Upgrading Soon, any suggestions?

[AirAlex]

Hi i'm upgrading soon from a duron 600 oc'ed to 1ghz with an Abit KT7e motherboard. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what I should upgrade to? Or should I upgrade at all and wait for the newer motherboards and cpu's to come out? Thanks.

 

[judgmentday1]

The Asus P4S533, 512 of PC2700 and the P4 1.6a @ 2.4Gz would be sweet.
Or the Soyo P4S645DX Dragon with tons of features

 

[HeSaidWhat]

For a second I thought that said upgrading son.

I would personally wait and see what the AMD Hammer processors can do.

 

[o1die]

The thoroughbred cpus will be out any day now. Check newegg's refurbished section for good prices on customer returns. They have some xp boards that should work fine with a bios upgrade priced from the mid $50's.

 

[Tarmax]

Ok, I've got a question.. I'm also thinking of upgrading my machine too. It's a Athlon 1.2GHz Tbird, on a Gigabyte 7DXR mobo, with 256MB of PC2100 ram... and a Creative Labs Annihilator 2 (GeForce2, of course ;P)..

Now, thinking Athlon here guys, what's the best proc when it comes to bang for your buck?? From what I've seen on Pricewatch, the XP 1900, but I want some other opinion(s). Not only that, but what about motherboards. In terms of chipsets, should I go with the SiS 745, or VIA's KT333??

I'm shootin for a $250 upgrade, with PC2700 RAM, and I want to know what u guys think.. Should I go for it, or save a lil more money and go for a graphics upgrade??

and as a side question... anyone have any ideas as to what the debut price range of the Thoroughbreds is going to be? They sound like a mildly interesting upgrade to the Palominos out there now, and I'm just curious..

or.. for the really patient -which isn't me, btw - should I wait 6 more months and upgrade to a ClawHammer (which I'm going to do eventually anyways)?

Thanks for all your help guys.. (yes, i know.. i'm being very optimistic that I'm even going to get a reply to this

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Hey, at least my first post here at AnandTech wasn't a TOTAL flop... ;D