Intel bashing AMD, AMD style!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:17 pm

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/sho ... i=2713&p=1

AMD is the higher clocked chip this time, and it doesnt stand a chance, beaten as badly as it beat intels first 2 dual core lines!

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:34 pm

nice!

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:49 pm

wow. So now all you guys who got AMD X2's are gonna have to upgrade again. Im glad Im not big on gaming anymore. Id be thoroughly broke.

Pie

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:22 pm

thepieman wrote:wow. So now all you guys who got AMD X2's are gonna have to upgrade again. Im glad Im not big on gaming anymore. Id be thoroughly broke.

Pie

I won't be selling mine anytime soon.

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:09 pm

me either, i just spend 1300 bucks on this thing, keeping it till it dies like my old one..THEN going w/ a new core

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:12 pm

Humm.....I was gonna upgrade in a month or two.

I think I might wait a bit.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:24 pm

thanks for sharing, good read!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:04 pm

thepieman wrote:wow. So now all you guys who got AMD X2's are gonna have to upgrade again. Im glad Im not big on gaming anymore. Id be thoroughly broke.

Pie

This is like 6 months away though. Im set for a while with my X2.

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:53 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:This is like 6 months away though. Im set for a while with my X2.

What about the AMD Quads? Those supposed to be any competition for all of this?

Pie

David · Post by **David** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:04 am

AMD is supposedly going to have 65nm tech in six monthes.

We shall see when the vapor clears

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:57 am

thepieman wrote:What about the AMD Quads? Those supposed to be any competition for all of this?

Pie

Havent seen any info on AMD readying a quad chip. Supposedly the first batches of AM2 sockets are just gonna be the same X2s that are out now, just made for that pin out.

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:40 am

How much, and what socket are they?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:10 pm

KINGoFOOLS wrote:How much, and what socket are they?

A lot and not yet.

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:00 am

Whats this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819111178&ATT=19-111-178&CMP=OTC-d3alt1me
Any good?

David · Post by **David** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:07 am

KINGoFOOLS wrote:Whats this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819111178&ATT=19-111-178&CMP=OTC-d3alt1me
Any good?

Not bad, but this is the present bang for the buck in the Intel stable.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819116237

Highly overclockable!

775 Socket, though.

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:24 am

Crap I did NOT nead to read that aritcle.

I'm in the middle of putting together (pricing from online suppliers) an elite gaming rig. I guess I could wait 6 months or so.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:38 am

Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote:Crap I did NOT nead to read that aritcle. I'm in the middle of putting together (pricing from online suppliers) an elite gaming rig. I guess I could wait 6 months or so.

Bah!, the X2's rock !

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:33 pm

Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote:Crap I did NOT nead to read that aritcle. I'm in the middle of putting together (pricing from online suppliers) an elite gaming rig. I guess I could wait 6 months or so.

Ya and then 6 months after that for Intels home user quad core, then 6 months later for the 65m AMD, then 6 months later for...

Its not a huge deal for gaming.

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:14 pm

Hell_Yes wrote:Not bad, but this is the present bang for the buck in the Intel stable.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819116237

Highly overclockable!

775 Socket, though.

But how are they compared to AMD's true Dual Cores? Is there any bottleneck with the 2 cores going into 1?
It is a good price. Comments there seem scary tho with the heat being an issue. How high can they be oc'd?
Pie

David · Post by **David** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:27 am

thepieman wrote:But how are they compared to AMD's true Dual Cores? Is there any bottleneck with the 2 cores going into 1?
It is a good price. Comments there seem scary tho with the heat being an issue. How high can they be oc'd?
Pie

The problem, which will remain for the P3 tech Conroe chip, is the lack of hypertransport between cores. As I understand it, With AMD the cores can talk to each other within the package through the memory controller, while the Intels must talk via the FSB. This would mean that AMD should be more effective at splitting tasks. Unfortunately, I am not the best one to explain this.

Regardless, some folks on Hardocp forums are claiming overclocks over 4 GHz on air with the 9xx series CPUs.

At this moment AMD has the upper hand with dual core technology, but Intel fans can build some nice machines.

illestdynasty · Post by **illestdynasty** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:52 am

after this its twin dual core opterons...shooting for 3ghz......4 cores