Not the first question like this, but here we go.
Situation is this: I used to have Athlon XP based system, until yesterday. Cpu is pretty fast XP Mobile, running at 2.5GHz. Motherboard is Abit NF7-S2. I received new X800Pro ViVo yesterday and I'm not sure what happened, but it seems that the graphics card was faulty and it broke my motherboard too.
So I'm now in a situation where I need a new MB. Do you think I should stick with my old cpu and just buy a new (NForce2?) based MB? Or should I switch the platform entirely and go to new P4-system or Athlon64? Do you think that for example P4 3.5GHz would run any faster than Athlon XP at 2.5GHz? The motherboard situation seems to be little crappy in every platform-genre at the moment. PCI-Express is coming but when?
So, thanks for advices in advance.
Situation is this: I used to have Athlon XP based system, until yesterday. Cpu is pretty fast XP Mobile, running at 2.5GHz. Motherboard is Abit NF7-S2. I received new X800Pro ViVo yesterday and I'm not sure what happened, but it seems that the graphics card was faulty and it broke my motherboard too.
So I'm now in a situation where I need a new MB. Do you think I should stick with my old cpu and just buy a new (NForce2?) based MB? Or should I switch the platform entirely and go to new P4-system or Athlon64? Do you think that for example P4 3.5GHz would run any faster than Athlon XP at 2.5GHz? The motherboard situation seems to be little crappy in every platform-genre at the moment. PCI-Express is coming but when?
So, thanks for advices in advance.