Price tag?

Nonsense.     I keed i keed

64bit native support for StarDock products now?

...like... Impulse... or DemiGod?

ahhhh not the future. 

my comp is barely keeping up now!!

I think he gave you a hint  Loot is in that word up there.

Jafo puts in a Xmas request......

Sigh....this P4 with AGP is feeling as old as I am....

Elemental for sure, no idea on the others. Probably Impulse, it's GPG's call on demigod.

Wow, simply wow, I just ran by newegg to see how much an upgrade would cost me, and doing it on the cheap would cost more than my computer is worth, and it's a quick C2D/8800 GT rig. It's about 1000 bucks to replace the motherboard, processor and ram, and not even with top of the line stuff. I can't wait till the prices on DDR3 and i7 motherboards go down, though, that'll be nice to see.

I think I'll wait til after the holiday rush, That should give them time to work the bugs out. LOL Jafo, sounds like you have my rigs twin brother!

Wow just went to Dell's site, I thought the days of $4,949.00 retail PC boxes was gone for good (checking calendar to see if it's 1989). The low end is 2 grand.

Too much im sure, these new processors are overpriced.

The CPUs are actually quite decent, with the "low end" (mind you this is a QC and it's no longer on an FSB platform, which is a big step) is only $320.  That said, the platform costs are insane at present.  You're looking at $250-$350 for RAM that would cost you perhaps $120 in DDR2 terms, and $300-$350 motherboards, which can only be regarded as enthusiast.  All told, it's close to or over a grand for your three "primary" components, where a similar C2Q Penryn base setup (3 components) will run you anywhere from a third to half that.

Am I the only one who remembers the Q6600 launching at $851, dropping to $531 a few months later, and finally hitting the nice low affordable MSRP of $266?  That said, it sure happened fast-but in all seriousness, the i7s as CPUs alone are not that terribly expensive, especially when one considers all they have at the moment are three offerings, one of which obviously has to take the "standard" $1k slot.

The Dell is cheap-almost but not quite too cheap-but it does have a shitty video card in it (replaceable, though), and they do throw in a 20" monitor.  It runs in the realm of $1k uncustomized and that deal is only good for something like the next 2-3 days (if that-sorry, wasn't paying attention), so hurry if you want it.

I know it it feels, with the P4+AGP

My laptop is a more modern K8 based system with a Geforce 7, but she needs to go into the shop this week so for the next 2-3 weeks i'm without a modern system.

But personally i'm waiting on the Phenom IIs not sure if i'm going with AM2+ based or getting the DDR3 using AM3 based one.

-Gabe

Low end starts at 2K. High end starts at 4.8K and change.

You'd really have to have more money than sense to be buying DDR3 at the moment, it's still about 3 to 4 times as expensive as DDR2 with barely any performance boost for gaming. I reckon i7 is going to be a part for the enthusiast only for at least the next 6 months.

I was sorta hoping they'd up the core count. The GHz bump is nice, but I thought everything was headed towards having more cores.

64 bit is the future of computing in any case .

It will be some time before I can afford to upgrade my computer, though.