Hi all: I am planning to upgrade my computers and want to find out what I should buy for the future!

Mark reiss

If power consumption is a concern, you should maximize the number of cores. I recommend a C2Q. They are the fastest thing out there today, and they over clock easily. Later this month, Intel is going to slash prices on their chips. Be sure to get at least two matching DIMMs to enable dual channel (reduce memory latency). I also recommend at least 512mb/core. A few projects require even more. So if you want to participate in them, you should get 4x1gb or 2x2gb.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7293

The exact date of the cuts has been rumored to possibly slip out a week or two.

I have been running Vista 64 Ultimate on a Quad core almost since the day they were available. It increased my SQL querries from a P4 at 15 to 20 minutes to less than a minute and Boinc crunches like mad on it. Only thing is a lot of projects don't run on the 64 bit Boinc yet so check the forum's on what will run on 64 bit Boinc.