Tom <[email protected]> posted 20090220152350.752d0...@viciousvincent, excerpted below, on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:23:50 +0100:
> My system is also still agp-based, which just adds to the trouble. > Buying a 'new' agp-card almost certainly puts you at a disadvantage, > because you will pay more, fore less so to speak. > > So I've just been 'hanging' on, waiting for the 'right time' to do a > full update. Well, for me I'm going to stick with my mobo and therefore AGP for awhile yet. It's a Tyan server class dual socket Opteron board, so it should give many years of service yet, perhaps with a battery replacement eventually (I've already had it... over five years now, and may well use it five more, a decade old board, yeah, probably a battery replace). I've already topped out the CPUs at dual dual-core Opteron 290s, I have 8 gigs RAM in the thing, I'm running 4xSATA 300 gigs in RAID... I upgraded my monitors to dual 1920x1200 LCDs... really the only thing it needs is a good solid AGP card with dual dual-link DVI so I can replace the VGA cable to the one of the two monitors, and as I said, I can see myself using it for another five years. By that time, oct-core CPUs and the mobos to take them should be nice and cheep, and I'll probably double memory and cores on a new mobo AND get a decent video upgrade for <$500. Yeah, I could do pretty good with a single-socket quad-core side-grade now, but I know this machine now and other than the video it's more than I'll need for another few years yet, so if I spend a bit more for a bit less fancy video than I could get on a new system, oh, well. OTOH, maybe by then I'll decide I want a quad-core 8 gig memory 1 terabyte SSD netbook for maybe $200, instead. <shrug> -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
