BTX mobos,PCI Express and Athlon 64bit

[Fat_Bob]

I was wondering if anyone knew something about these things..
Im pretty curious myself cuz ive gathered some money now and i dont want to do the same misstake as i did last time and buy stuff without knowing how far away the future is =)

 

[crabcakes66]

note to mods: since so many people keep asking this same set of questions.....make a sticky on the subject

 

[Asus]

Agreed

PCI Express
BTX Form Factor

AMD Roadmap Chart
AMD roadmap overview
AMD on Dual Cores

Near future
nForce 3 250 Athlon 64 revision

The only thing I would want to wait for is PCI express...oh and HL2.
DDR2 memory I could pass up and BTX is good but ATX will be supported for a while after.
Unless you are looking towards getting a "San Diego".
I like that name.

 

[PowerLlama]

time to read wtf btx is....

 

[Asus]

AMD Athlon 64 3400+/FX 53
Thermal properties.
Link
Link
And Intel's P4 w/SSE3 Technology (Prescott) is >100watts...
btw Athlon 64/Opteron with the onboard memory controller is ~80watts.
I guess we know where each company is heading.

 

[Brian Damage]

BTX is a very good idea. PCI Express looks... cute. I mean the 1X slots. Very compact.

EDIT: Y'know, once we develop room-temperature superconductors, all this heat dissipation and cooling jazz is gonna be a moot point. With SCs, all we'll have to worry about is levitating computers.

 

[Asus]

Here is a preview of Intel's Pentium 4 with SSE3 technology (Prescott) which will be released next year.
Not as big of a jump as Athlon XP to Athlon 64 in 32bit (wait for 64bit ).
Guess Intel's statment at IDF was true, "An equally clocked Prescott will not be as fast as Pentium 4 EE".

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Asus that post of urs is very informative.. hopefully one of the mods can sticky this thread.. or make another thread with those links in it and have it closed so no replies to it..

mods can always open it to update the thread right? hmm..

anyway thanks alot