Whats going to be your next upgrade?

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Whats going to be your next upgrade?

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<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=2>Just wondering</FONT><FORM method=post action="http://pub70.ezboard.com/fk6plus67153fr ... ic"><table border=0 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 width="55%"><tbody><tr><td><input type="radio" name="choice" value="1"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=2>CPU</FONT>
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Re: Whats going to be your next upgrade?

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I'm hoping to get an Athlon Tbred within the next few months. <p>-=-=-=-=-<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://nohr.darktech.org/computers.htm" target="top">Nohr's Rigs</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--></p><i></i>
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Re: Whats going to be your next upgrade?

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I vote for everything. Hopefully in June or July I want to build a whole new computer. <p>Asus A7M266<BR>. <br>T-bird @ 1.33ghz<BR>. <br>256mb PC2100 DDR <BR>. <br>MSI Geforce 4 4400<BR>. <br>Windows Xp</p><i></i>
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More importantly....

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What are you upgrading to?<br><br>I am waiting to see what happens with the release of the Athlon 64. <p></p><i></i>
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I couldn't vote...

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Needs to be an option for 'two or all of the above'. I need to get ram and cpu simultaneously for my nforce board that is currently gathering dust...<br><br>Many people upgrading to DDR motherboards have to get the ram and cpu at the same time... <p></p><i></i>
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yeah

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I just upgraded to DDR and damn is that stuff spendie <p></p><i></i>
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Nor could I! Re: I couldn't vote...

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Because with me, it'll likely have to be a total package....<br><br>CPU, Mboard, RAM, video, case, etc..... I might have a hard drive . . that's about it.<br><br>Remember, the best system I've got is still Socket 7. <p>--------------------<br>FIC PA-2013 2.0 E-O036, K6-2+ 450 @ 500 1.9V<br><br>FIC PA-2013 2.0 E-O036, K6-III 333 @ 350 2.2V<br><br>Acer Quasi-proprietary Mid-Tower with P-II 266</p><i></i>
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YEAH

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> Remember, the best system I've got is still Socket 7. <br><br>And it still will be when you get an athy, King! <p></p><i></i>
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hmm

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I really don't know what the heck you guys are smoking!<br><br>my athy 650 was so much better then my k6-III+@672 and my athlon@1.85ghz(9x205) is even better :P <p></p><i></i>
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Well, I'm actually looking to upgrade perphrials next. A digital camera, USB 2.0 scanner and a halfway decent printer are on my list. If the price of DDR would go down, I guess that'd be next from what's listed....<br><br>I never really was a "cutting edge" type guy. I stay ahead of the curve, but don't run out and buy the latest greatest. I consider myself to have caught the hardware "bug", but I'll take functionality over speed any day (ie. an All in Wonder Radeon 7500 over a Radeon 9700 PRO).<br><br>so what those guys are smoking is the extra cash they're saving by only upgrading when the need arises...<br><br>just my $.02<br><br>-fire <p></p><i></i>
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ya ya what ever

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k6 are good and all but its not like there faster/more stable/ then whats out these days, I did not say anything about saving money but saying a k6 system is better then an athlon system is just crazy. <p></p><i></i>
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In ordinary business applications, many of which hit the L2 and L3 caches heavily, a K6-III can outperform a K7 of about the same speed or even a little faster. You can see the difference by benching both on CPUMark 99, which just hits the ALUs and pretty much ignores FPU performance.<br><br>Your Athy 650 was better than your K6-III at 672 because you noticing much higher framerates, right? That's no contest; the only thing faster than an Athlon FPU is an Alpha or Itanic, both of which are rather useless for FPS games.<br><br>The ALU of a K7 is essentially the same as a K6-x, the only differences being a longer pipeline (which slows things down) and a 128K L1 cache, which offsets the longer pipeline. Most of the R&D dollars designing the K7 were to develop the killer FPU--they already had the ALU part down pat. <p></p><i></i>
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if you can notice a speed up and slow down in office then there is something wrong with your computer, office apps take up no cpu power at all.<br> its like saying intels netburst speeds up the internet. <p>vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvVVVVVVVVVVVV <br>Athlon XP 1600+@1.82ghz(9x202) V Duron 1.1ghz V pentium 2 350@490<br>Crucial PC2700 Cas2.5 fastest settings v 384mb pc133 ram V 256mb pc133<br>Epox 8k9a2+(kt400) V iwill KK266+ V Asus P2B<br>Radeon 8500@280/340 V matrox g400 V matrox G400<br>Sound Blaster Live V 20gigs V IBM 13gb<br>2xWD 20gb 7200 RPM raid 0 setup V 16x10x32 Samsung V Windows XP<br>1xWD 20gb 7200 RPM V windows XP V No sound<br>16x10x40 Yamaha burner V 5.1 onboard soundV 32x cd rom<br>52x Asus CD-ROM V 3com NIC V 3com NIC<br>vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvVVVVVVVVVVVV </p><i></i>
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oh and my athlon was not only faster in games <p>vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvVVVVVVVVVVVV <br>Athlon XP 1600+@1.82ghz(9x202) V Duron 1.1ghz V pentium 2 350@490<br>Crucial PC2700 Cas2.5 fastest settings v 384mb pc133 ram V 256mb pc133<br>Epox 8k9a2+(kt400) V iwill KK266+ V Asus P2B<br>Radeon 8500@280/340 V matrox g400 V matrox G400<br>Sound Blaster Live V 20gigs V IBM 13gb<br>2xWD 20gb 7200 RPM raid 0 setup V 16x10x32 Samsung V Windows XP<br>1xWD 20gb 7200 RPM V windows XP V No sound<br>16x10x40 Yamaha burner V 5.1 onboard soundV 32x cd rom<br>52x Asus CD-ROM V 3com NIC V 3com NIC<br>vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvVVVVVVVVVVVV </p><i></i>
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It's a big jump

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I don't know what I'm going to do. I have already made the jump to K7 with an 850 Duron in a KT7 (no RAID) but I'm on shaky ground. It seems the majority of these KT133(A)s have a problem with flaky capacitors and this KT7 is no exception. Half of them are domed and two of them are leaking. It still works fine but for how long? The other alternatives like the K7S5A and the A7A are no better in this respect.It seems there was a period of time where the market was flooded with these flaky caps. I guess it would have been OK if you were buying the board new where you could just RMA it but those days are long gone for SDRAM boards.<br>So I'm thinking, maybe, of buying a T-bred since they are cheaper than a K6-III+ and they run just fine in a KT7 ( up to XP2600+) and then start looking around for a stick of DDR for the time when the KT7 gives up the ghost. <p></p><i></i>
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