Now here is an option that a friend of mine took.
He just built a new computer and got one of the newest Abit motherboards. It'll run up to 1300Mhz on the FSB and is DDR2 compatabile. I think it has the X38 chipset.
He was thinking about going Quad but he wanted to wait on the 45nm CPU's that we are going to see in a little while. So what he did was to buy an e6700 C2D on sale for about $250.00 and now he's going to wait until the prices on the 45nm Quads drop some. So, maybe later this year or early next he'll upgrade to a quad.
Seems to be pretty smart to me. It'll give him a pretty long upgrade path with having to buy anything but CPU's and maybe video cards. And he'll get to see if a C2D is enough for his computing use without droping the bigger bucks on a quad. And since he doesn't OC he'll probably be able to sell his older processors and get some of his money back.
He just built a new computer and got one of the newest Abit motherboards. It'll run up to 1300Mhz on the FSB and is DDR2 compatabile. I think it has the X38 chipset.
He was thinking about going Quad but he wanted to wait on the 45nm CPU's that we are going to see in a little while. So what he did was to buy an e6700 C2D on sale for about $250.00 and now he's going to wait until the prices on the 45nm Quads drop some. So, maybe later this year or early next he'll upgrade to a quad.
Seems to be pretty smart to me. It'll give him a pretty long upgrade path with having to buy anything but CPU's and maybe video cards. And he'll get to see if a C2D is enough for his computing use without droping the bigger bucks on a quad. And since he doesn't OC he'll probably be able to sell his older processors and get some of his money back.