Which Processor Would You Buy?

[agallag]

If I could find a good stable motherboard, I'd go for an A64. I like the stability of those i865/875 boards though. How are the A64 boards looking these days anyway?

My AthlonXP on Via chipset board was overall not a great purchase. Probably would've been much better if I went with a SIS or nForce, but alas, I didn't...

[Helevitia]

This is the longest I've held out upgrading. When I do it will be:

Socket939
AMD FX
PCIE
SATA HDD
SATA Dual Layer DVDRW
BTX(maybe)
DDR2(if the prices come down)
Hopefully SATA CDRWs are out

[borat]

right now, i would go for a mobile xp2500, i bought one but had to sell it as my motherboard could only acces low multipliers. The latest ones will OC to 2.5G without much effort, and cost less than $100, not bad for something that will easily give A64 a good run for its money. With that in mind i could'nt justify the exrta expense of currently useless 64bit instructions.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Athlon 64 non-FX on PGA939 w/512K Cache.

Having a 64bit desktop is a "cool" thing IMO, but most importantly hypertransport...

[bsdgeek]

Err, well if I sell the all the junk I have (Parhelia, Tiger MPX that I never used, various socket A boards & video cards) I might be able to afford a nice Athlon 64/#9 S3 Trio64v+ setup.

If I were to upgrade now, though I don't feel the need for it yet, I would go for Athlon XP/nForce2's low-cost yet still an upgrade over XP1800+/AMD760.

[Kurt]

Right now I'd go for a cheap A64 3000+ with a gig of quality DDR400. All ready for OCing...

I don't think there's another technology that's really worth it right now.

PCI-E, SATA and whatnot are not where they need to be yet...

[DentyCracker]

I 'll probably upgrade to a non FX A-64 4000+ on Socket 939 SiS chipset mobo around Xmas, will keep current rig as main working rig. Probably get an All-In-Wonder Radeon of some sort to go in the new rig (although I still pH33r ATi's drivers). I have a Dell Dimension P4 2.8GHz machine that just feels slower than my AthlonXP running at 2100 MHz. This sluggishness persists even after wiping and reinstalling winxp without Dell's crap, but including the Intel chipset drivers

[DentyCracker]

Actually I think the real reason it is sluggish is the lack of RAM, only a piddling 256 MB. Blasted tight CEO

[J1NG]

Buy processor? Upgrade? Again? Pffff!

J1NG

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[Ribbit]

Originally posted by bsdgeek
....the junk I have (....Tiger MPX that I never used....

You bastard.

And you too, J1NG.

[J1NG]

From the looks of things, if any of you are going for AMD 64 (+ variants; FX, Opteron etc) you're stuck with ATX/EATX till late 2005 at the earliest. Same with DDR2 unless it comes down in price real quick. PCI eXpress, sure that's not too far off. But the first two is unlikely to arrive till late next year. If then at all.

J1NG

[Chrono_Wanderer]

ya... agree with J1NG. Just look at CeBit... I have seen lots of BTX boards w/PGA755, PCI-E etc... but NONE for A64.

And where the hack is SiS... they have been awefully quiet...

[UtwigMU]

The MSI boards, the pics of which floated arround, were DDR2 i925 with PCI Express, yet still ATX.

[rylan]

I don't know why people would be excited about BTX, its a terrible layout, and DDR2 is a joke if it costs any more than low latency 400MHZ+ ddr.

[Wombat]

What's wrong with BTX?