To build now or wait.

[moemac8]

I have a Athlon 1800 rig with 512 megs DDR 2700 and a Gforce ti4600 but have been thinking about upgrading due to the release of games such as Half-Life 2 and Doom 3. But I am not sure if I should wait till the Atlon 64s come out. I heard they are making a 64 bit version of the new Half-Life and would really like to see the benchmarks. I also want a direct x 9 video card and need figure I'll need a motherboard that has an 8x agp slot. God all these choices are killing me. Also I was wondering what the difference between the finale Athlon 64 and the Opterons will be. And thoughts comments, suggestions would be great.

Oh coarse I guess I could say screw it, buy and X-box and a Mac...just kidding

 

[pspada]

If you can survive until the Athlon 64 is available, the rig will probably last you longer - since we are coming to the tail end of the Athlon XP line. But if you can't wait the year or so, maybe just upping your CPU to a more powerful chip might get you by until then?

 

[chin311]

Get the Xbox, but no mac!! hehe, jk.

uhm, i'd def. say WAIT. your system is more than plenty for all current games...so wait till one of the games you want is actually OUT, and see what you need to do...wouldn't spend any money right now...

 

[Bonesdad]

Thot I read that HL2 was designed to run with DX7...anyone confirm?

 

[moemac8]

I can not confirm or deny that, but why the heck would they make a game with an API that is years out of date. All the programmable pixel shader tech is the hot new thang. If they made it with DX7 it would look like a game made years ago and LOSE them monry.

 

[Politik]

Halflife 2 is in september, I think... get a hold of yourself, man : )

I'm still on an Asus A7V (200fsb) w/ .8ghz tbird and 512 PC133. Oh, and a ti4200. and although I'll be buying new mobo, ram, and cpu in the next few months, I wont be buying a new video card for at least a year.

 

[bgeh]

appaerently it will run on a P3 700 and a TNT2