and that's not too far off from the price I'm paying for all the rest of this stuff. (I'd get an nvidia 7900GT or possibly a 7950, that's why the range.) And since my current card works fine, and will work fine for at *least* another year, I don't want to replace it.
But when I do, I want to replace it with a PCIe card, which is why I'm looking at this motherboard.
And I'd rather do AM2 than Socket 939, because 939 is pretty much dead at this point. I wouldn't have to, I suppose, but since my current CPU is Socket A, I have to replace it in either case, and I might as well go with the newer interface.
As far as the money comment goes, yes, it is true that 6-9 months down the road, this stuff will be dirt-cheap and faster stuff will be the same price as this is now. However, that statement will also still be true in 6-9 months -- a year from now, even *faster* stuff will be at this price point. So really, that's not a great argument for waiting, unless I want to wait forever. :-P
Unless someone else comes out with a PCIe/AGP motherboard with a better chipset...
(Besides, the motherboard and AM2 adapter are the lowest-cost components of the whole thing. I can get 1G of this RAM for about $105, but that's more than half the price of the 2G, and the same speed, so there's no advantage except saving some money. (Especially since the 2G version has a $40 mail-in rebate.) Lowering the CPU would help a lot, if I went to a single-core, but I'd really rather not do that.)
So, thanks for the opinion, but I'm not sure I agree with it, given what I want to accomplish. Now maybe what I want to accomplish is dumb, that's always a possibility. ;-) |
