On Wednesday 25 January 2006 02:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:28:41PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: > > Actually, you should hold off until after June before buying > > any AMD64 CPU. AMD will be releasing a new socket style and > > the current Socket 939 and 754 chips should drop in prices, not > > sure about the Opterons (Socket 940). > > Actually, you should probably hold off buying *any* piece of > computing equipment until you can't do without it, as prices keep > going down. Rare is the day I pay the price they quoted me at my > local computer store, because the price goes down too fast. > > -- hendrik
Like everything else its a judgement call, you can have your cake today, enjoy it for a lot longer. I came over this problem about a week ago, I was going to just get a socket 754 sempron chip, and use it later down the road in a pvr. Almost everything was the same except the cost of the chip, the chip I really needed was over the two hundred dollar mark. As Myth TV likes it cpu power, if your working in 1080p. Sure I could of got something less but then I have heard of people running into problems on 3200, 3400 Athlon 64's. So I really needed a 3700 or better chip. In the end I ended up going for a Opteron 165, and as stated in another thread it only cost me about 60 dollars more than a single core 3700. So for that price it was a good investment, as I know that demand will keep the dual cores prices up for a while until the next big thing. Gnu_Raiz Also whats with all the top posting, it seem's that every other thread has a bunch of top posters? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]