Should I wait?

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

thanks, thats a lot of good info to know, +rep

likei said, i'll be buying the pieces with each paycheck, not all at once. I recently heard of the PCI express, so that kinda gave me doubts but in anycase, i'm getting my new monitor, keyboard and mose first....thats taking up about a months work (i'm getting the monitor on thursday)....after that point, i'm not so sure anymore. i was planning to get the new motherboard and videocard, buuuuuuuuut, i don't know now... i guess i'll buy the RAM and then wait for changes in the industry, i was looking into the 940 socket (i'm assuming thats what you meant, and not 939). But the only processor thats using that socket is the Fx-53 which at $1000 is more than slightly out of my price range.

when you say that ATI has native support does that mean you can stick a radeon 9600XT or 9800XT into a PCI express? ( i highly doubt that).

I guess i can buy everything but the motherboard and its add on components. hmmm...when do you think the price would go down for all the new technology? because i doubt its going to start in the same range as the current stuff.

once again thanks

[quiet mike]

Right now AMD has 2 tipes of 64 chips; the 940 pin Opteron (servers) and entusiast market FX version of it using buffered RAM and Dual Channel, and the 975 pin or something like that. This one is a little faster and allows for the much more cummon and sligthly faster unbuffered RAM, but with only half the L2 cahe and no Dual Channel.
Now AMD is moving both of these chips to a new 939 pin version that allows for buffered or unbuffered RAM and supports Dual Channel on any RAM. (AMD bus controller is on CPU not on motherboard, so here is a chip design not motherboard, like I was explaining on Dual Channel coment)

Yes, ATI will make the older versions native on PCI Express as well as the new versions. They are not out yet, but will be soon. nVidia said that for the moment it will use a bridge controller instead of a native chip. We don't know if that will trully impact performance or not. Well have to see once they can test a full PCI Express package.

Happy buying~!