POLL: Are you going to kick your old system to the curb when Conroe ships?

[pkme2]

Conroe will help me buy an 4800+ cheaply, this is my hope.

 

[Canterwood]

I see absolutely no reason to throw out my AMD Opty 170 rig for at least another year.

Its plenty fast fast for what I need, and I just can't justify having to buy a whole new rig for a few fps more with Codsroe.

I'll see what the market has to offer this time next year, and then decide who gets my cash.

 

[lifeblood]

More cost effective to upgrade my 3000+ to an X2.

 

[compgeek89]

It depends if there is a good OCing SLI board available.

 

[the Chase]

Nah- Intel will be switching to DDR3 too soon now to justify spending money on DDR2.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: the Chase
Nah- Intel will be switching to DDR3 to soon now to justify spending money on DDR2.

Expound, please.

 

[compgeek89]

pff, you cant even buy DDR3 for a desktop. ANd theres no news on it. DDR2 is only just now starting to take off. Hes just joking or clueless.

 

[the Chase]

Well, just speculation on my part. But AMD is stating in roadmaps (in AT article) that they will be ready for DDR3 by mid 2008. They just switched to DDR2. Intel has been running DDR2 for 2-3 years now? So Intel controls the memory choice and AMD has to react after the fact. Also Intel can switch fast as all they have to do is to puke out a new chipset, which they do pretty regularly. Combine that with Geil showing off some DDR3 samples at Computex this coming week and the fact Intel setups will react better to DDR3 than AMD systems and you can bet Intel will start to push for DDR3 fairly soon. My guess is we will start to hear rumblings about it in 4-5 months and Intel to begin using it in late January 2007. (After everyone bought Conroe with DDR2 for Christmas).

 

[the Chase]

Originally posted by: compgeek89
pff, you cant even buy DDR3 for a desktop. ANd theres no news on it. DDR2 is only just now starting to take off. Hes just joking or clueless.

Hah- probably the latter of those two.

Edit- but I WAS right about the quad core/AT article speculation thing.(sort of)

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1866018&enterthread=y - 5th post down. May 24th

 

[VooDooAddict]

Mid August I'm hoppping to be running a dual core rig.

It will depend on 2 things:

1) The availablility/price of barebone SFF systems. (for Conroe or AM2 X2)
2) Price/Performance of the AM2 X2 line at the time.

Also hoping there's more info on NVidia's SLI Physics assistance at that time... could be the one thing that gets me to go back to a larger form factor machine.

 

[Smartazz]

Considering I'm about to get an opteron 165 and I have no need for that much power, no I won't be kicking my system to the curb.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Smartazz
Considering I'm about to get an opteron 165 and I have no need for that much power, no I won't be kicking my system to the curb.

Interesting. I didnt think people where still buying last gen tech. I almost did that.

 

[TekDemon]

Yep I'm kicking it to the curb. Although technically it's not quite like I'm going back to Intel from AMD exactly...

I'm running a 2.4Ghz Northwood right now, although I also own an Athlon 64 3400+ system (S754). But the A64 is being used by my family and isn't really as nice a PC in other ways (pretty much only the CPU is any better).

And my 2.4Ghz Northwood is basically on its last legs due to some really messed up capacitors on the mobo amongst other things. It's only still running because I did a hacked up soldering job (without a solder pump/vacuum mind you) where I replaced a few capacitors.

But I think once Core2 is here...my old 2.4Ghz northwood will finally get to retire.
And I'll finally have a good PC again haha...

Although I'm also thinking about resurrecting my old Athlon XP system...LIVE AGAIN!!!

 

[compgeek89]

I kicked it to the curb before it shipped, because i ordered mine before it shipped

sig-rig is for sale. E6600 ES on the way to me.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

I will most certainly not get rid of my current system. Gonna sell my other PC: AMD64 @ 2.7, 7900GT, 1GB Corsair ram. Hoping to spend about 550 on my conroe machine.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: compgeek89
I kicked it to the curb before it shipped, because i ordered mine before it shipped

sig-rig is for sale. E6600 ES on the way to me.

Good man. BTW does ES stand for engineering sample?

 

[compgeek89]

Yes, yes it does

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: compgeek89
Yes, yes it does

I want one!

 

[compgeek89]

LOL, here, for only $720 you can get one from FreeCableGuy @ Xtremesystems.

 

[evenmore1]

no way! I'm too cheap to throw out PCs!

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: compgeek89
I kicked it to the curb before it shipped, because i ordered mine before it shipped

sig-rig is for sale. E6600 ES on the way to me.

You bastard!!! Very SWEEEEEET!!!!!

 

[compgeek89]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: compgeek89
I kicked it to the curb before it shipped, because i ordered mine before it shipped

sig-rig is for sale. E6600 ES on the way to me.

You bastard!!! Very SWEEEEEET!!!!!

Lol, I know, I had do dip into my savings until my current stuff sells :Q

 

[eelw]

Nah. My 3.4GHz Northwood and Shuttle XPC SB61G2R will sit along side with my E6600 and Shuttle XPC SD37P2.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: eelw
Nah. My 3.4GHz Northwood and Shuttle XPC SB61G2R will sit along side with my E6600 and Shuttle XPC SD37P2.

You know Im almost thinking Ill do the same: keep both systems.

Im using XP but I have win98se ghosted to reload at any time because I have older games that absolutely refuse to work in xp and Ive tried every emulator known to man.

 

[hardwareking]

no i'll hang onto my pentium d 930.I'll get rid of gigabyte 945p and get an ASUS P5W DH which supports conroe and is based of intel 975x chipset.
Maybe i'll upgrade next year,when conroe will go down in price.