>It doesn't really matter... if you buy a BP6 and two C466 or C400@500,
>then socket 370 will be dead by the time you need another upgrade,
>the last couple of times I have upgraded, I've also had to buy a new
>Mobo,
>because the old one couldn't use the new CPU's...If you need an upgrade
>go for the BP6, and then in a year or to go for a dual K9 og P5...
Except it would be very nice to have an upgrade path in place without having
to drop an extra $150 on a new motherboard.. I know this price is some what
trivial, it just irritates me greatly that the socket 8 platform would be
around for a long time, and immediatly after I bought one, they bailed on it
and gave us the ppro in slot-1. Granted, I think I spent twice the price of
the BP6 on my Supermicro DNE, its just the thought of throwing money away.
At least socket 7 has given us a long life, and it seems like Slot-1 was
around, and will continue to be for some time. As you noted, the P3 and
whatever's next will be returning back to a socketed chip, however, like the
"slotket" I'm sure there'll be slot-1->PGAxxx adapters for a long time
coming.
Except, there probably won't be PGA370->PGAxxx adapters ever. And its even
more moot if this is the last generation of celeron to be SMP.
>> I guess if this is the case, I'll just buy a dual slot-1 motherboard and
go
>> that route.
>nope, wouldn't work either, because Intel is going socket 4xx something
>with the
>new P3's, so again you would be stuck with something from the
>past...sorry..
Except, as I said above, there'll almost certainly be an upgrade path for
the BX slot-1 through a generation or two of the next PGA chips, just like
there was for the celeron PGA.
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