[sevisehda]

I'm thinking about upgrading as well. To be honest I have to stop my hand from pulling out the plastic at least ocne a week because I see some nice shiny part. Like rotor said there are alot of new technologies on the horizon.

I've set up some design guidelines for my new system. First is it must be PCI-E for graphics. Second I've set a date to not order a part until Halloween(10/31) and have it completed by Thanksgiving(11/26). The reason is I'm forced to wait. Waiting a few months will let new stuff onto the market. It will also bring down the prices of whats on the market currently. 3rd it will let me spend my "play" money on my Jeep.

There are always parts you can buy before hand and then hand them down to a new box. If I were to find a great deal on some HDDs I may get them. As for the CPU/MB/Mem/Vid wait 6 months let the market mature some. Also think about future upgrades. The next gen of video cards will be PCI-E and AGP, however after that high end cards could very well be only PCI-E. AMD has released 3 sockets in less than a year. While socket A seamed to last forever. Its possible that some of those sockets won't be around long and if you purchase one you'd have a harder time upgrading in the future.