Re: Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.

From: Nathan McNulty (525676_at_betaweb.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:58:44 -0700

I would highly suggest waiting until PCI Express has made a little more
ground and support as well as DDR2. Waiting even six months will help a
ton as most of the next generation products are being released around Q4
2004. What you want to keep your eyes open for is Dual Core CPU's from
both Intel and AMD (AMD will be sooner than Intel) and you will want to
make sure you end up with a PCI Express based motherboard. The reason
is you will have more bandwidth on the PCI Bus, less electricity
required, less heat as a result, and a more stable platform. As for
64bit processing. Intel's next Dual Core Processor is supposed to have a
64bit varient that will compete with the AMD 64. This is all going to
be similar to the DVD-R vs. DVD+R as AMD already has a designed 64bit
platform (different than IA64) and Intel either has to conform to AMD's
platform or create their own. We'll have to wait and see if they both
end up designing these new dual core CPU's with the same platform (the
architectures/cores can still be different). All of this is going to
happen fairly soon and will be somewhat expensive when it is released as
is most new technology, but come after Christmas season, prices will
most likely start falling :)

Nathan McNulty

Bob Day wrote:
> "Billy" <Billy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:76008452-9E1E-4A20-963F-97F594F3C2FA@microsoft.com...
>
>>My advice would be to wait another sixty days or so. Right now the industry is
>
> in flux. The new 775 T chips are shipping and the prices are still high. There
> are only a few motherboards available that support the new chip sockets and they
> are expensive. There are several graphic cards available using the new PCI
> express standard but they are high. Also, memory is going to DDR2 and is almost
> impossible to find. Prices will drop in a few months and availablity will
> increase. Why build with obsolete stuff?
>
> Yes. A computer you build now will not likely be very
> upgradeable in the future. There are a whole lot of new technologies
> in flux right now (is BTX dead or alive??). If the OP can afford to
> wait, he might consider waiting a while. I'm waiting till next year.
>
> -- Bob Day
>

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