Hexus Bench Conroe...Inquirer take mickie

ROFL, Hexus did indeed get owned. Serves them right for taking such a laid back stance on the review ;)
 
Yeah I saw those both. I really don't like the way Hexus wrote that article up. I really think AM2 has its good sides and its bad sides but it doesn't deserve what they said about it.
 
Well the thing is with AM2 is that its really AMD preparing for a move to DDR2 and 65nm. Once they've got it all stable then I think they will release something that competes again. Plus at least AM2 is available for consumers right now
 
Yes it is but even some of the true benchmarks shown are only showing about a 3-6% increase in performance over S939 chips. I am sure that the new socket and DDR2 will allow for a much larger jump in performance soon but that is not yet.
 
Just me or did that make theinq look really really snooty.

Personaly i like hexus' reveiws. They have a friendlyer approach that lots of places. It confirms the review was done by a person rather than the benhmarks fed into 'reveiw maker 4000.6' and then posted.

Of course OC3Ds are better;)
 
I'm not enthralled in any way, shape, or form about the upcoming AM2 chips. The performance gains are so lacking compared to the competing Intel lineup that it's a complete pitty.

Hopefully AMD will use this new platform as a launchpad for a new architecture to rival Intel and dominate them once again.

Viva la Intel!
 
name='FragTek' said:
I'm not enthralled in any way, shape, or form about the upcoming AM2 chips. The performance gains are so lacking compared to the competing Intel lineup that it's a complete pitty.
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just wait until amd launches 65nm cpu's then it can change rapidly.
 
name='Raven' said:
just wait until amd launches 65nm cpu's then it can change rapidly.
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The jump to 65nm alone really won't do much for AMD unless they redesign the architecture... Sure it will make them run cooler and possibly clock better but other than that won't do a whole lot until they redesign the architecture to run with more operations per clock cycle.
 
already now the am2 cpu's is supposed to run cooler and heard on another forum that the k8L cpu's will have more advantages than only 65nm.

did some qucik googling and k8l can change voltages for improved power savings.

better memory support, 48bit adressing and 1gb pages.

official co-processor support.

ras, support for memory mirroring, data poisoning suppport and ht retry.

more advanced prefetch and more sse3 instruction support.

double the numbers of fpu's making it atleast 1.5 times more efficient than today.

some of the pages hints there are more yet unannounced additions comming so will be interesting to se where it ends when it starts.

also the reversed hyperthreading i read about some time ago will be interesting hwen it comes but that will take time.
 
I just hope AMD pulls out some guns again and catches up to the new Intel lineup. As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't even look at owning another AMD processor until I see some benchmarks that show that they can compete with the new Intels.

Which I'm sure AMD will do... AMD is one company that absolutely hates to be one-upped.
 
I would have loved for Intel to pull out the Conroe when AMD was challenging them to a Dual Core battle a few months ago. That would have been hilarious.
 
That would have been really funny to see. AMD would have crapped their pants. I really do hope that AMD has something up their sleeves with AM2.
 
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