Time to update?

[Exedy]

Hi...first of all i know the games are evoluting fast and new fast processors are coming but if i build this system now....only i will need to upgrade is VGA right? At least when DDR-2 "die"...

X2 3800+ AM2 + Asus M2N32-SLi-DLX nForce 590 SLi

or

Opt 165 939 + DFI NF4 SLI Expert

im building a chiller ...so i pretend to keep the cpu 3.2ghz+ 24/7 :D if it possible...

with that, just a VGA upgrade ( dx10..etc ) is good?

AM2 or 939 for now? Conroe will not arrive so early here...so..i cant wait :banana:

thanks!


sorry bad english

[akijikan]

well if you're terribly concerned about the future, AM2 is the way to go

[Exedy]

Thats there i want to know....when DX10 games come will DDR + 939 survive? :D

[Theta]

Survive, or thrive? It will certainly not thrive... but it should have no problem existing as a fine platform.

DX10, I predict, will have more to do with internal bandwidth, and PCI-Ex bandwidth than DDR->CPU bandwidth.

The future of AMD as it stands now is AM2, but who knows what's down the road a bit? If you're sticking with AMD, keep what you have for now, revisit the upgrading bug in Q4 2006.

[naelq]

if what you have ATM, is what in your sig:


AMD Opteron 144 ( 9x325, 1.5v )
DFI NF3 Ultra-D
2x512mb G.Skill fx tccd ddr600 ( 2.5-3-3-6 1T)
then IMHO, just swap your RAM for 2GB, & get your rig a nice VGA card(s) :D
me too, i'm in the same situation like you, i'm gonna upgrade to 2GB of RAM & get some 7900GTX SLI'd ;) (until next spring/summer)

[Exedy]

lol i wrote update not upgrade :D