AMD Demo's Dual Core

I just read that amd have every intention of keeping the next FX chip as the gaming market leader, and that the dual cores wont be in competition with it. Maybe (hopefully :) ) that means they will be in a different market / price range, and as there is nothing more expensive in the desktop market than the FX chips, so maybe maybe maybe the dual cores will come out at in a lower general price range than the FX's...

wait and see i guess
Glen.
 
4b5eN+EE said:
i meant ineffecient compared to the northwood (ive heard northwoods perform much better...but i dont know first hand)
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thats why i agreed with you :)

it depends on what speed the cores are run at... i think a prescot above 4.3-4.4ghz is more effective than a northwood at the same speed. the northwood is faster at lower speeds.

i say "i think" ... i am 99.9% sure.
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i think it would depend on revision...i think htat mightve been true of the origional prescotts with the 1mb l2, as around 3.8ghz that band-aid started kicking in and the pressy started coming out on top barely... but now that it has 2mb l2 and the latency of it has gone up, im not so sure a prescott with 2mb higher latency cache would beat a northwood with low latency cache at the same clockspeed, any clock speed that is. again, this is just a hunch, so someone feel free to prove me wrong with a benchie.

then again, NW runs cooler, and isnt that something we all appriciate?

I just read that amd have every intention of keeping the next FX chip as the gaming market leader, and that the dual cores wont be in competition with it. Maybe (hopefully
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) that means they will be in a different market / price range, and as there is nothing more expensive in the desktop market than the FX chips, so maybe maybe maybe the dual cores will come out at in a lower general price range than the FX's...

wait and see i guess
Glen.
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there are also rumors that the FX-57 will indeed be dual core, if you could post a linky to what you read taht would be interesting... a stock 2.8ghz or 3ghz FX chip would be pretty sweet too.

like i said before, if intel's preliminary released prices for dual core are true, and AMD wants to stay competitive with their chips, they will have to price dual ~2ghz chips around 250-300 dollars, as right now, the 3200+ is $190-200
 
It'll be tough for me to decide if I want to get one right away.. have a 3500+ now, but would definately have fun with dual cores... I'll probably wait unti they have 2.6 Ghz dual cores, and then get them.. that should give some time for patches to come out for games to make use of them, and for the price to drop a tad..
 
lithium726 said:
sounds awesome

just ordered me a 3200 winnie and a neo2, so ill wait for these to come down in price before i spring on it. they sould awesome tho


i think intel abandoned the p3 way to quickly. tualatin(.13u) had much more potential than they let it have, both of mine easily hit 1.8 ghz before my bus clock gets to high and my windows install corrupts beyond saving :p
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The Tualatin was a great CPU, no doubt. Now if only the Iwill DVD-266u-RN had been any good...
 
Josh_B said:
The Tualatin was a great CPU, no doubt. Now if only the Iwill DVD-266u-RN had been any good...
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ive got a MSI Pro266TD Master-LR with a pair of 1.4's, i love the thing :)
 
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