Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: chusteczka
I meant from the perspective of someone currently not willing to pay the high price of anything larger than an AMD3500+ or a $100 video card, the prices of the more expensive components will decrease over the next two years. Thereby providing upgradeability.
Not so much upgradeability for what has not yet come out but upgradeability for those components currently deemed too expensive to purchase.
For example, for someone purchasing an AMD64 3000+, 3200+, or 3500+ now, they should be able to replace this with a dual core 4400+ X2 in two or three years at a reduced price.
I see the current AMD64 s939 as being useful for the next 5-6 years easily. Especially since I recently upgraded to an AMD64 3000+ s939 from a PIII 733MHz system that I put together in 2000.
Wow . . . you're a thrifty one, aren't ya? I guess if all you do in type and check email, then you'll be fine. For those who demand a little more from their systems, thats unacceptable.
A 100 video card is next to useless by today's standards, to say nothing of its usefullness in a few years. I don't consider a 400 dollar video card or CPU as being overly expensive, provided they deliver the performance they promise.
AMD is discontinuing those lower speed A64s, and eventually all single core A64s. In 3 years, they'll be very hard to come by. In 3 years, technology will have progressed quite a bit, making that 4400 X2 useless.
An A64 3000 is already useless for my purposes. In 5 or 6 years, s939, AM2, Socket F, and most likely AM3 will all be retired hardware and not in production.
Incidentally, try to purchase a s370 motherboard or CPU today, or a s423 motherboard or CPU today.
Yea i'm sure 3 year old northwoods at 3.2ghz are useless today