Squilliam said:
It just means that when you upgrade next you're going to dump your motherboard/CPU/Ram because they all won't be compatible if you pick an intel platform at present. You just have to consider you usage patterns and how much you upgrade. How will you use your PC? - Games/Rendering/Programming/Encoding Do you value silence? Are you going to SLI/Xfire? Do you need abosolute high performance? Edit: do you overclock? |
haha, I knew what you meant by dead path, I just don't know why you think it is. Doesn't AMD change there socket every 15 minutes or so? I find it hard to trust them to keep anything standard for a while. (I have an AMD CPU right now, and have that issue).
Also you said AM3 AMD cpus, but newegg seems to call there sockets AM2+. is that the same thing?
I don't over clock (never saw any real world advantages when I did), and I just want the best performance for the money. Not the best performance.
I don't think will do SLI, and I don't value silence (most of the time I am playing games I have headphones on anyway, as my GF is trying to sleep upstairs).