So Ive been out of the loop for a while. Still running a pre AM2 Athlon 64 X2 in fact. Ive been reading reviews and such on both intels new i7 platform as well as AMD's platform. And to be frank, Im a little confused as to why i7 is SOO much faster than its competition! I hear everybody touting the on chip memory controller and such, but if Im not mistaken the Phenom II has an on chip memory controller as well. Or maybe Im just not understanding the distinction between the two? Pardon my ignorance here, but I just dont understand the technical reasons why the i7 is in some cases over twice as fast as AMD.
Just to clarify Im not an AMD fanboy or anything, Ive actually been seriously considering a Core2 here soon as an upgrade over my existing hardware, but even the Core2 is completely trampled on by the i7. I did a little searching around the net to try and get a comparison of technologies and not just benchmarks, but good clear information (without all the marketing hype) seems to be difficult to find. Though its possible that Im just not using the right search terms. If somebody could point me towards some good side by side comparisons and info regarding this I would greatly appreciate it. I might very well be convinced to wait for a couple more months for the i7 prices to come down a bit before upgrading at all.
Thanks!!!
Just to clarify Im not an AMD fanboy or anything, Ive actually been seriously considering a Core2 here soon as an upgrade over my existing hardware, but even the Core2 is completely trampled on by the i7. I did a little searching around the net to try and get a comparison of technologies and not just benchmarks, but good clear information (without all the marketing hype) seems to be difficult to find. Though its possible that Im just not using the right search terms. If somebody could point me towards some good side by side comparisons and info regarding this I would greatly appreciate it. I might very well be convinced to wait for a couple more months for the i7 prices to come down a bit before upgrading at all.
Thanks!!!