Which of these AMD setups would you rather have ?

Hi,

Sorry about the simplicity of this question, but I do not know much about
these newer technologies.

I currently have Abit NF7-S with AMD 2500 Barton - 1GB RAM - ATI AiW 9800
Pro.

I have the opportunity to buy an AMD Athlon 64 3200 CPU with Asus K8V SE
Deluxe motherboard for a reasonable price of $179.

I mainly use my computer for doing audio/video encoding and conversions and
some gaming and obviously lots of internet.

Should I pay the $200 and upgrade my system?

ZigZag Master wrote:
Hi,

Sorry about the simplicity of this question, but I do not know much about
these newer technologies.

I currently have Abit NF7-S with AMD 2500 Barton - 1GB RAM - ATI AiW 9800
Pro.

I have the opportunity to buy an AMD Athlon 64 3200 CPU with Asus K8V SE
Deluxe motherboard for a reasonable price of $179.

I mainly use my computer for doing audio/video encoding and conversions
and some gaming and obviously lots of internet.

Should I pay the $200 and upgrade my system?

It's up to you.

Sounds reasonable though, and would outperform your current system quite
nicely, especially in encoding. Go check some benchmarks, I find Anandtech
to be mostly unbiased.

Ben
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"ZigZag Master"
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Hi,

Sorry about the simplicity of this question, but I do not know much
about these newer technologies.

I currently have Abit NF7-S with AMD 2500 Barton - 1GB RAM - ATI AiW
9800 Pro.

I have the opportunity to buy an AMD Athlon 64 3200 CPU with Asus K8V
SE Deluxe motherboard for a reasonable price of $179.

I mainly use my computer for doing audio/video encoding and
conversions and some gaming and obviously lots of internet.

Should I pay the $200 and upgrade my system?

What 64-bit software (OS and apps) do you actually have now or are
planning to buy real soon to put on the 64-bit hardware platform? The
hardware upgrade may only cost you $200, but what will the upgrade to
Windows 64 cost you? And what applications do you have or are in the
near future that will support and take advantage of the 64-bit hardware?
I believe the 64-bit version of Windows is the 2003 server version so
you'll spend a lot more than *another* $200 to get a Windows OS that
supports a 64-bit platform.

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ZigZag Master wrote:
Hi,

Sorry about the simplicity of this question, but I do not know much
about these newer technologies.

I currently have Abit NF7-S with AMD 2500 Barton - 1GB RAM - ATI AiW
9800 Pro.

I have the opportunity to buy an AMD Athlon 64 3200 CPU with Asus K8V
SE Deluxe motherboard for a reasonable price of $179.

I mainly use my computer for doing audio/video encoding and
conversions and some gaming and obviously lots of internet.

Should I pay the $200 and upgrade my system?

i have the same system, i'm waiting for s939 though, not this cheapy 754
stuff

"*Vanguard*" do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote in message
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What 64-bit software (OS and apps) do you actually have now or are
planning to buy real soon to put on the 64-bit hardware platform? The
hardware upgrade may only cost you $200, but what will the upgrade to
Windows 64 cost you? And what applications do you have or are in the
near future that will support and take advantage of the 64-bit hardware?
I believe the 64-bit version of Windows is the 2003 server version so
you'll spend a lot more than *another* $200 to get a Windows OS that
supports a 64-bit platform.

Thing is it will run quite happily on a 32 bit OS & indeed the AMD64 is
currently the best gaming CPU that you can get for 32 bit.
Not to mention that the Windows 64 beta is free & 64 bit Linux available.

On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:33:32 -0400, ZigZag Master wrote:

I have the opportunity to buy an AMD Athlon 64 3200 CPU with Asus K8V SE
Deluxe motherboard for a reasonable price of $179.

If you can really get it for this price, hell yes. Normal price of this
would be over $300.

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