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- May 23, 2004
I'm selling my XP2500 system, and I'm not sure what I should get to replace it.
If I buy a new better AXP system, it would have better overclockability than the last, better cooling, a little bit better video card, overall slightly faster for just $85.
If I buy a new A64 system, it would overall be a lot faster, but maybe not worth $300 bucks right now.
At first I was really considering getting a good A64 system to last me a year or so. But now that I see there's price drops happening at the end of the year, new better motherboards coming out, and newer chips, I wonder if I should wait until A64 gets into it's prime. What I mean by in its prime is motherboards with great stability, overclocking, new tech like PCI-E, and all around price drops on A64. I am guessing that this will all be true by the end of this year. But the real question is can a overclocked AXP system keep up til early 2005. All I really care about is gaming, for stuff like Half-life2 and Doom3. Is an XP-M at 2.5ghz and 9800pro ganna be outdated that quickly?
I'm thinking the best thing to do would be just get the AXP system, wait til A64 gets cheap, the upgrade in early 2005. But not if i'm ganna shoot myself later for not getting A64 when I could have.
If I buy a new better AXP system, it would have better overclockability than the last, better cooling, a little bit better video card, overall slightly faster for just $85.
If I buy a new A64 system, it would overall be a lot faster, but maybe not worth $300 bucks right now.
At first I was really considering getting a good A64 system to last me a year or so. But now that I see there's price drops happening at the end of the year, new better motherboards coming out, and newer chips, I wonder if I should wait until A64 gets into it's prime. What I mean by in its prime is motherboards with great stability, overclocking, new tech like PCI-E, and all around price drops on A64. I am guessing that this will all be true by the end of this year. But the real question is can a overclocked AXP system keep up til early 2005. All I really care about is gaming, for stuff like Half-life2 and Doom3. Is an XP-M at 2.5ghz and 9800pro ganna be outdated that quickly?
I'm thinking the best thing to do would be just get the AXP system, wait til A64 gets cheap, the upgrade in early 2005. But not if i'm ganna shoot myself later for not getting A64 when I could have.