smids said:
@ OzyOly: Seeing as you have only bought the motherboard, might I suggest you stop right there. Everything else will still be fine but I would personally open another account and save money. This way, in August you can buy the latest bits, i.e. Intel Conroe perhaps (beats an FX60 from early tests) and will be as cheap as any P-D say from now and most likely a lot cheaper than that 4800+ as well as using DDR2 RAM. It looks like an amazing processor - and then you could perhaps buy a G80 graphics card which will be Vista ready or something. It's best not to stagger the buying as you will end up with a system which is not as good value-wise as if you bought in one lump sum. Also, warranty wise, if anything doesn't work, you won't know until a few months down the line and this causes hassle (after 6 months) in terms of warranties.
Well, I really didn't want to save up then buy the system. I wouldn't be able to save and not have any return for another 5 months.
I know of AM2 platform with DDR2 but haven't heard of the intel Conroe, I haven't used intel since pentiumII apart from the pentium M in my laptop.
I understand I should wait to build my system to get new tech but really even if I did buy my system in one go, after a few months it would be out of date anyway.
Computers are progressing so fast that it would cost a fortune to keep up. I'm just going to buy what I can afford, part by part until it's finished. I'm not to fussed about saving a few £100 here and there because it gives me something to look forward to every month.
I've decided this month I'll buy my raptor and serge protector, next month my graphics card, the month after my ram and 2 months after that my processor.
Sure my PC won't be the best when it's finished but all I need it for really is to play the odd pc game and to load windows with reasonable speed.
I would like it to run windows vista but if it doesn't it's not really a problem. I will probably build another in 3 years time anyway.
Thanks for the advice though, there is logic to it but I really just couldn't save up fro that long and anyway my motherboard is a socket 939, I would have to replace that and if I go for intel conroe I would probaby have to change my PSU to cope with new power requirements etc.
Thanks anyway mate.
