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The socket change?

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With my current system I hope this will last me all year and into 2005....maybe upgrade a vid card and ad some extra acc....but the base system will stay the same....mobo/cpu/ram(possibly add RAM)....but when will the new socket for Intel arrive cuz i wanna plan my attack of an upgrade in the future.

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I think Grantsdale will be the first chipset that will have the LGA socket, and that's supposed to be out around summer.
 
Ok i was just curious...I will probably just let that chipset work itself in and stay with springdale for about a year or so
 
Xbit reports that the Alderwood/Grantsdale LGA775 chipsets have been bumped up to the end of March.

The only shortcoming I see on your system is your video card, and that's only if you do a lot of medium resolution or higher gaming. If you could find a used Ti4600 for a hundred bucks or so that would definitely get you through to next summer.

I think waiting until then for a major system overhaul is a smart idea because there's a lot of new technology that is going to be landing between now and June, including DDR2 and the new video chips from ATI and nVidia on top of LGA775 Prescott's, but its going to be bleeding-edge expensive into this fall.

By next spring and early summer the pricing will have settled on the memory and motherboards, probably to about where DDR500 and 875P boards are now. At about this time Intel is scheduled to launch Tejas, which is going to be their second-generation 90mn proc. The Tejas should have the same level of refinement for the 90nm platform that the Northwood B did for the 130nm series. If the Prescott/Tejas is going to be a truely great chip, this is when we'll see it.






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