Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: Re: AM2

[quote name="conflictNo"][quote name="Motherhead"]I'm avoiding it. The added DD2 support is just swell but in the face of Intel's <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?DEPA=0&type=&Description=conroe&Submit=ENE&Ntk=all&N=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0" target="new">Conroe</a> line, the AM2 is archaic. You are not going to find parts as cheap as you did for the AM2 but considering that the Intel <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115003" target="new">E6600</a> outperforms the (newly discounted and still fucking expensive) AMD <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103861" target="new">FX-62</a>, the value is evident. AMD has to respond to this with an entirely new CPU architecture (read: AMD is scrambling to achieve performance parity), suggesting strongly that AM2 will be a very short lived platform.[/quote] I've heard that the Core 2 Duo chips are smoking the AMD chips by as much as 70% on some benchmarks, but I really like that $150 price point for the X2. Budget is the same reason that I'm not going to take advantage of a pro-level video card like the Quadro. If AM2 can't take me through my next processor upgrade cycle, I can at least coast on the RAM and chipset and HDD connections. cNo[/quote]