Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
Hegelian:
Quote from: IgnorantBliss on 2006 June 15, 03:47:15
From what I heard from my husband, AMD has already annouced something like a 50% price cut on many of their processors, so I'm going to wait until those prices reach Finland, and then buy one.
What I'm reading is that AMD has told its customers privately that it will cut prices signifcantly once Intel's Core 2 CPUs are released, currently slated for 23 July. This is apparently because Intel's planned pricing scheme is quite agressive.
AMD Plans Major CPU Price Drops Day After "Conroe"
IgnorantBliss:
Yeah, that must be what the hubby was talking about. Looks like the likes of AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ might actually be afforable after the planned price cut. July 24th, hmm, guess I'll need to wait some more :P
Winklesim:
Geez I'm confused! ::) I have a computer with an intel pentium 4 3.00ghz processor which my little brother is due to inherit some time soon so I can buy a new one. Now I've managed to figure out what I need in the way of graphics cards and memory etc, but I am completely lost on the whole cpu thing when comparing Intel and AMD. I want a processor that is at least as good as the one I am handing off, better would be preferable, but I'm going with AMD this time around. When I was having a play around on the alienware site all the AMD's seem to have speeds slower than 3.00ghz.
Example: An 'AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 5000+ Processor w/ HyperTransport and Dual Core Technology' has a listed processor speed of 2.6ghz. wtf?
I must be missing some crucial point here (lol) but basically, if I was looking at getting a processor that is better than the one I have at the moment, what would be the starting point in the AMD line up?
J. M. Pescado:
The bottom line is that while clock speed has been used as a metric for CPU performance for the common peasantry for ages, that's not the only factor which decides the performance of a CPU. The short version is that AMD engages in a bit of hardware chicanery that attempts to wrangle equivalent performance out of a lower clock speed, but to the common peasant, this makes very poor advertising, so they use those inflated numbers to post its "equivalency" to an Intel CPU of similar clocking. This, of course, mostly serves to confuse the issue.
VyeOlin:
My fiance is friends with a guy that is a Senior Design Architect for Intel and his recommendation for upgrading was to buy AMD. He said that Intel made a huge mistake but they will rectify that within 5 years as they are planning on using liquid nitro to break the 5ghz limitations. He said that cpu chips will come in an enclosed refrigeration unit. Sounds expensive to me.
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