Processors

[HotelUser]

yeah, a lot of people get the g4 towers and use them as storage slaves for music/video etc.
i'm happy with my macbook and external, though.

Some macrumor users are still using G4s as their main machine

[Recursion]

Made your mind up?

[AgnesIO]

Made your mind up?

Not yet, seems to be a fairly split mind atm! I think I am going to go for intel, however unsure as the 775 socket is going to stop being sold - so things like ram will, before long not fit?

AMD looks ok, but I will have to change some of the components.

Split mind!

[Recursion]

Everything will still fit, you'll just have to get older Socket 775 CPUs, If I were you, I would wait for i5 or just get an i7.

[AgnesIO]

Everything will still fit, you'll just have to get older Socket 775 CPUs, If I were you, I would wait for i5 or just get an i7.

Been thinking about i5.

Release date around yet?

[Tomm]

By the time you make your mind up i'm sure they'll released many new processors besides the i5

Anyway, its suppose to be Q3 of 2009.

Been thinking about i5.

Release date around yet?

[AgnesIO]

By the time you make your mind up i'm sure they'll released many new processors besides the i5

Anyway, its suppose to be Q3 of 2009.

Haha Tom.

I had read about i5, but when people drop more 'rocks' (e.g. faults with certain things) it puts you off!

[AgnesIO]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148796

Not to do with Processors however:

Would you guys say that is a fairly good motherboard (I personally think it is, just wandering what you guys think)

P.S. Gonna buy most of the stuff tomoz!!!

[jam666]

You are truly wasting your money... be my guest and ignore my advice as it is your decision but you will only end up spending more money in the long run as you will have to upgrade sooner, GO with AMD as ive said socket 775 is getting phased out in the summer so whos to say you wont be back here in 6months or a years time going.... i need a new rig and then we have to go through about 50 threads trying to help you again?

[Recursion]

You are truly wasting your money... be my guest and ignore my advice as it is your decision but you will only end up spending more money in the long run as you will have to upgrade sooner, GO with AMD as ive said socket 775 is getting phased out in the summer so whos to say you wont be back here in 6months or a years time going.... i need a new rig and then we have to go through about 50 threads trying to help you again?

We are telling him to wait for i5, which FYI, doesn't use Socket 775. :/ And actually a quad core running at a decent speed will do for more than a year IMO.