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Originally posted by FunkyRider View PostClock for clock, AMD's aged K10 is no match for Nehalem, they just have to sell it cheaper and cheaper, or offering some un-locking lottery cores to gain market. pathetic but it seems to be the only way
Some of us don't need to have the highest performing chip on the planet. Some of us just want something better than we had, and don't want to break the bank doing it. Since AMD came out with the Phenom II's and Athlon II's, can Intel compete dollar-for-dollar? Sure, if I had several thousand dollars to spend on a rig, it would be Intel and it would likely make everything else appear to be standing still. That said, I'm pretty sure AMD still owns the $300-800 segment (total system cost).
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Originally posted by devius View PostThe problem there is lack of future upgrades. I mean, you could always upgrade to a core2 QX9770 (if you have $1000 laying around and don't like core i7-980x), but that's it. The future upgrade plan for LGA775 is already set, as with the AM3 platform there will probably be more new compatible cpus coming. The 6-core cpus are already here and I doubt they will be the last ones for AM3. So a comparision of athlon II/phenom II to cpus on the LGA775 platform would be more of a curiosity than something useful IMO. But I agree that including at least on or two core i3 cpus would be a nice addition to the review (although the title is Athlon II X3 425 on linux).
Originally posted by FunkyRider View PostClock for clock, AMD's aged K10 is no match for Nehalem, they just have to sell it cheaper and cheaper, or offering some un-locking lottery cores to gain market. pathetic but it seems to be the only way
Originally posted by jeffro-tull View PostSince AMD came out with the Phenom II's and Athlon II's, can Intel compete dollar-for-dollar? Sure, if I had several thousand dollars to spend on a rig, it would be Intel and it would likely make everything else appear to be standing still. That said, I'm pretty sure AMD still owns the $300-800 segment (total system cost).
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Originally posted by FunkyRider View PostClock for clock, AMD's aged K10 is no match for Nehalem, they just have to sell it cheaper and cheaper, or offering some un-locking lottery cores to gain market. pathetic but it seems to be the only way
And it's much better for the consumer to have several brands of cpus to choose from, since we all know what happens when one brand has the monopoly of a market. Lower prices and unlocked cores is not pathetic. It's called marketing. That would be the same as saying "What? That gas station is selling fuel for less than the other stations?? That's pathetic..."
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Originally posted by Otus View PostNo, Athlon II is based on Phenom II. The main difference is the lack of L3 memory. Even the older Athlon X2 Kuma processors (e.g. 7850BE) were K10/10h based.
While the most recent Athlon X2s are derivatives of the original Phenom architecture, the Athlon II is based on the new and improved Phenom II architecture.
Take two Phenom II cores, increase their L2 caches to 1MB, leave out the L3 and you?ve got an Athlon II.
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