ugh, what a terrible time to want a new PC

[broly8877]

AMD: A month away from a massive X2 price cut

Intel: A month away from a new CPU that destroys their old stuff. Possibly a long wait afterwards to actually get your hands on one.

The temporary solution?
d805: Two f'ing hot-ass Prescotts on a single CPU, a month away from a 20% price cut.

Waiting sucks

 

[LittleNemoNES]

he he just wait man. What's your current rig? You can buy any new HDD or video card and use it for now in the mean time.

 

[btpenterprises]

i havent bought a new PC in about 5-6 years i think, whenever Pentium 3's came out. Im sick of waiting too, when these Conroe's come out im buying them. I might go crazy on a PC and claim it on tax, hehe.

 

[hardwareking]

^_^Then u might as well get a core 2 extreme x6800 cpu and a r580+ gpu.
@broly-If ur current pc will let u live,stay with it for a while.(unless ofcourse u bought the pentium d)

 

[mithrandir2001]

There appears to be a long line of waiting buyers.

I agree, bad time for wanting. I basically need a new PC now as my current rig is close to giving up the ghost. I mean, cripes, I have an ABIT BM6 board (1998 manufacture date) with a 1.4GHz PowerLeap Tualitin and have had to fill up the PCI slots with silly crap like (a) ethernet card, (b) sound card, (c) USB card, (d) PATA controller card. New machines have all that stuff on-board.

We will FINALLY have a time when is "safe" to buy a new machine, with less of that "oh, but in a few months this tech will come out that's much better". Well, the future will always bring something better but you won't feel guilty buying a Conroe, though I must say I am tempted to buy one of those EE SFF CPUs from AMD, like the 35W TDP Athlon64. Cool 'n Quiet, mmm.