Buy New Setup Now or....

[Ch!lledBudwei2er]

I have managed to save some money for a computer upgrade, and due to some shares falling my way I now have that money six months early.

I was going to wait for A64 x2 to fall down to a reasonable price before going down that route. But having seen what the new Venice cores are able to do for only a £100 chip it's now crossed my mind that I should possibly think about getting the new setup now, and then in six months or whatever look again at just purchasing a new CPU not the whole setup.

So on a £1500 budget would you buy now, or is there any new tech in mobos, gfx etc worth waiting that extra six months for?


Current setup is:

Shuttle SN85G4v2
Socket 754 A64 3000+ ( 130, Newcastle )
2 x 512mb OCZ PC3200
Leadtek 6800nu

Not looking at watercooling, but a silent(ish) overclocking system.

Most of the work I do on the computer is, Video Editing, Photography Editing, Gaming ( summer of BF2 ), DVD Encoding, and just d/l and surfing.

I was thinking possibly a 3000+ Venice with some high end overclocking RAM and the 2.8ghz arena

 

[keymaker]

hmmm....i think you should just save your money for the long run because your system is still pretty good. maybe you might wanna purchase a bit more ram for your encoding and video editing task and your good to go.

 

[KoolDrew]

I say stick with what you have for now.

 

[Dillusion]

If you do allot of encoding and crap the X2 would be great, but it looks like you do allot more work that an intel with HT would help out with. Not saying you need to jump up and go buy an intel, but it would be much faster than an A64 in youre encoding/decoding endevours. The Pentium D 840 isnt so bad you know, it rivals the X2 pretty much in every way (cept gaming, in which it still plays everything perfectly fine).

I would go with a 3.2 or 3.0ghz P4 6XX series to have 64-bit support for now, and the 630/640 chips do 4ghz out of the box pretty much if you wanna OC. And later you can always do dual core

Just a suggestion...