petepete
07-12-2008, 04:58 PM
Hey guys, I'm selling this pc in my specs to a friend so I need advice on when/what I should purchase with a budget of no over 2000$. I am hearing Nehalem coming out soon but I want to know if I should wait for AMD's next top phenoms or Intels top processors and if they will support my budget?
I am planning to get a HD 4870 x2 and might get two of them in the future
I also want to purchase my computer before October.. so the Real
question I have is
1. Should I wait for the next processors? and also is there any word on both Intel's and AMD's top CPU's coming out?
2. Should I get DDR3 or DDR2 ram?
3. 8 gb as opposed to 4 gb of RAM since I am getting vista and I heared when you get 8 gb you get more pagefile or something which increases speed
4. RAID 0 worth it substantially?
Thanks a lot for your advice beforehand, I just really want to know if this is a good time for me to get a new pc, or I should wait a little more for something huge??
pete
I am planning to get a HD 4870 x2 and might get two of them in the future
I also want to purchase my computer before October.. so the Real
question I have is
1. Should I wait for the next processors? and also is there any word on both Intel's and AMD's top CPU's coming out?
2. Should I get DDR3 or DDR2 ram?
3. 8 gb as opposed to 4 gb of RAM since I am getting vista and I heared when you get 8 gb you get more pagefile or something which increases speed
4. RAID 0 worth it substantially?
Thanks a lot for your advice beforehand, I just really want to know if this is a good time for me to get a new pc, or I should wait a little more for something huge??
pete