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I'm just curious. Nothing will be happening today or anything.
Would you guys spend ~$1000 to go from my current system (see sig for full details):
Dual Athlon MP 2800+
768MB PC 2100
Radeon 9700
to a system like this:
Athlon 64 3400+
1GB PC3500
Radeon X800SE
Now I know that most of you aren't dually loving people, but I'll be honest. Duallies are expensive. The Athlon MP platform appears to be the end of the affordable dually system. Opterons are staggeringly expensive. MPs don't go above 2800, except with some overclocking, which is painfully tedious (bridge mods).
What do I do with my system?
Well, I play games mostly. I do run Bryce 4, something that makes the duallies shine. I honestly almost never use Linux anymore, for whatever that may be worth. I'm also looking into World Builder, which takes advantage of SMP systems. I don't know that keeping my current system is an option. It would be expensive to get new drives and whatnot for it.
So what are your thoughts?
Would you guys spend ~$1000 to go from my current system (see sig for full details):
Dual Athlon MP 2800+
768MB PC 2100
Radeon 9700
to a system like this:
Athlon 64 3400+
1GB PC3500
Radeon X800SE
Now I know that most of you aren't dually loving people, but I'll be honest. Duallies are expensive. The Athlon MP platform appears to be the end of the affordable dually system. Opterons are staggeringly expensive. MPs don't go above 2800, except with some overclocking, which is painfully tedious (bridge mods).
What do I do with my system?
Well, I play games mostly. I do run Bryce 4, something that makes the duallies shine. I honestly almost never use Linux anymore, for whatever that may be worth. I'm also looking into World Builder, which takes advantage of SMP systems. I don't know that keeping my current system is an option. It would be expensive to get new drives and whatnot for it.
So what are your thoughts?