Upgrades!!!!

[MomijiTMO]

So what are we upgrading in Q3 and Q4 2008?

Anyone jumping on Nehalem when it's released? I won't be and will hold out until the prices return to normal [8800GT pricing anyone] and will look for x68. i965 was so bad that I've learned to WAIT til Intel sort out the mess.

Of course you AMD guys will have Deneb launching soon. The new GX platform strangely enough is giving an extra 200MHz OC boost on current Phenoms which is pretty nice if you ask me.

GPUs. So has anyone taken advantage of ATI's 4800 series and their price dropping effect on nVidia? I'm going to be upgrading in mid September and haven't decided on a 4870 512Mb or on a GTX260.

Oh decisions, why are you so cruel.

:)

[waterrat]

sigh...I used to follow the wintel market religiously....upgrading at every chance...I've gotten lazy and spoilt....macs as far as the eye can see here ;) and planning on getting a schweet new 8-core Xeon next year (or maybe the successor should be out about then) :) come onnn Snow Leopard! heehee

[waterrat]

what do you think of OpenCL? all going well that with bust open a bit of power! :D

[Proton69]

Upgrades? I upgrade on an as needed basis. I'm one of the more "hands on" nerds, recycling old gear - there was a time I converted an old 386 to run as an internal router using KA9Q NOS under DOS.

As for planned upgrades, I do have to upgrade in the very near future, as I need a Vista machine for testing web applications for work. Won't be the latest, I look for the bang for the buck - a good, solid machine at the best price.

For those who don't know, KA9Q NOS is a package written in the 1980's for ham packet radio use. It runs 3 networking protocols - TCP/IP, NET/ROM and ROSE (PLP) over several transports (Ethernet, SLIP, PPP and AX.25 - this one is the native packet radio link layer). It can also do IP-IP encapsulation and AX.25-IP encapsulation (much the same as today's routed and bridged VPNs without the encryption).

And to think I had it purring on an XT (remember those?) in 1991... ;)

[MomijiTMO]

No idea what OpenCL is =\.