I'm currently waiting to see what intel has to offer in the form of the various bearlake chipsets and maybe even how the desktop version of AMD's barcelona can do.
I have absolutely no interest in using Nvidia chipsets with intel processors.
Why? I plan to buy a rig that I can upgrade the CPU on 2 years after buying without having to replace the mobo, RAM and GFX card aswell![]()
So I'm waiting for DDR3 and something that supports FSB1333 officially and is made by intel or something thats AM3 based and represents better bang/buck.
I got bitten by getting an A64 3000+ within a couple of months of its release on Socekt754 on an AGP motherboard.
I would have upgraded the GFX card at some point last year and probably the processor aswell but there was no way I was scrapping the lot unless I was going to see a 2x-3x performance increase across the board for £500 or less.
I dont care that early DDR3 will probably be slower in real terms than fast DDR2. At least I can just buy another 2 GB in 18 months and be fine. If I feel like it later, I can upgrade the CPU to something thats lots faster, onloy paying for the CPU. If the GFX cars is no longer able to play modcern games at good settings, i'll replace that aswell.
Anyone else follow my line of thought?


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Quad core would be nice, but its not something I'd use and the premium is simply not worth it at all! Its like 64 bit! How many people out there use the 64 bit nature of there athlon 64 or the core 2 duo very few I bet!
