higher in it. Right now im running a duron 900mhz, the upgrade does not need to be done like right now, I could easily wait it out if I knew some new cpu or motherboard stuff is coming out. When does the new VIA KT400 chipset come out?

So I am curious, would you wait it out?

Thanks much

 

[erikiksaz]

What i've always done is to figure out whether i really need to upgrade before i splurge. If i'm just using the computer for games (which i am doing), and it's running the games i play perfectly fine, i won't upgrade until my computer can't handle the games anymore. So depending on what you use your computer for, you might want to wait. <--- imho

 

[thorin]

The only thing I'd wait for if I were you is a Thoroughbred if you can't get one. (And that only because of the temp difference).

There's always something you could wait for but spend as little money as you can on the upgrade and then you won't feel guilty doing it sooner..... ie: Right now I can buy a top of the line Athlon XP (2100 er whatever) for something like $310 CDN but a 1800 is only $155, so I could buy a 2100 and hope it lasts a few years or knowing that Barton and the K8 are coming out this fall I could just get a 1800 and then next summar/fall buy whatever is $155 at that time (Barton 3200 or whatever) and I still haven't gone over the $310 (and I've earned interest etc in the meantime). The same goes for the motherboard why would I spend money on a KT333 (etc...) when 333 RAM is way more expensive and no processor really needs the extra bandwidth ... go with a cheap ECS K7S5A. (Unless of course you're one of those people that has to play the "my johnson is bigger then yours" game).

Thorin