New computer

[LavCat]

It's been a couple of years since I did a new computer, and I'm excited to build one based on Bulldozer to see what it can do.

Yeah, I wish I could say more.

Whenever you are drunk and feel like sharing, please say more. My tax refund will be larger than anticipated and I'm still trying to get WoW up to 60 FPS.

But if AMD doesn't hurry itself up the refund may go to other necessities like food and shelter. Even if Bulldozer (and new motherboard) are too expensive, I'm hoping prices on existing Phenom II processors will tank, and maybe I can get a faster one than my existing 720. Unfortunately I don't think any of the current line up will give me 60 FPS though.

Would have been nice if Bulldozer had the option to work in socket AM3.


Edit: I have a question about AM3+, and since AM3+ motherboards (or at least one AM3+ motherboard at newegg) are on the market perhaps the AM3+ standard can be spoken of: do you or anyone know if AM3+ specifies more room between the CPU socket and the RAM sockets? On my Asus M4A79T Deluxe AM3 motherboard the first two RAM sockets are unusable because of too little space. Bad design in my opinion.

Another unrelated computer question: since current motherboards seem to have dropped the floppy socket, does anyone know of a PCI or PCIe floppy controller card?