Upgrade now? Or 2009?

[GhandiInstinct]

It seems the industry is forcing us to buy Core i7 and DDR3. Expensive cpus, ram and motherboards. Even though DDR2 is at an all time low and quad cpus are very low as well, we who want long term value products such as ddr3 and core i7 are forced to dish out insane amounts of money.

The dilemma stems at what point do you upgrade? Now, save a lot of moeny get a great rig that will be outperformed in a year, or wait and save money on new technology?


DDR3 will be cheaper but latencies will still be terrible come spring.

What's the answer?



I have a P4 3.2 Northwood

2GB PC-3200

X1950PRO AGP

 

[ther00kie16]

i7 920 and 9550 are actually similarly priced. 3x1gb DDR3 prices are almost down to $100. So all that has to happen is for a cheaper board than the x58 to come out before most builders start going for Nehalem. That's exactly what I'm waiting for and I have a similar system to yours in terms of performance. Hopefully, I'll be able to build mine before next Christmas.

 

[GhandiInstinct]

gah,

so many good games to play until next December. this is torture.

 

[jae]

Originally posted by: GhandiInstinct
gah,

so many good games to play until next December. this is torture.

if your just looking for new hardware to play games.. just buy now. if u for some reason need a quad they will be cheaper by next year.

 

[RebateMonger]

I'm shocked at how much power the new processors will use. It's been SO nice having cool, quiet PCs again. I can barely hear my C2D boxes running. Looks like we are in for noisy fans and hot offices again....

 

[Denithor]

Originally posted by: GhandiInstinct
so many good games to play until next December. this is torture.

Just build a dual core system now (approx $300-400) and in a year or 18 months redo the innards Westmere when comes out and the power goes back down with the die shrink.

If you want specifics for parts check out the Attention System Builders thread stickied above.