MetalheadGautham
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Hmm... 3K for better OC and AM3 Support.
AM3 CrossFireX motherboards not come below 6K mark yet.
Lets not forget the fact that AM3 is restricted to DDR3 1333MHz single channel or 1066MHz Dual Channel. Yeah, DDR3 1066MHz is definitely cheap right now, but Rs. 1000/GB still nowhere close to DDR2 800MHz giving Rs. 500/GB for the performance gain.
But DDR3 is switching to new manufacturing technology and going to breach DDR2's price in a few months. AMD SB850 going to fix a HORRIBLE bug in SB7xx and launching at end of year.
AMD Going to launch Athlon II series of 45nm K10 processors which lack L3 cache and come filthy cheap and have 45W Quad Cores among them.
If I get DDR2 now, it will end up like my first PC purchase when I bought DDR1 when it was about to be phased out and stay backward.
****! The more I feel like upgrading, the more I feel like NOT upgrading. Core i5 launch not making things better either.
I think the only good configuration right now which is future proof (due to being end of age, cheap and hence retains value after few years) is Intel E5200 or E5300 or E5400 CPU, DDR2 800MHz memory and a G31 motherboard and perhaps Radeon HD4770.
AM3 CrossFireX motherboards not come below 6K mark yet.
Lets not forget the fact that AM3 is restricted to DDR3 1333MHz single channel or 1066MHz Dual Channel. Yeah, DDR3 1066MHz is definitely cheap right now, but Rs. 1000/GB still nowhere close to DDR2 800MHz giving Rs. 500/GB for the performance gain.
But DDR3 is switching to new manufacturing technology and going to breach DDR2's price in a few months. AMD SB850 going to fix a HORRIBLE bug in SB7xx and launching at end of year.
AMD Going to launch Athlon II series of 45nm K10 processors which lack L3 cache and come filthy cheap and have 45W Quad Cores among them.
If I get DDR2 now, it will end up like my first PC purchase when I bought DDR1 when it was about to be phased out and stay backward.
****! The more I feel like upgrading, the more I feel like NOT upgrading. Core i5 launch not making things better either.
I think the only good configuration right now which is future proof (due to being end of age, cheap and hence retains value after few years) is Intel E5200 or E5300 or E5400 CPU, DDR2 800MHz memory and a G31 motherboard and perhaps Radeon HD4770.
