Build soon or next summer?

[pjordan]

I would like to now the pros and cons of building a computer now, between say Thangsgiving and New Years, and between building one next summer.
Obviously building in the summer would probably get me more for less, but what extra things could I get if I waited?
And I am a overclocker. Price range probably up to $1000 for the CPU,Memory, Motherboard, Case, Power Supply, and Air Cooling Fans and Heatsink. (Already have 19" Diamondtron monitor, and an IceQ 9800 Pro)
I will be using this computer mostly for memory and cpu intensive tasks, such as P95 , and various chess programs, like Fritz 8, Shredder 8 and Crafty (don't expect the names to help, although Crafty if freeware and can be downloaded. It has a built-in benchmark)

 

[pjordan]

I would be interest as well in seeing what people get in the crafty benchmark with different rigs.
<A HREF="http://www.mark-yatras.org/chess/crafty_19.13_installer.exe" target="_new">http://www.mark-yatras.org/chess/crafty_19.13_installer.exe</A>
After extracting, load crafty and type bench. It will look like the following which is mine.

Total nodes: 87665086
Raw nodes per second: 819299
Total Elapsed Time: 107
SMP time-to-ply measurement: 5.981308

 

[Crashman]

Obviously PCIe boards will be new and unproven this year, and old and proven next summer. I'd build whenever is most convenient.

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[pjordan]

I already have a 9800 Pro which is good enough for me. However,I would like faster than CPU than my 2600+ XP. I'm thinking that now I would get a 3200+ Winchester, a d take it to 2.6 Ghz. This Christmas, probably I would still do the same. Next summer? I was thinking that I might be able to get a Winchester w/ SSE3 and maybe take it to 2.8 GHZ?

 

[endyen]

The first Winchester sounds like a nice upgrade, the secound sounds like a waste. SSE3 may give a point or two, while 200mhz will net 7 1/2%. Upgrades under 10% are useless, we are talking 1 to 2 frames in newer games.

 

[pjordan]

OK, so it sounds like I will be getting a Winchester soon then. The only mobo out for nforce 3 is the MSI one, should I wait for DFI to make one? I don't think nforce 4 will help, since I already have a decent agp card. Does the MSI mobo support the XP-120 thermalright cooler? Or would I have to use the smaller XP-90? And how would this fan be to go with it the XP-90?
<A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-999-132&depa=0" target="_new">http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-999-132&depa=0</A>

 

[pjordan]

I was planning on getting the 3200+ 64 Winchester does that sound good? I will be doing heavy overclocking. I went the best overclocking I can get with air cooling.