Socket AM2: First Look

[WC Annihilus]

Yes, that's right, Tom's Hardware has already gotten their hands on a pre-production model of the new Socket AM2 4800+. Since this was pre-production, the chip was unable to utilize DDR2-800, so the test platform only used DD2-667. We see in the tests that, for the most part, the Socket AM2 platform is beaten out by the current Socket 939 systems, thus it seems DDR2-800 seems to be a must to get higher performance. Not much else I can really say about this, so you're going to have to read the article yourself to get full details.

Link: First Look at Socket AM2 at Tom's Hardware

 

[FarFarAway]

Moved and repped

Good work

 

[FragTek]

Looking pretty good for preproduction on some lower speed RAM... I think when they hook it up with a pair of 800's it should really take off.

 

[Tec]

Well now the battle begins for DDR2-800 performance memory modules

Also from the list of cpus i can guess best overclockers would be :

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2 x 1mb 65w 2.2 Ghz

Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2 x 512k 35w 2.0 Ghz

 

[FarFarAway]

OCZ have just released press news of DDR2 1000 modules so DDR2 800 shouldn't be a problem