CPU upgrade time

When will you upgrade your cpu?

  • 0-1 years

    Votes: 12 40.0%

  • 1-2 years

    Votes: 12 40.0%

  • 3-4 years

    Votes: 4 13.3%

  • 5+ years

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • never

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Total voters
    30
Wha? o__O
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Oh ha, I didn't see the poll at first. it must have been hiding. >.>;;

Depending on whether I blow all my money on my car I might not upgrade my PIII until mid 2007.
 
lol umm 3-4years is way to long, but it mostly depends on the proccesor and what speed you want
 
Well, i just bought a new E6600 a couple of days back so Im counting atleast 3 years so i can get past Uni without getting a new compy.
 
1 to 2 years. I have an AMD 3500+ atm. Planning on upgrading mid next year. I'll switch to Vista while I am at it (and get a DX10 card if they're out by then).
 
Are you asking how often I upgrade my CPU on average or when I will upgrade my CPU next?
 
I generally wait ~2 years before upgrading my CPU which just happends to be coming up soon.
 
I will be upgrading mine once the price on 64-bit processors have settled. (When?)
 
I'm hoping to get a conroe or possibly a high end athlon soon.
 
I'm still running on an AMD Athlon XP 2000+. I'd definately say that this now is the time to start planning my new system. nVidia's cards will be out soon too!
 
E6600 in about 5 months. Hopefully along with a nice DX10 card, otherwise a 7900gt.
 
Prob in the next few months. Once the X2 prices have dropped at the end of this month i will be looking at getting hold of a X2 4600+.

I usually upgrade every couple of years, however this time is slightly earlier as i originally bought the 3800+ as a stop gap until the X2 prices fell.
 
upgrade time!

Upgrading in the next couple weeks (at AMD price cuts) to the system listed in my sig. I hope ASUS comes out with an R.O.G. series board with an ATI chipset... and soon. I'm going all out with this baby - at least as all out as I can get with $1800.

back to college soon, and ready for a new CPU.
 
I'm going to go for a full upgrade/new system when DX10 cards and quad-core processors are around. So mid to late next year.
 
NetGuru42 said:
Upgrading in the next couple weeks (at AMD price cuts) to the system listed in my sig. I hope ASUS comes out with an R.O.G. series board with an ATI chipset... and soon. I'm going all out with this baby - at least as all out as I can get with $1800.

back to college soon, and ready for a new CPU.
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Yeah I'm seriously looking at boards with ATI's chipset (Xpress 3200). I'm leaning toward the Abit S939 board myself. What are all the features on the Asus R.O.G. series? Probably more expensive I'd guess.
 
Asus said:
Yeah I'm seriously looking at boards with ATI's chipset (Xpress 3200). I'm leaning toward the Abit S939 board myself. What are all the features on the Asus R.O.G. series? Probably more expensive I'd guess.
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check this link for the description. The R.O.G. series seems to have some pretty good "enthusiast" features that are new on the market for any manufacturer. I'm sure they'll be more expensive, but I'll probably buy it at any price up to $260 or so.
 
within the year I'll be getting a whole new computer. I guess Christmas. Still using my old 2500+
 
Next year for me. I've got a dual core AMD X2 setup now which is quite fast. No need to go conroe!
 
Asus said:
Yeah I'm seriously looking at boards with ATI's chipset (Xpress 3200). I'm leaning toward the Abit S939 board myself. What are all the features on the Asus R.O.G. series? Probably more expensive I'd guess.
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Any big differences between the CrossFire Xpress 3200 and the 1600? The 3200 board is $100 more expensive where I live and it doesnt seem worth it (plus I'm trying to keep costs down).

Any other suggestions for a 939 motherboard? I am looking for something around $150 Canadian. The ASUS A8R-MVP is catching my eye (I want 3 PCI slots).

The final system should be:

X2 3800+
ASUS A8R-MVP
2GB RAM
Western Digital 250GB 7200rpm 16MB SATA2
LITEON 16X DVD-DL
X1900GT
X-Fi XtremeMusic

I've got a 400watt PSU. I think that should be enough.

How do the 3800s overclock on stock cooling?
 
If I where in your shoes I'd get a cheapie mid range card then save your pennies for a DX10 card later on this year.

My X2 3800+ can easily go 2.4ghz on stock cooling. 50C load temps.
 
DrDevin said:
Any big differences between the CrossFire Xpress 3200 and the 1600? The 3200 board is $100 more expensive where I live and it doesnt seem worth it (plus I'm trying to keep costs down).
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Would the Xpress 200 be the same thing as the 1600?

Xpress 200 is 130nm vs 110nm (and only 8 watts) for the 3200 chipset. The Xpress 200 chips seem to get close to 300mhz fsb but the 3200 goes a bit beyond. Stock performance is similar on both.
If you are going for Crossfire GFX cards the Xpress 3200 is a little better I believe.

The reason I'm looking at the Xpress 3200 is because of OCing and the boards have been really solid.
 
DrDevin said:
Any big differences between the CrossFire Xpress 3200 and the 1600? The 3200 board is $100 more expensive where I live and it doesnt seem worth it (plus I'm trying to keep costs down).
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Xpress 3200 has two PCI-e x16 slots, while the 1600 has two PCI-e x8 slots in crossfire/one PCI-e x16 in single-card configuration. Benchmarks show the 1600 (such as the A8R-MVP) performs almost exactly the same as 3200 boards - sometimes even faster.

Which one you decide to get boils down to what features are on the board that you want/need - firewire, how many USB ports, dual gigabit lan, SATA II, etc. Just be aware that the disadvantage of getting an Xpress 1600 board is that the crossfire lanes run in x8 rather than full-speed x16. If you plan on adding another X1900GT in cable-less crossfire at a later date (for example), performance will suffer.

DrDevin said:
How do the 3800s overclock on stock cooling?
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Quite well. I have OC'ed several of my clients' 3800 X2s to 2.6Ghz on a Zalman CNPS9500 cooler. Temperatures remain extremely low and stable.

Asus said:
Would the Xpress 200 be the same thing as the 1600?
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Yes, they are the same. When ATI released their codename RD480 chipset, they named it "Crossfire Xpress 200". As their RD580 chipset (Crossfire Xpress 3200) came near to release, however, ATI decided to simplify the name to make it easier to compare to their next-gen board. Thus they told all of their OEMs/motherboard manufacturers/retailers to list the Xpress 200 boards as Xpress 1600.

This was suppossed to make it obvious that the number of PCI-e graphics lanes in the Xpress 3200 (32 lanes) were twice the number than that of the Xpress 1600 (16 lanes).


Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions, I wrote this at work, so I'm rushed... :p
 
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