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Originally Posted by Bifta
I disagree with you there, I've noticed a marked improvement going from an Athlon XP 3200 (Socket A) to an Athlon 64 3500 (Socket 939), when I went from a Pentium 233 (S-Socket 7) to a Slot P2, again, massive improvement, no-one forces people to upgrade straight away and I think whatever is current at the time lasts long enough for people to wait until something comes along that will make a noticable difference.
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The 2 examples you give socket A to Socket 939 And socket 7 to slot 1 there was quite a time lapse between upgrades nowadays every new cpu intel(amd aren't as bad) bring out seems to have a different pin config it just makes me wonder(and cynical!) if they are not in league with motherboard manufactureres so when you "upgrade"your chip you have to also "upgrade" your motherboard and in turn "upgrade" your graphics card (soon cos there will be no agp slot!) and upgrade your memory because the "outdated stuff"(6 months old!) you have wont fit!.As for a marked improvement using an Athlon 64 have you not also found a marked increase in problems getting some apps to run correctly?As for not being forced to upgrade straight away agree with you but I do feel the PC mags do go quite a way in brainwashing folk to think they have to,after all most of their revenue comes from advertisements and if stuff doesn't sell they lose money and eventually have to fold