Which Processor Would You Buy?

[KvHagedorn]

This is just to get a general idea of what CPU your dream system (or the best practical equivalent) would feature if you were to build it within the next 4 months or so..

[High_Jumbllama]

My system will end up having an AthlonXP though with money I'd go for the Athlon 64. I never go for the premium priced chips. The FX is just too expensive for the performance it offers compared to the 64 even if it had the money.

[SpiralDragon]

i'ed go for a xeon... and will probably soon.... but i would rather wait for jayhawk/lindenhurst or what comes directly after them as a better bet when things will settle down somewhat interms of all the new technology that is being introduced... 64bitness, PCI-Ex, SATA, SAS, DDR-II, the new Rumbus tech. etc.. etc.. oh and especialy HDDs with 500GB+ capacities (hopfuly Solid state discks will be realy cheap by then )

[KvHagedorn]

Well, I voted for the FX, simply because I put the word "practical" up there. I would wait for the socket 939 version though.

If I had $10,000.00 (or even 6-7k)to dump into a computer, I would definitely go with the dual Opterons in that Tyan board..

[Marshmallowman]

Dual opteron for me, but there is still no suitable workstation boards available (for my tastes)

I think the upgrade path on a dual opteron board is going to be huge.

[The PIT]

If I had the dosh the FX after the next socket.

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Marshmallowman
Dual opteron for me, but there is still no suitable workstation boards available (for my tastes)

I think the upgrade path on a dual opteron board is going to be huge.

This one doesn't suit? It's the one I would get, even if there were others to compete with it. I've had a Tyan workstation board for 4 1/2 years now.. solid as a rock.

[Marshmallowman]

ooh, that is getting very close.

The PCI-X slots are a bit of overkill, but I could ceratinly find a use for normal PCI at 66mhz, but full PCI-X may be overkill for my needs.

Do you think the first crop of PCI-ex boards are going to be cheaper than PCI-X?

I will keep my eye on that board, when was it released?

[KvHagedorn]

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44567&highlight=tyan

[Admiral]

Hmm, I guess it would be a socket 939 Athlon 64 3400+ (512kb cache, dual channel), nForce 3 motherboard, NV45 (native PCI Express), 2x512 DDR PC4000 memory, 74GB WD Raptor or 160GB Seagate (SATA)...

[dbdg]

Have to be Intel chip for me.

Due to upgrade/build a new rig in the next four months so I'll let you know.

[UtwigMU]

For those considering FX: You can get single lowend 1XX Opteron, which is practically same CPU and overclock.


Otherwise, CPU choice totally depends on the purpouse and budget of the rig.

If I had unlimited funds, I'd get dual Opterons, however Thunder K8W is a bit on the big, while Tiger K8W on the small side (no 64-bit slots).

[lecter]

I'm waiting for the new Prescott socket and motherboards...my i845E+2.5 GHz P4 combo has worked wonderfully for nearly 2 years

[GNEP]

Waiting for some BTX-PCI-Express-AMD64-non-reg-RAM type system to land in my lap for as little as possible money (maybe with a new graphics card - see how the NV40/R420 battle opens things up over the next 6 months...) But to be quite honest a 3200+ speed Barton with Parhelia is good enough at the mo - the only upgrade I am thinking of in the next month or two is to move to a gig of PC3200 memory (from 512 of PC2700 at the moment)

[rylan]

I'd go with either an Athlon64 or an FX chip.
As an experiment I'd like to get a Prescott and see if I can cook food on the heatsink, and then laugh at the slower than P4 performance

I'm glad nobody picked the P4 Extremely Expensive Edition yet