What are you waiting for, as far as upgrades?

[n0cmonkey]

Money. It's the only thing holding me back right now (that I don't have any, not complaining about prices 🙂)

 

[caz67]

new Nvidia and ATI cards.

The 10ghz Intel.. 5GHZ AMD..LOL

 

[caz67]

new Nvidia and ATI cards.

The 10ghz Intel.. 5GHZ AMD..LOL

 

[Perplx]

Im waiting for a legacy free system no printer port, com ports, pci, agp, isa or PATA, atx or 32 bit.

 

[jhu]

Im waiting for a legacy free system no printer port, com ports, pci, agp, isa or PATA, atx or 32 bit.

get yourself an itanium2 so that you'll also be free of x86

 

[Kadarin]

I'm waiting for 64bit apps to mature a bit, and for the hardware platforms to stabilize and mature. My current Athlon XP 1800+ system continues to chug along just fine for now.

 

[tweeve2002]

PCI express to come out and a RAID card for it...1TB of drive space 🙂 in RAID 0

 

[Elcs]

Personally, Im waiting for money.....

Gonna be waiting a loooooooonnnngggg time.

 

[nageov3t]

waiting for:

XP-64 (or Longhorn), at which point I'll upgrade to a 64-bit cpu
also waiting for the next gen of Radeon cards... I desperately want to upgrade my 9000, but don't want to put the money down on a 9800 with the next gen coming out "soon".

 

[Cypherdude1]

I'm waiting for a PC with no legacy connections at all including keyboard and mouse, just a wireless connection directly to my brain. 😕

Originally posted by: Perplx
Im waiting for a legacy free system no printer port, com ports, pci, agp, isa or PATA, atx or 32 bit.

 

[screw3d]

An affordable HDD that can actually keep up with the rest of the system.

 

[ROcHE]

I'm waiting for my 2500+ @ 3200+ to be slow enough to motivate an upgrade.

 

[bandana163]

I hope I'll win a high-end video card soon.
Otherwise, I'll have to wait until money accumulates.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Abos
I'm waiting for a video card that will do my laundry for me...

PS 5.0? We got nice stuff, it's getting more programmable, and voxels, what? Five years and I bet video cards will even complain about your socks getting too dirty and you leaving them on the floor all the time! 😀

 

[Sunner]

Socket 939
Socket T

Some mature mobos for those two platforms.

 

[xSauronx]

id like a new video card and a 21" crt

another half gig of ram would be nice, but id prefer video and a monitor before that

 

[apoppin]

My rig's "done" except for the video card . . . waiting for the reviews of the new GPUs from nvidia and ATI - then I will EITHER: 1) buy a Radeon 9800xxx for ~$150 OR 2) buy the 'latest and greatest' for $400.

I think my P4 @ 3.4ghz will have some longevity . . . and NEXT year the FINAL steppings of the Northwoods (I think intel will ultimately put out a 3.60c and maybe a 3.80c) will both be CHEAP and O/C very (very) well (to ~4.0Ghz I hope) for a cheap UPgrade.

 

[AIWGuru]

I have no inent to upgrade.
The next piece of hardware I buy will be a whole new system.
It will be 64 bit, legacy free, BTX, SATA, PCI-E, DX10 fanless GPU, Dual layer DVD burner
AND it will be at least twice as fast as the one I have now for the same money I paid for this one.

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: AIWGuru
I have no inent to upgrade.
The next piece of hardware I buy will be a whole new system.
It will be 64 bit, legacy free, BTX, SATA, PCI-E, DX10 fanless GPU, Dual layer DVD burner
AND it will be at least twice as fast as the one I have now for the same money I paid for this one.

Wow you might be waiting at least 18 months until DX10 GPU thats a long time to live without playing games like HL2 and Doom3 etc.

 

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation

Originally posted by: AIWGuru
I have no inent to upgrade.
The next piece of hardware I buy will be a whole new system.
It will be 64 bit, legacy free, BTX, SATA, PCI-E, DX10 fanless GPU, Dual layer DVD burner
AND it will be at least twice as fast as the one I have now for the same money I paid for this one.

Wow you might be waiting at least 18 months until DX10 GPU thats a long time to live without playing games like HL2 and Doom3 etc.

Nvidia scrapped their original NV40 and moved up one GPU level. Their GPU to be launched within a couple of weeks support PS3.0

 

[BFG10K]

I just picked up a Athlon 64 3200+ and I'm waiting for the R4xx/NV4xx cards from the GPU vendors.

 

[RussianSensation]

Yes but PS3.0 are in spec of DirectX9.0C and have nothing to do with DX10.

 

[Atlantean]

I am waiting till my computer won't run games at settings I like to upgrade... that means probably next year when the next wave of video cards hits.
Edit: Also I am kinda waiting for dx10 based cards...

 

[AIWGuru]

You seem to be brainwashed into thinking you need the greatest to run doom3, hl2. Of course, these games are programmed with low end cards in mind - otherwise they wouldn't have any sales.
If you take a look at anandtech's year old doom 3 benchmarks, you'll see that a FX5200 will play the game perfectly fine

 

[MichaelZ]

NV40.