Buy Now or Later?

[Penty]

I got my vacation sell back money early this year, today in fact. So the question becomes; build my new system now or wait until the end of December. Argh! this is the first time I wish I didn't have extra cash. Do you guys think it's worth waiting for PCIe and nForce4 or not?

[TeK]

I think PCI-e and Nforce4 boards are going to own. The ASUS SLI board looks sick but your going to be paying a pretty penny just for the board alone. Its ur choice. I spent 1200 on my rig and its a pretty high tier computer which I can't even use yet.

 

Really your choice but those SLI boards are going to own a lot.

[General J]

I think PCI-e and Nforce4 boards are going to own.  The ASUS SLI board looks sick but your going to be paying a pretty penny just for the board alone.  Its ur choice.  I spent 1200 on my rig and its a pretty high tier computer which I can't even use yet.

 

Really your choice but those SLI boards are going to own a lot.

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Other than for video cards, what will the advantage of PCI-E be? AGP seems to be slightly faster than PCI-E atm anyways.

[Guest zerodamage]

Other than for video cards, what will the advantage of PCI-E be?  AGP seems to be slightly faster than PCI-E atm anyways.

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It is the next generation of slots on motherboards. In the coming years PCI will go the way of ISA is today and PCI-e will be the common place.

[ishmael]

it all depends if you are going to be building a top of the line system and how much you are tossing into it. yes, its worth it..but those boards and cards are going to cost a sweet penny.

 

if i remember there isn't much of a performance difference between pci-e and agp at this piont, we aren't really using the extra pipelines.

[All Kill3r]

at this piont, we aren't really using the extra pipelines.

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You mean bandwidth ?

[General J]

So I am guessing, PCI-e yields higher bandwidth potentials then? Instead of going to, say, AGP 16X they are going with PCI-e?

[Penty]

PCIe adds more bandwidth, plus it is bi-directional. So in theory your video card could access the system memory directly.

[DJ Premier]

It also provides more power. So you don't have to connect a power supply to your video card, like some AGP cards require these days.

 

I don't think PCI-e will be mainstream until xmas next year. I'll probably upgrade in late 2005.

[Penty]

WhileI'm still debating which MB to buy; ZipZoomFly.com is talking preorders for both the Asus and MSI nforce4-SLI boards.

 

Asus A8N-SLI

 

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI

 

To tide me over I went ahead and purchased the OCZ Modstream 520W power supply over at excaliburPC.com. I really like the fact that it is both atx 2.03 and has detachable cables.

[All Kill3r]

Nice man, they just released that PSU and it's amazing looking. Wish it was out 2 montsh ago.

[Penty]

Well incountered my first problem. The CM Stacker is not designed with the latest PS w/120mm Fans in mind. Part of the PS cage has a bar across where the fan grill sits. No real problem a pair of tin snipes worked but thought I'd give you guys a heads up.