Wait to Upgrade...?

[necine]

Right now here's my system:

2800 Barton-M @ 2.4
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe
1 gig (512X2) Kingston
80 GB IBM IDE
160 GB Maxtor IDE
Nec (the one everyone around the forums says to get) 16X DVDRW
Lite-On DVD Drive
9800 Pro


How long do you think I should wait to upgrade? Is this system competitive with the newer A64 chipsets?

If I sold this system, how much do you think I could get?

 

[microAmp]

FYI price checks are allowed on this forum.

I plan on upgrading my video card, 9700 Pro, but waiting until summer when ATi and nVidia both have newer cards out and hopefully in stock when summer hits.

What do you do with your system?

 

[Oyeve]

I'd wait til all the newer sockets and expansion slots become more staandard and boards go down in price. I myself would love to upgrade my current system, but it works great and I don;t want to jump in the new stuff just yet. I'll wait a coupla mobo gens.

 

[mplutodh1]

I am with Oyeve, wait a bit... I upgraded this last summer and wish I had waited for the 64 bit to catch on like it has. Now I am buying things like SATA drives that are forward compatible... that was the one benefit of upgrading when I did, at least I got SATA on my board.

But yeah, depends on what you are doing with it but I would wait a few months for stuff to catch on.

 

[bocamojo]

You have a good system, so no need for an immediate upgrade, IMO. However, depending on your financial situation, you could easily put together a new system right now that would be a significant upgrade, in terms of performance, so the question is whether you want to shell out the money now and upgrade, or wait for all the new "technology" to come out before upgrading.

 

[necine]

I play counter-strike, as well as all of the current games that most people on this board play. I play online poker... 4 tables at once. I rip and store DVDs, as well as encode/burn DVDs and MP3s.

When I upgrade the system has to be powerful enough to handle playing 4 poker tables at once, and running my database software that helps me to calculate hand percentages, and odds and whatnot. Also it has to be a gaming system, and my upgrades (since it would only be mobo/proc/vid) would have to cost less then 500. Then I'll steadily phase out the HDs for SATA. At some point I'll get an audigy since I'm a bit of an audiophile. Basically it has to cover every base.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: necine
I play counter-strike, as well as all of the current games that most people on this board play. I play online poker... 4 tables at once. I rip and store DVDs, as well as encode/burn DVDs and MP3s.

When I upgrade the system has to be powerful enough to handle playing 4 poker tables at once, and running my database software that helps me to calculate hand percentages, and odds and whatnot. Also it has to be a gaming system, and my upgrades (since it would only be mobo/proc/vid) would have to cost less then 500. Then I'll steadily phase out the HDs for SATA. At some point I'll get an audigy since I'm a bit of an audiophile. Basically it has to cover every base.

Don't be too worried about going to SATA. Except for the raptor, SATA drives are basically PATA drives with a different cable, you're not going to notice any difference.

For $500 on CPU/mb/vid you could get an A64 3200+ 939, a decent motherboard, and a 6600gt. That would certainly be an upgrade from your current system, but I'd say your current one is still quite good.

If your current system is donig everything you want it to do fairly well, then wait a while until $500 gets you a bigger jump in performance.

 

[imported_Kensai]

I'd say to stay with what you've got for a while till better stuff comes out.