Psssssssst...

You...yeah you...come here.

It's Friday, and I think I'm gonna skip out early, but don't tell anyone.

Oh, wait, that would require someone to be here to notice.

Psssssssst...

You...yeah you...come here.

It's Friday, and I think I'm gonna skip out early, but don't tell anyone.

Oh, wait, that would require someone to be here to notice.

Psssssssst...

You...yeah you...come here.

It's Friday, and I think I'm gonna skip out early, but don't tell anyone.

Oh, wait, that would require someone to be here to notice.

Processors ho!

So, I'm going to be upgrading soon. It's been over three years now, and it's time. The problem here is I'm not sure what I'm going to build.

I was so ready to pop an AMD Athlon64 FX of some sort into an Abit board, with these three being the top contenders depending whether I went with an FX-57, or an FX-62:

Abit Fatality AN8 SLi
AT8 32X
Fatality AN9 32X

I'd really like an ATi chipset, since I'm planning on going with an ATi All-in-Wonder X1900 or a Radeon X1900 XTX, but as nice as the XTX is, I use my current video capture card, and it being PCI, most new motherboards won't have room for it since they only have a single legacy PCI slot, and I plan to put a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum there.

I will of course put 2GB of RAM in it, which matches my current box, but so far 2GB is more than plenty for anything I want to do.

Then Intel goes and puts out the Core2 Duo. Bastards. It's cheaper than the FX-62 by quite a bit, and every review I've seen so far puts it ahead in performance, some fairly significantly. An ATi Radeon X1900 XTX mated to one of these little beasts would easily have me set for another three years without worry.

I can live without the All-in-Wonder bits, since my Sony Handycam TRV-740 will act like a media converter and take analogue video in (RCA and S-Video only though, my current Conexant/Brooktree 878a based card also takes coaxial in and has a built in TV and FM tuner) and pass it through to Firewire video out. It even has a time base corrector built in to correct for Macrovision timing tricks and other oddities (yes, there are valid reasons for having a TBC other than to override macrovision's stripping of the timing marks in the frames). I tell you, Sony is schizophrenic. Their hardware guys want you to be able to do anything easily and conveniently, and their content guys are insane megalomaniac control freaks. It's less convenient than the All-in-Wonder option, but I think I'd live.

Means I have to wait a bit longer than I wanted, but hey, that just means it'll probably be a bit cheaper.

Processors ho!

So, I'm going to be upgrading soon. It's been over three years now, and it's time. The problem here is I'm not sure what I'm going to build.

I was so ready to pop an AMD Athlon64 FX of some sort into an Abit board, with these three being the top contenders depending whether I went with an FX-57, or an FX-62:

Abit Fatality AN8 SLi
AT8 32X
Fatality AN9 32X

I'd really like an ATi chipset, since I'm planning on going with an ATi All-in-Wonder X1900 or a Radeon X1900 XTX, but as nice as the XTX is, I use my current video capture card, and it being PCI, most new motherboards won't have room for it since they only have a single legacy PCI slot, and I plan to put a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum there.

I will of course put 2GB of RAM in it, which matches my current box, but so far 2GB is more than plenty for anything I want to do.

Then Intel goes and puts out the Core2 Duo. Bastards. It's cheaper than the FX-62 by quite a bit, and every review I've seen so far puts it ahead in performance, some fairly significantly. An ATi Radeon X1900 XTX mated to one of these little beasts would easily have me set for another three years without worry.

I can live without the All-in-Wonder bits, since my Sony Handycam TRV-740 will act like a media converter and take analogue video in (RCA and S-Video only though, my current Conexant/Brooktree 878a based card also takes coaxial in and has a built in TV and FM tuner) and pass it through to Firewire video out. It even has a time base corrector built in to correct for Macrovision timing tricks and other oddities (yes, there are valid reasons for having a TBC other than to override macrovision's stripping of the timing marks in the frames). I tell you, Sony is schizophrenic. Their hardware guys want you to be able to do anything easily and conveniently, and their content guys are insane megalomaniac control freaks. It's less convenient than the All-in-Wonder option, but I think I'd live.

Means I have to wait a bit longer than I wanted, but hey, that just means it'll probably be a bit cheaper.

Processors ho!

So, I'm going to be upgrading soon. It's been over three years now, and it's time. The problem here is I'm not sure what I'm going to build.

I was so ready to pop an AMD Athlon64 FX of some sort into an Abit board, with these three being the top contenders depending whether I went with an FX-57, or an FX-62:

Abit Fatality AN8 SLi
AT8 32X
Fatality AN9 32X

I'd really like an ATi chipset, since I'm planning on going with an ATi All-in-Wonder X1900 or a Radeon X1900 XTX, but as nice as the XTX is, I use my current video capture card, and it being PCI, most new motherboards won't have room for it since they only have a single legacy PCI slot, and I plan to put a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum there.

I will of course put 2GB of RAM in it, which matches my current box, but so far 2GB is more than plenty for anything I want to do.

Then Intel goes and puts out the Core2 Duo. Bastards. It's cheaper than the FX-62 by quite a bit, and every review I've seen so far puts it ahead in performance, some fairly significantly. An ATi Radeon X1900 XTX mated to one of these little beasts would easily have me set for another three years without worry.

I can live without the All-in-Wonder bits, since my Sony Handycam TRV-740 will act like a media converter and take analogue video in (RCA and S-Video only though, my current Conexant/Brooktree 878a based card also takes coaxial in and has a built in TV and FM tuner) and pass it through to Firewire video out. It even has a time base corrector built in to correct for Macrovision timing tricks and other oddities (yes, there are valid reasons for having a TBC other than to override macrovision's stripping of the timing marks in the frames). I tell you, Sony is schizophrenic. Their hardware guys want you to be able to do anything easily and conveniently, and their content guys are insane megalomaniac control freaks. It's less convenient than the All-in-Wonder option, but I think I'd live.

Means I have to wait a bit longer than I wanted, but hey, that just means it'll probably be a bit cheaper.