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Circuitbreaker8

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Ok, heres my plan...help me decide WHAT i should do. My current system is in my sig btw. Anyways, i wanna get an A64 3200 ( 939 ) and an Abit AV8 motherboard for my birthday money. I figure I can sell my 2.6C and Abit AI7 and my 4x256mb pc4000 chips and get some nice low latency mushkin 3200 ram ( 1gb ). OR I can save up my birthday money and sell my 9800p and get a 6800GT. OR ( lol ) I can save up all of my money and get a nice 19" NEC 930SB. Right now I have some shitty 17" compaq that does 1280x1024@60hz lol....If I decide to get the A64 3200, AV8, and Ram, I still have 200$ to get this samsung 19" from bestbuy for exactly 200+ tax.
 
Correct me if I am wrong, but the A64 3200 does not come in a 939 pin flavor, only 754.

Which is good because you get the 1MB LVL 2 cache as opposed to the 512KB on the 939.
 
One thing though is consider getting a good monitor at the least, since its no point paying 1k plus on stuff, if you cant even see it correctly :)
 
I think this is what im gonna do...

Sell my 9800p for 200$, then use that money+a best buy giftcard I have ( 200$ for moving into a new place ) and get a 6800gt. Then I can use my bday money and get a new moniter. I dont think going from a 3.26ghz intel to a A64 3200 would be that big of a jump...? In the benchmarks I saw, the A64 3500's were only 5-10fps above the 3.4C...?
 
Thats a pretty good plan.
Remember, though, that if you buy the Athlon64 you will be set up well for the future - 64bit operating systems and programs, while the P4 is still 32-bit. Keep that in mind.
 
4keatimj said:
Thats a pretty good plan.
Remember, though, that if you buy the Athlon64 you will be set up well for the future - 64bit operating systems and programs, while the P4 is still 32-bit. Keep that in mind.
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That is still pretty far down the road, and by then most of us will have upgraded again
 
4keatimj said:
Thats a pretty good plan.
Remember, though, that if you buy the Athlon64 you will be set up well for the future - 64bit operating systems and programs, while the P4 is still 32-bit. Keep that in mind.
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Well by the time anything fully supports 64 bit cpu's, the current A64's wont be that hot. I might just keep my 3.2 intel for a while longer...
 
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