Building yer Own.
Hello,
Someone mentioned a CPU form factor change as a good reason to hold off buying components.
That's not the only good reason, do a google search on:
" MINI PCI Express "
The old PCI slots are going to leave us very soon to be replaced with the above, important for many reasons , not the least of which is speed or bandwidth increases using the new mini PCI format but also the old AGP slot ( for grafics cards is going to be dumped in favour of the new Mini PCI express video card format.) I read somewhere that mini PCI Express will have up to 8 x more bandwidth for your video card than the current 8 x AGP ports on current motherboards.
In fact I heard rumour that ATI and nVidia both have stopped supporting further development of AGP based video cards.
Now to the 64 bit argument:
Reading the system tests result for the Intel P4 3.2 Ghz EE chip ( Yes I know they are awful proud of their stuff at just under a grand a CPU )
versus the AMD 64 bit Cpu architecture, the Intel 32 bit P4 ( EE ) beats the AMD in about every benchmarkiing test.
This is important why ?
Keep yer eye on motherboards, when the new mini PCI express comes out and AMD front their latest and gratest along with Intel's new 64 bit chip you should see an almost 50 percent drop in the cost of Intel's current powerhouse the Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz EE ( 800 Front Side Bus ) Job.
My advice ?
Get the new Mini PCI express mobo that supports Intel CPU's when they come out, I recommend ASUS, go buy a gig of the fastest RAM you can find , buy the INTEL 3.2 GHz EE chip and then when you saved up enough grab one of the new mini PCI Express Video cards.
DOOM you say ?
The machine above should be able to run 5 simultaneous Mars missions and give you a tickle in yer shorts while you blast DOOM's aliens in full glorious nVidia or ATI technicolor with a belt-fed, rocket assisted lazer-sabre on your new homebuilt Intel powered machine.
I think therefore I must have been.