Originally posted by: GhandiInstinct
Fair enough Nemesis I guess we will all have different needs and wants. I myself am looking to upgrade from my old P4 and bad AGP video card. Now even if I buy a P35 board I can still get one that supports Penryn. I'm trying to justify buying an x38 board but as it stands now I'm hearing very little performace increase and very expensive.
From what I've read on these boards, there are alot of people with P4 AGPs looking to upgrade this holiday season.
Unfortunately, with PCI-E 2.0, SSE4, SSD hard drives, and a bunch of other new hardware tech goodies, it's difficult to find the right time and product to upgrade at this moment in time.
Why would anyone release X38 with only DDR3 support when the majority have DDR2 and DDR2 out performs and is a helluva lot cheaper than DDR3.
Add to all this mess, the new G92 graphics cards from Nvidia with DirectX10.1 support. While 8800GTX's now still cost near $600.
It's so confusing.
I wish someone had answers for us.
Because I'm not going to get a potential X38 with DDR2 and then throw away the CPU when it's time to get penryn and then throw out X38 when Neh comes out.
Pffffft!!!! Help.