Here is what I have heard from my AMD, Intel, and various other reps.


The 2800XP+ (I think it was) is suppose to be the last of the XP+ chips. Along with the P4 2.8. Towards the end of the year, and into 2k3, they are going to be releasing some new design of chips. As far as I know they new Intel chips won't be called Pentiums. If you are planning on buying system, I would wait till Jan. Also becuase serial ATA HD's are on the way. We have seen this with the new Asus P4S8X and A7V8X, both having 2 serial ATA channels on them, altough there curently isn't any serial ATA HD's on the market. As for video cards, the new 9700 it decent and beats the GF4 for benchmark, but I mean the driver support is usuault ATI... CRAP. Don't forget that the GF4 is like 6 months old now. nVidia is also set to release a new GPU chipset in Q4, and no it won't be called the Geforce5. That is about what I know, so if it were up to me I would wait till Jan and see just what gets dropped on the market by the end of the year.

and BTW... I have 2 (two) AMD 2600XP's that my AMD rep sent me