Should I buy now?

[Karama]

Okay, I am getting some money back from my Taxes. I would like to go ahead and build a brand new system. Right now I have a 3.2 P4 Prescott, ASUS P4C800-E Motherboard(which has been a stellar motherboard, by the way), ASUS ATI 9600 XT, Audigy 2 Platimum, 74GB Raptor, 120 Seagate, 1 GB of Ram ect.... That will become my second box for encoding video, audio work. I am going to go AMD for the next box, and I am looking at the dual-core X2 processors. But I know AMD is getting ready to release a new socket architecture with support for DDR2. So do you think going with the 939 architecture will be a safe bet for a few years. If I bought now, looking at the 4400 or the 4600 proc. I am really needing to upgrade my video but need to move to PCI Express. Not going to spend the money on another AGP card(for the box I currently have) when the real good cards are PCI Express. What does everybody think. Wait a little while or go balls out now and build a smacking box?

 

[discochan]

I suppose if you can wait then wait for the new stuff to come out. However theres always new stuff coming out these days and its hard to stay on top.

 

[Karama]

That is true, you can play that waiting game forever, but do you think that the 939 architecture will be safe for a couple of years or if I go now, I am screwed because AMD will stop making procs for 939. Also, I wonder how good DDR2 is going to be with AMD because lets face it, it has not been a screaming success with Intel.