Rant

[Fuze]

<Rant> Hey look! I'm going to upgrade my XP 2200+ CPU to a XP 2600+ CPU. It's only 400 dollars and I get a major 5% system performance gain. Also, since I'm getting the new CPU, I might as well get a new motherboard that has the nforce2 chipset, I'm tired of my nforce with my old school PC2100 ram. This way, I can get another gig of ram, only this time, PC2700. This new AGP 8x motherboard should suit my Radeon 9700 very well and it should suit my FX GPU even better when I get that in a couple months. I can't wait!!! </rant>


Just a pet peeve of mine, when people do things like that - a little to the extreme however, but it seems like it happens. It's not like I dislike the people that do that kinda thing, it's just that it seems so extremely wasteful.

[Mr N8]

Everyone has a way to spend their money. I guess, some people will always have to have the latest to be happy!

[Fuze]

agreed, kinda sad that way, but true.

[Blakhart]

I would do that if I had the cash, as technology interests me greatly. No probs mate, if folks didn't buy the latest stuff, we would have higher prices overall on everything else.

I know what you mean by the incremental increases, I am waiting for the makers to use light as the connecting bus for everything. Talk about speed and bandwidth.

[Fuze]

You got that right. How far off do you think it is?

[RenegadeKing]

Quantum computers. Now those should be fast. (Utilizing more than 2 states of the electron or something like that). They've already built some really simple ones, nothing that could actually do anything, but they worked.

[Nuclear Krusader]

The funny thing is that those GF FX that will sell at 400 bucks will cost 40 within 3 years. :rolleyes:

[Fuze]

yeah seriously.... oh well ... Someone should make a bell curve of optimal buying times for prices of different components .... it would display the best performance for the dollar or something like that.

[Nuclear Krusader]

That would be very useful indeed.

[Tuf]

For myself I normally build the fastest or next to the fastest speeds available. Then I just use it for a couple of years or more. In the long run I probably spend less than the people that upgrade frequently even if they stay in the sweet spot of price/performance. I try to kepp at least one computer that is capable of running just about anything.

[LawyerRon]

Fuze, quite a few folks have more money than brains.

[Computer Hobbyist]

LawyerRon is right. Some people do have more money than brains.

On the other hand I would rather somebody blow his money on a faster computer than on dope or something that might endanger others.

Quantium Computer--There is a concept. Isn't that the computer that uses old coffee as a medium?

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