Check out these Athlon64 numbers and pics

[Chrono_Wanderer]

LOL@Admiral. haha.

Same sorta situation for me here.

My next upgrade will be my university entry, which should be next year's summer if everything goes well

[DentyCracker]

I might break with tradition and upgrade next Autumn, if prices are reasonable then

[dbdg]

Personally more interested in seeing real test scores.

Max, Lightwave, Cinema 4D and then maybe a bit of UT2k3, It will take quite a bit for me to go back to the dark side and use an athlon chip again. (bad experience with a KT7A and 1GHz Athlon)

[Wombat]

Originally posted by dbdg
It will take quite a bit for me to go back to the dark side and use an athlon chip again. (bad experience with a KT7A and 1GHz Athlon)

No, that was a bad experience because you bought Abit. It had nothing to do with AMD/VIA. Abit's Intel boards are shit, too.

[Technoid]

This is much better than I could have hoped for

Now I'll just have to get a Athlon64 clip to my waterblock

[GT98]

I'll be upgrading next summer when the prices come down

[thop]

but can you overclock it? at the moment i'm quite happy with my XP at 2240Mhz.

[Tjalfe]

Originally posted by thop
but can you overclock it? at the moment i'm quite happy with my XP at 2240Mhz.

did you read the posts linked above?
he had it running at 2400MHz up from the original 2GHz.. seems overclockable to me

[3dfx]

Looks like a very impressive chip tbh
That's is the main reason I have held out updating my 1600 XP

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by Wombat
No, that was a bad experience because you bought Abit. It had nothing to do with AMD/VIA. Abit's Intel boards are shit, too.

I was about to say the same thing.

[The PIT]

Yet amazingly Abit still get rave reviews. Hand picked boards????

[Wombat]

That's my bet.

[Technoid]

must be

[DentyCracker]

Hey I think occasionally a good one escapes their labs. I had one.

[Dr Mordrid]

My BH6 wasn't bad (or great) until the caps started exploding

I should actually thank ABIT since that incident drove me to try the ASUS P3B-F, which had to be one of the best 440BX boards ever made. I ended up building 6 more PIII systems based on it for the lab and two of 'em are still being used by my kids.

Dr. Mordrid