Worth a read:

PC World: "Don't Buy Your Next PC Just Yet. Honest"

Intel's upcoming chipset will offer PCI Express, faster memory, and a host of other new features. -

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116402,tk,dn060904X,00.asp

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

Right now, I am thinking very hard about not spending money in little bits here and there on hardware upgrades for at least a year or so, and then using the money to buy something completely new then.

I'm with ya Phantasm- I will game with my current set up- Play D3 and Halo 2 (if they ever come out) on the old Xbox and save my ducats for a wiz-bang system in a year or so-

Yeah then it will be 64-bit time!



Or maybe this "terrabyte of disk space you need" for Windows Whatsimanextit !?



I think things like that may be a part of it.

Well, with 500GB drives coming out this autumn, you'll at least be able to break the terrabyte limit quite easily.

And I partially agree with you.
I'll most likely upgrade my videocard and cpu (if I can use a better cpu on this motherboard) but after that save up for a totally new rig.
Reason I'll upgrade those two things is that I want a top-notch system for playing older games & such, since this will then be my last AGP/PCI system with PATA drives etc.

It's strange how different forums react to subject matter.

I posted this link on the Sysopt forum and, surprisingly, there were over 1500 views and four plus pages of replies.

But the response here is more or less what I expected.

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk

I'm thinking now that I should have saved money and stuck with my NF7-S and stuck a mobile barton in it.
Instead I got a 754 Athlon64 system. Haven't played much with the WinXP 64bit beta but it didn't seem to run that well :S

I'm hoping to make this system last a little over a year so that I can switch to a BTX, DDR2, PCI-e system then.

Yeah... BTX, DDR2, PCI Express, 64-bit, dual core, etc....

These are the things I am waiting for.

And I think my current machines will last till then.

I might have to build a second system before then though
Only have the one just now. Sorely tempted to make an ickle Shuttle A64 system.

Well the thing is a lot of people here have been in the "tech world" for quite a while & we've seen technology come & go. We don't jump on every new tech that comes out, well except for Arris of course.

Eric, most of us here already knew about this stuff before you even posted. We keep up to date with all the latest news, so your post wasn't particularly fresh.

I think this next machine will HAVE to be a complete monster.... certainly anything less than 2GB RAM would be a waste of time, as we would need at least 2 CPUS, each with 2 cores, 64-bit.

Now, I've had RAID 0 and RAID 1, and even RAID 10, but I think in this next machine I will be looking to purchase some kind of SATA RAID 5 controller card. Minimum 1 TB disk space.

Graphics - probably the best sub-£500 card on the market at the time.

Probably inside some kind of cuboid server container for a case - BTX of course.

HEY! I have to fill the void that is my life with something

I was looking at a review somewhere on this new Cooler Master CMStacker Case. It can be configured ans BTX or ATX and has the mounting brackets for 2 power supplies one in the top and one in the bottom and comes with a special adapter to hook them together. They claim it has space for 11 hard drives. The entire front is basically full of drive slots. Probably costs a fortune.

I wouldn't care is Wintel is reinventing the wheel, I wouldn't buy or use a Wintel product (other than the O/S)! Stop supporting the Wintel machine!

I'll stick with AMD thank you...................