Eventually. The nForce3 WILL kick ass, but there are just too many problems, especially with video cards. I don't want to pay money to be a lab rat...Xenophobe: The Nforce3 will kick ass eventually, new chipset's out soon and should be great. However, an A64 3200 even now owns your Pentium and my lowly Athlon
Wandrail said:Such small gains are made at a time usually these days with cpu power and speed
Well, figure, I upgraded from a Athlon 700 that I'd been using for over 2 years. That's equivalent to a P2 700. I think the leap to a P4 3.2 wasn't a bad one. Besides, the CPU wasn't all that expensive. I wanted the P4 3.2 Extreme, but that was +800. I didn't see a need for that, and I can just upgrade to that at a later time.Wandrail said:I think paying all that money for the brand new cpu is about as silly as buying a brand new car. The second you drive that $25,000 vehicle off the lot it deppriciates thousands in its market value, so why didn't you at least buy a barely used one? No excuse. Such small gains are made at a time usually these days with cpu power and speed that so long as you have a decently powerful system it will not benefit you to upgrade to the newest cpu in any fashion that will make the cost seem justified. I personally prefer AMD because the value/performance scales tip in their favor. Its why I went with the Athlon when putting this thing together last year, though I nearly went with a P4.
SculptedCold said:hehe, nowadays you just stick all the bits together and the stuff practically makes itself work!