What to buy?
Friend's old P3-500 is in its death throes, and I owe him a new machine for all the work he's done for me.
But I haven't a clue what to buy.
Already have a nice dual core AMD Phenom II system myself, on a nice DDR3 motherboard with great ATI onboard graphics. Which I'd like to upgrade as it is getting slow (the CPU is slow...because of virtualization stuff I do).
But the 'upgrade' would be an Intel Sandy Bridge CPU, and its not possible to buy them right now.
And the support under Linux sucks. And I really prefer onboard video to the alternatives; just more reliable that way, and fewer parts to break down, IMHO.
So what to do? Ideally I'd wait 6 months until Bulldozer has appeared and Sandy Bridge debugged. But I don't have 6 months. And plunking down $$$ on an AMD 6-core CPU doesn't appeal either.
Anyone else agree with me that we're basically in a 'junky' period for computer hardware, where there's no new platform that one can commit to really?
But I haven't a clue what to buy.
Already have a nice dual core AMD Phenom II system myself, on a nice DDR3 motherboard with great ATI onboard graphics. Which I'd like to upgrade as it is getting slow (the CPU is slow...because of virtualization stuff I do).
But the 'upgrade' would be an Intel Sandy Bridge CPU, and its not possible to buy them right now.
And the support under Linux sucks. And I really prefer onboard video to the alternatives; just more reliable that way, and fewer parts to break down, IMHO.
So what to do? Ideally I'd wait 6 months until Bulldozer has appeared and Sandy Bridge debugged. But I don't have 6 months. And plunking down $$$ on an AMD 6-core CPU doesn't appeal either.
Anyone else agree with me that we're basically in a 'junky' period for computer hardware, where there's no new platform that one can commit to really?
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