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  • #1

    Poll: I want a new PC!

    Well I'm getting itchy to put together a new system. The problem I'm having now is that I'm getting tried of waiting for the new Palomino chip to come out from AMD. I'm looking at getting either a Abit KG-7 or an Asus A7V266 as my motherboard, though the Abit board is little bit more appeling since I want to do RAID with this PC...just to be cool! . So my poll is what you see above and help me decide what to do!


    Scott

    PS wanted to try out this poll thing for awhile now
    28
    get a 1.4GHz Thunderbird
    0%
    14
    Wait for a Palomino
    0%
    11
    Get the T-bird, then sell it on Ebay to pay for the Palomino
    0%
    3
    Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?
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  • #2
    I feel your pain

    I was hoping to get a Dual-Athlon setup so I could stop having to upgrade for a while

    but the boards only became available recently and are still pricey.....

    Get the T-Bird, Greebe can help ya tune it nice and you'll probably be happy for a while

    -Dil
    ----------------

    Current Main System
    P-3 550 Mhz 512K cache
    Soyo 6BA+ mainboard
    512 Megs Micron chip 133 SDRAM
    Matrox Millenium G450 32 DDR Dual Head
    AWE64 ISA sound
    Adaptec 2940UW SCSI
    Imation 4/4/20 CD-RW
    2X IDE drive trays swapping between Win98SE (4.3gig) and Win2K (3.8gig)
    Aopen 10/100 NIC
    Better to let one think you are a fool, than speak and prove it


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    • #3
      yeah - get the 1.4Gig and get 2Gig out of it!!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by SteveC
        yeah - get the 1.4Gig and get 2Gig out of it!!
        why so pessimistic SteveC?

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        • #5
          I´m starting to think in upgrading the cpu too, despite I´m preety satisfied with my tb900@1000.

          So it has to be a cheap upgrade. My plan is wait for a month for AMD to release its Palomino and see how birdy´s prices will drop - and they will for sure.

          I may be going Thunderbird, because with a A7V133 the Palomino doesn´t perform that better than TB. Palomino really shines with DDR, but that´s a diferent story.

          So my bet is to wait a little longer to see how things will be. And don´t forget that Palomino full compatibility (namely SSE suport and on die thermal diode) on most motherboards (even DDR) is still a big "maybe".

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          • #6
            Hmm I have my ancient P3-750 that used to be o/c to 825. Too bad it couldn't take it anymore and I had to take it back to 750 I'm still waiting for the dual Athlons

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            • #7
              So it has to be a cheap upgrade. My plan is wait for a month for AMD to release its Palomino and see how birdy´s prices will drop - and they will for sure
              I don't know what you mean, I NEVER drop my prices.
              1st system

              Athlon AXIA Y 1Ghz @ 1.40Ghz, coolermaster hsf, Elite K7s6a, 512 MB Crucial DDR RAM, 20GB IBM 7200RPM Hard drive, Radeon 8500le 64mb, SB Audigy, 3 com 10/100NIC, 300w PSU, midi tower, FPS 1600 Surround, Belinea 17" monitor, Intellimouse explorer USB

              System 2

              Athlon TB 1.4 @ 1.5, Zalman Flower in silent mode, Elite K7S6A, 768MB DDRAM, Ati Radeon 8500le 64mb ddr, SB Audigy, 3Com 10/100NIC, 80GB IBM 7200rpm, Liteon 16 speed DVD, Lite-on 24102b CDRW, Songcheer Superwide, USB scanner, Intellimouse explorer, Microsoft keyboard, 19in iiyama Monitor, FPS1600

              system 3
              Abit ST6 RAID, Celly 1.2 @1.4 ,512MB SDRAM, Zalman Flower HSF noisey mode, ATi Radeon 8500le, SBLIVE, 3com 10/100 NIC, 80GB Seagate barracude HDD, 40GB IBM120GXP, 60GB IBM60GXP,Extra highpoint controller card, 16x Pioneer DVD, Pioneer DVR-104 DVD-RW, ATX Full tower case. 300w psu, 17in LG monitor, 20in Samsumg telly, epson stylus colour 880, 200W RMS Surround sound amp with Mission M71 Speakers.
              .

              System 4
              Elite K7S5A, Duron 1.0, 128mb sdram, Coolermaster hsf, 80GB 120GXP IBM, Liteon 16x DVD, Radeon 7200 64MB DDR, SBLIVE.

              Linksys 4 port router/firewall

              512k Cable modem. nice

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              • #8
                bah, I'll stick with my 466 Celeron Which has been a jackass and wouldn't work when I overclocked


                I'm gonna wait for the next gen of chips before upgrading: upgrade to newest gen if I have money, upgrade to gen with good sized price drops if I don't have money.
                Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
                Motion Computing M1400 -- Tablet PC, Ubuntu Linux

                "if I said you had a beautiful body would you take your pants off and dance around a bit?" --Zapp Brannigan

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                • #9
                  I don't know what you mean, I NEVER drop my prices.
                  LOL

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