AM2+ and K8L...AMD's Saviour?
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FarFarAway
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Agreed, we can only hope 
FragTek
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I read somewhere last night that AMD claims Barcelona quadcore will be about 40% faster than Cloverton (Core architecture) which is a dual-die setup opposed to a native quad like the Barcelona. AMD is also integrating the memory controller on to the die, as usual which as we have seen in the past is usually faster than Intel's off-die memory controller.
FarFarAway
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/me hopes AMD gets back in front 
FarFarAway
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We were there mate
I had 6 A64's
I had 6 A64's
FragTek
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Once I get this new PSU, vid card, and physx card installed I seriously don't plan on making any more upgrades for at least a year... I've sunk for more money than originally planned in to this build but I wanted to make sure that I had a DX10 card and PhysX when it goes big, which I have a feeling it will do.
Only other upgrades I might consider making are sound card and Vista.
Only other upgrades I might consider making are sound card and Vista.
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name='markkleb' said:
Really? Wow. I noticed a considerable difference, especially when benchmarking. But if you're not in to the whole benchmarking scene and raw performance measuring then AMD probably is the best choice. 939 / AM2 is a pretty no-hassle platform, I absolutely love it.
Sometimes I forget that the name of the forum is OC3D Kind of "taking it to the edge" like your case.
Mabye when DX10 games show up and games really need 2, 4 or 8 cores it will be different.
I do have to admit 1 thing, Intel did a very good job of making the price of the C2D close.
For me my DFI Expert, GeilONE,Opty148 and 7600GTs were easily hitting over 11K in 3DMark05 and my Abit AB9Pro,Corsair XMS2 and 7900GS wouldnt get much over 9K no matter what I did.
Kind of "taking it to the edge" like your case.Mabye when DX10 games show up and games really need 2, 4 or 8 cores it will be different.
I do have to admit 1 thing, Intel did a very good job of making the price of the C2D close.
For me my DFI Expert, GeilONE,Opty148 and 7600GTs were easily hitting over 11K in 3DMark05 and my Abit AB9Pro,Corsair XMS2 and 7900GS wouldnt get much over 9K no matter what I did.
When I first got the pc bug, I was a fan of AMD because they didn't use 'brute force' to make their cpu's. It was 'think outside the box', and what Intel could do with 3GHz, AMD could do with 2GHz.
Now Intel has regrouped and AMD has taken one b!t(# slap after another. I hope they can pull it out and get neck-and-neck competitive again... for the simple economics of the situation. I'm a capitalist and don't believe true monopolies exist, but it wouldn't be good for us consumers if AMD went down the poopchute.
As for this 'AM2+' and 'K8L', gotta show me something before I can make a call. I saw an article in Maximum PC about the 2-cpu 'QuadFX', and was a bit deflated when I saw that a single-cpu QX6700 beat it down like Ivan Drago did to Rocky. (You all know Rocky should've been so much tomato paste...)
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Now Intel has regrouped and AMD has taken one b!t(# slap after another. I hope they can pull it out and get neck-and-neck competitive again... for the simple economics of the situation. I'm a capitalist and don't believe true monopolies exist, but it wouldn't be good for us consumers if AMD went down the poopchute.
As for this 'AM2+' and 'K8L', gotta show me something before I can make a call. I saw an article in Maximum PC about the 2-cpu 'QuadFX', and was a bit deflated when I saw that a single-cpu QX6700 beat it down like Ivan Drago did to Rocky. (You all know Rocky should've been so much tomato paste...)
TJS
