Best time to upgrade?

PureAppleJuice · 26 Aug 2007 at 12:31

So when IS the best time to upgrade this year? I've heard about the new size CPUs and of course DDR3, when will that begin to fall in price? I'm just stuck between possibly upgrading now, or just holding out until christmas for example.

allllec · 26 Aug 2007 at 12:36

No such thing mate, every time you build a rig there is something new and shiny around the corner, unless you build it as soon as its released, then you might be 6-12months away from the next big release. but of course you'll be paying heavily inflated prices.

there's no winning tbh

PureAppleJuice · 26 Aug 2007 at 12:39

Annoying eh? Last time I upgraded from an old 754 I think it was to 939, a week later AM2 came out... Doh. The pace of technology really is infuritating; looks like i'll just upgrade next month or something I suppose

allllec · 26 Aug 2007 at 12:43

jidh007 said:
Annoying eh? Last time I upgraded from an old 754 I think it was to 939, a week later AM2 came out... Doh. The pace of technology really is infuritating; looks like i'll just upgrade next month or something I suppose

Yeah its a pain, i mean atm you could wait until November thats not too far away.. a few new bits coming out then. X38 and the new nvidia cards.. however i doubt DDR3 will be at a reasonable price by then so im not sure ddr3 is feasible

at the end of the day you get what you pay for, spend £1000 now, spend £1000 in a month, sure you might get slightly better performance, but still not a lot more imo

i mean i got my AM2 rig here.. a lot of people **** me off for not going core 2, but for the price i paid theres not a whole lot of difference, and if i had waited i would have been without a computer for ages and well that just defies the point!

semi-pro waster · 26 Aug 2007 at 13:17

jidh007 said:
Annoying eh? Last time I upgraded from an old 754 I think it was to 939, a week later AM2 came out... Doh. The pace of technology really is infuritating; looks like i'll just upgrade next month or something I suppose

Remind me not to ask you to predict my lottery numbers.

I don't think there is any new technologies on the horizon that will be implemented soon and make a huge difference to what you should be going for. It might depend slightly on what your budget is but DDR3 isn't really necessary yet since DDR2 still has quite a bit of life/potential in it currently and the current Core2Duos overclock well.

willhub · 26 Aug 2007 at 13:22

semi-pro waster said:
Remind me not to ask you to predict my lottery numbers.

I don't think there is any new technologies on the horizon that will be implemented soon and make a huge difference to what you should be going for. It might depend slightly on what your budget is but DDR3 isn't really necessary yet since DDR2 still has quite a bit of life/potential in it currently and the current Core2Duos overclock well.

Is current DDR3 not slower than current DDR2 due to it's very high timings?

There Gigabyte DS3R mobo seems very good, supports DDR2/3 and the new 45nm CPU's that are on there way, has good future potential.

semi-pro waster · 26 Aug 2007 at 13:26

willhub said:
Is current DDR3 not slower than current DDR2 due to it's very high timings?

Not entirely sure, I don't know enough about Ram to comment properly other than agreeing the timings are extremely high.

bowza · 26 Aug 2007 at 16:38

will the new nvidea cards be pcie2 and not compatible with current mother boards ?

Bowza

PureAppleJuice · 26 Aug 2007 at 16:47

I was wondering the same, when is PCI-E2 on it's way in?

willhub · 26 Aug 2007 at 16:52

PCI-E 2.0 cards will work on current mobo's, I think there aint much difference, currently the PCI-E clock is 100Mhz and PCI-E2.0 runs at 175Mhz or something like that, I dunno, more bandwidth it has too, I guess the PCI-E 2.0 cards will be slightly slower on mobo's that only support PCI-E.

bowza · 26 Aug 2007 at 17:41

hope thats right

as a bleeding edge motherboard and GPU card would clear out the bank just before xmas and the kids may end up with nothing from Ah erm Santa.

Bowza

Kanifee · 26 Aug 2007 at 18:21

bowza said:
hope thats right

as a bleeding edge motherboard and GPU card would clear out the bank just before xmas and the kids may end up with nothing from Ah erm Santa.

Bowza

not such a bad thing is it???? lol! allways leave them wanting more even if that means them wanting anything atal

zarquon · 26 Aug 2007 at 21:22

jidh007 said:
So when IS the best time to upgrade this year? I've heard about the new size CPUs and of course DDR3, when will that begin to fall in price? I'm just stuck between possibly upgrading now, or just holding out until christmas for example.

Best time to upgrade is when you have to, not a moment before.