Your next CPU?

[HAND]

What CPU will you upgrade to? I'm want an Athlon 64!

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I'm not entirley sure yet. I definitly will wait a while though I'm quite happy with my Athlon XP 2500+ at the moment.

 

[Padma]

I just upgraded to an Athlon XP 2600+ last year, so I don't have any plans to upgrade again for a while.

 

[Speedo]

My comp will be 2 years old this june (XP2100+). I'll do some type of uprgrading this summer, but how much depends on the exact financial situation. My next processor will pretty definetly be a Athlon64 or Athlon64 FX (unless they've come out with something better before then, or 64bit flops).

 

[CruddyLeper]

Hmm... easiest for me to upgrade to an XP3200.

Who clicked the 64 bit options then? How you going to plug one in without upgrading your motherboard?

Hope you got a BIG hammer.

 

[Speedo]

Who clicked the 64 bit options then? How you going to plug one in without upgrading your motherboard?

When I say "CPU upgrade" I always have a new motherboard in there. I think upgrading is pointless if you're only going to gain a few hundred mhz. To get more than that will automatically mean a new motherboard except in rare cases.

 

[Jeratain]

I already did upgrade. P4 3.0 Ghz, 800 Mhz FSB, with Hyper Threading. Best processor I've ever used. Far better than the 3200 AMD I tried out.

 

[IglooDame]

Depends on what Civ4 runs best on, Civ3 is doing fine on my 1.7GHz Vaio...

 

[Achinz]

I'm one of the few who have no real need for the latest in speed. A current Duron will do me - my old one is only 800 Mz.

 

[Comraddict]

I just oredered P4 3.2GHz on intel motherboard. I'm big intel fan

If only intel was making chipsets and motherboards for AMD, that would be wonderful. I don't like VIA ( or nVIdiA) chipset, they are underpreformers compared to intel chipsets, and rich is issues.

 

[Archer 007]

My new system is going to be a P4.

 

[t92300]

a Athalon 64 or a C3 from VIA(dont ask why)

 

[Lifeblood]

The cheap one. And no Intel.

 

[funxus]

All I can remember at the moment is that it comes with a fujitsu computer and is 3GHz.

 

[Grisu]

I'm currently thinking about a Athlon64 but right now I have no money so I'll have to stick with my athlon 1ghz for now

 

[mardukes]

No reason to spend more than $50 on a processor. Fastest I own is Athlon 1.3G. Just grabbed an 850 Celeron off eBay to upgrade my mother's K6-2 AT.

TigerDirect has got a box & board combo from Soyo that supports up to 900mhz socket 370's for $30 after rebate. We're talking $100 computers after a stack of rebates.

That's value computing!

 

[ainwood]

Whatever is cheapest and compatable with the current MOBO!

I have two PCs - a athlon 1GHz, and an Athlon XP2000. I tend to leap-frog them. Might actually upgrade the Mobo in the 1GHz one, but its not a priority. My next purchase is a new HDD - when I upgraded my other PC from 450 MHz to the XP2000, I didn't get a HDD, and the current 8GB is a bit small.

 

[Kuningas]

AMD Athlon 64 FX, currently waiting for cheaper prices.

 

[GeZe]

G5 all the way! Apple rules!!!!!

 

[Arizona_Steve]

Athlon 64. I'm waiting for the 939-pin version to appear (March 29th apparently). I'm also waiting on R420 (ATI) or NV40 (nVidia) cards to appear.