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Re: AM2 by conflictNo 08/10/2006, 11:23am PDT
Motherhead wrote:

I'm avoiding it. The added DD2 support is just swell but in the face of Intel's Conroe 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 E6600 outperforms the (newly discounted and still fucking expensive) AMD FX-62, 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.


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
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