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| Thread ID: 55551 | 2005-03-14 00:02:00 | How quickly do hardware prices drop? | saikou (7056) | Press F1 |
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| 333737 | 2005-03-14 05:31:00 | By August the P5AD2-E might be obsolete. There could easily be a new chipset out for dual core P4s which would be a much better purchase. Also if you are going the DDR2/P4 way, you will have to spend a lot on low latency DDR2 RAM to get anything that will beat some of those older DDR chipsets or A64s of a lower price point. 1GB Dual channel DDR2 533 ram for $364. That is not a lot and certainly lower than I paid for my 1GB Dual channel 400 DDR stuff The P5AD2-E is also setup for a 64bit CPU so is a little future proofed. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 333738 | 2005-03-14 05:31:00 | They don't. Its just that the hardware changes. One of my first PCs cost me $2800 in 1985. Now if I was to go out buy something new it would probably cost be around $2800. Or my last upgrade - I looked at the invoice 2 years ago and it was about $1500. This time it was about $1600. Same type of items, just new models. So the board you want now will not be the board you want in August. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 333739 | 2005-03-14 05:59:00 | 1GB Dual channel DDR2 533 ram for $364. That is not a lot and certainly lower than I paid for my 1GB Dual channel 400 DDR stuff The P5AD2-E is also setup for a 64bit CPU so is a little future proofed. I would only really bother buying OCZ PC2-4200EB (3-2-2-8) stuff and that comes at a premium. |
E|im (87) | ||
| 333740 | 2005-03-14 06:29:00 | They don't. Its just that the hardware changes......So the board you want now will not be the board you want in August. That's quite true and in fact I already knew that. Now that I look over my post, I see I clearly didn't think it through, and that it should have been one of the posts that I write, yet delete cause it's not really necessary. I'm gonna blame it on boredom from not having any work to do today - literally. :mad: Thanks all for your input. |
saikou (7056) | ||
| 333741 | 2005-03-14 07:38:00 | i think we paid like $3500 for our 166mhz back in 1995 or something.... | Prescott (11) | ||
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