So I ordered a new PC :D

[yblocgerg]

Well it's the 4th of July and it was time:

4400+ X2
NF4 UT SLI-DR
BFG 7800GTX
Seasonic S600
2x512 TwinMOS SP
74GB Raptor
Black Coolermaster Praetorian

Comming from a non-ht enabled 2.4@2.8
IT-7 MaxII
512ram
9700Pro
M-Audio Delta410(going into new rig)
(various storage drives I may put in my new rig)
Seagate x15 1500krpm(18GB, This will be for sale when new stuff arrives because it is too small and I want my new rig to be quiet, please PM me if interested, I have an adaptec 19160 controller for it too)

....I think it should be a small upgrade

 

[Alex A.]

The longer you wait for a full upgrade the sweeter it is when you build a new rig.

Let's just say you won't be disappointed

 

[yblocgerg]

Anyone have an idea when monarch will have 4400+ in stock though. They show ETA for the retail boxes as 7/6, but I ordered an OEM cpu since it was 140 dollars cheaper than another big retailers price.

 

[zandor]

The longer you wait for a full upgrade the sweeter it is when you build a new rig.

That's definately true... I once went from a P200MMX 160MB ram to a dual P3 1.0 w/ 512, and added a shiny new 18GB 10,000 rpm SCSI at the same time. I basically changed everything but the monitor and CD drives in that upgrade (had a nice 40x SCSI reader and 8/20 SCSI writer- both 1.5yo Plextors), though I did move over most of my hard drives.

My last upgrade was one I'd rather not have done just yet. Something killed my Athlon MP mobo and my Antec True550 PSU. The PSU-MOBO connector somehow got burned. The Opteron 246s are faster than a pair of AMP 2600+ chips sure, but the only thing that annoyed me about that setup was that it died for no obvious reason.