I gave up my former desktop machine to use as the new combined Asterisk/MythTV system. This means I’ve been using various machines scattered about the house to do home system stuff, and it’s a bit frustrating. At the time I commandeered the other machine, a system based on Core 2 Duo was the most likely contenderto replace it — even though I’m a big AMD fan, Intel seemed to have the bang-buck ratio covered. But what a difference a few short weeks can make!
In the last few weeks, AMD have released Athlon 64 X2s with higher clock speeds, and correspondingly dropped the price of the existing processors. The prices of some of the motherboards I was eyeing have dropped slightly as well. AMD was back on the agenda again!
Then, I saw a listing for the Athlon 64 4×4 chip, which uses Socket F rather than the Socket AM2 of the X2 Athlons — Socket F being the same socket used for the newer Opteron parts. So now, putting a Socket F board into the desktop machine gets a look-in… but then, I could upgrade the Opteron server machine and cascade the current dual-Opteron rig to be the desktop…
Choices, choices! Maybe I should just stick with the old laptop — dud hard disk (I need to turn the machine on its side when I power it up) but it works okay… kinda… Ooh, ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe… shiny…
Crossed Wires 