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    Is this the end for AMD?

    I'm an enthusiast that plays lots of games and choose AMD for the huge variety of options you get, not just one blinding fast component and the rest craptel. At least you can bulid an integrated system that works and multi tasks superbly well, that's on Thurban and Deneb. Regardless of what the...
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    Dual-Core Ivy Bridge CPUs Arrive One Month After Quad

    ..let's hope that quote is on the money notty22 and finally Intel is paying some due respect to GPU performance and software support. It doesn't have to eclipse AMD/Nvidia hardware, but it must be able to do the same tasks, just like AMD's CPU's not the outright fastest, but they get everything...
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    [Tom's] Normalized single-core CPU performance at 3GHz

    ...IMO it is not possible to compare previous architectures as the software is developed to take advantage of the hardware features provided by the manufacturers. Little point in looking at single core throughput and very misleading as there could be very negative impact on shared cache memory...
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    Why is SNB impressive?

    ...64Bit, Hardware Virtulization, USB 3.0, GPU's, APU's, backward compatability, on-board mem controller, 6 cores, first past 1.0GHz, Eyefinity ......years ahead?? lol....... geeze i'd like to see your definition of "behind the eightball" Sure not every step along the way has gone smoothly for...
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    Why doesnt Intel make a 3 core cpu...?

    ..if that is the case.....then why does Intel even bother with the bottom end at all? If it's sold as a three core and it has three cores then it's a tripple core....made by AMD. It's a fully independant core, fully featured multi-core processor and if three are good why not sell three instead...
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    Is my motherboard compatible with Phenom II ?

    ...well, after my last job firing up a 965 and getting to love it I had another crack using another Gigabyte 880GA on my second PC, but this time used the 1090T and cross-fired the setup with a pair of Gigabyte 5770's and again used the old OS installation without so much as a hiccup. X-Fire...
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    AMD Bulldozer in Dec 2010?

    Superiority of one CPU over the other is not the issue IMO, more likely if Intel intend to change platform, "again," it might be a wiser strategy for AMD to change platform with BD alongside Intel, as then upgrading involves the same process for adopters from either maker. Platform change over...
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    Intel's "Black Edition" Finally Here

    ....OEM's will produce systems more competitive at the low end with these cpu's, so as long as they pick up and honour the warranty it should be ok, and I have no problem with it. My worry is that a lot of folks will be paying extra $$ for products running out of spec. Got enough problems with...
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    nVidia and ATI just might be out of business by 2016

    ....oh well when you have been working on 3D applications with Intel hardware for a while I can understand the lack of depth perception....or is that con-fusion?
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    Is my motherboard compatible with Phenom II ?

    ....quck follow up to my ealier posts. I bit the bullet and replaced the mobo and DDR3 RAM with Gigabyte 785G chipset and managed pc boot up and driver instalation without having to put on a fresh operating system. P2 965 (3.4) at default settings and able to crank up graphics settings in Crysis...
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    Is my motherboard compatible with Phenom II ?

    PC is now at 3000MHz Stable. Using AMD OC multi-unlock 15 X 200 voltage slightly increased from 0.975 to 1.0 mainly because going straight to 3.4GHz resulted in system shutdown and I suspect voltage to be the culprit. Interestingly P2 @ 3.0 CPU WEI index score in Ms Vista 64 is (5.3) slightly...
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    Is my motherboard compatible with Phenom II ?

    Quick note for those interested. Just placed Phenom II 965 3.4GHz CPU on AM2+ GA-MA770-DS3 mobo using F7 BIOS, no modification. Immediate boot and stable. Mobo recognises correct model, but runs core O at 1600MHz and cores 1 to 3 at 800MHz which I assume is C&Q at work. Currently running AMD's...
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    Overclocking is the Dumbest thing you can do!

    Well perhaps that says it all. OCing is not such a good idea after all. I have tons of old perfectly good RAM lying around waiting for an older system to put it in. Hey but then I don't OC. I've used both brands and heaps of others and over 20 years of building pc's I've seen no more than half a...
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    Overclocking is the Dumbest thing you can do!

    The real problem is that these happy go lucky OCer's flog their wares off to Mr & Ms Noob after the baking has been completed, or worse flog off a dud on ebay. But then it's never been OCed. One careful old lady owner, hardly ever out of the shed eh! Yeh right!
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    plz tell me what intel processor is better than

    If you can't get games to run well on a 2.6GHz X2 sunshine, it's time to give up building your own computer and buy a DELL.
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    Finally made the move to Intel

    Just out of interest can I ask what your 06 3D mark score is? Are you running XP or VISTA? I get 8000 using my trusty 939 X2 3.8 with Radeon 3870 on VISTA. Good enough to run Crysis (completed the game) at 1680 by 1050. I've really been rapped with that, wasn't expecting anything like it, other...
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    Intel's Nehalem...

    In my experience a processor upgrade is not really an upgrade on its own. Judicious upgrading is really a 3 year average cycle of processor platform and video subsystem upgrades. Processor on its own delivers very little in a plug in situation unless it just happens to be for processor intensive...
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    AMD Unveils Second ?Black Edition? Microprocessor for Enthusiasts

    I too confess to being a Barton lover of the past. Really can't understand anyone up grading from any dual core at this stage and we're all still waiting for the promised land of 64 bit so i'll hang with my S939 til then. Built myself a 2nd sys around C2D 6320, since folk around these forums...
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    Socket 462: Best CPU??

    S462 mobiles were multiplier unlocked and should be able to be set at any speed. 3200+ sat at FSB 200 x 11 that's why 2500+'s were so sought after cause they ran stock a 166 X 11 and could be clocked to max speed for Barton simply by raising voltage a tad and FSB to 200 MHz. Most Bartons are...
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    Could be my AMD barton XP go further?

    At 1837 MHz is stock speed for Barton 2500+ (166 MHz), but just happens to have same multiplier as Barton 3200 (200 MHz) (X 11). Your RAM modules are different speeds, and rated at DDR 333 (2700) and DDR 266 (2100). I'm not sure how good for OCing your main board is and its certainly a big...
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    AMD Cool-n-Quiet how it works?

    Display prperties/screensaver/power select "minimal power management" to let driver control CPU speed. Download AMD Dashboard utility from AMD site and you can see the speed of the CPU change as demand on it changes. Great feature and works very well.
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    AMD's Well May Be Running Dry

    (1)"If they are stuck with TONS of P4 processors, how are they cannibalizing C2D sales?" Putting P4/Celerons on C2D capable boards. Flogging off non C2D compliant boards to unsuspecting customers such as departments of education. I'm see'n hundreds of 'em. Just a quick example, I know one school...
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    How can AMD make money come Apr 22?

    Don't know that the next gen cpu of AMD is the intended purpose of the price cut. AMD is possibly a tad vunerable due to its ATI take over. Intel is trying to squeeze the cash flow of AMD a little hping to buy time on some of the new plans the new consortium has. The integrated chipset market is...
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    AMD's Well May Be Running Dry

    Intel is suffering heavy haemoraging as well. Not only are they selling new technologies at bargain basement prices they are also stuck with tons of aging and valueless stocks of p4's and celerons than continue to canobolize C2D sales and sell for less than the cost of manufacture. Sure it's...
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    Upgrade from AMD x2-3800 to FX-60

    I reck'n for $60 -100 you've got a nice performance increase. Then there's Dx 10 to get ready for, with VISTA and that new vid card won't be cheap, but a 4800 should get things humming along just nice until we get something new from the CPU manufacturers. Both AM2 and C2D are yesterdays lunch...
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    Athlon 64 X2 6000+ released 90nm/AM2 part

    Most consumers don't generally buy the fastest CPU avaiable. Especially not overclockers as they take pride themselves in ecipsing the performance of the big guys. So this leaves the big end of town and they would have to weigh up the whole system price. Have you tried a C2D on integrated...
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    Can Vista be run on older machines?

    I put on a a version of RC1 which didn't make any fuss. All hardware including ATI 9250 GPU supported. Performance for average user experience was supprisingly brisk. Played around with it for an hour or 2 and then returned it under win XP pro. But I was surprised by the way it performed having...
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    Athlon X2 6000+

    If you have a current AMD dual core set up (939 or AM2) there is little point upgrading to C2D anyway, so shouldn't affect too many of these current owners. However those in the upgrade market now who currently own 754 A64/Sempron or Socket A will see AMD lose a proportion of these owners to C2D...
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    Can Vista be run on older machines?

    Ran on P3 733MHz with 384Mb SDRAM and ATI 9250 PCI video accelerator just fine. All plug and play, but no Aeroglass of course.
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    a little confused about AMD Ghz rating

    Except that the reference target/product was both the 1st. GHz CPU and 2ndly. the fastest, so measuring in multiples of it would keep the numbers out in front of the opposition, especially as some other posters here have elluded to already that the early releases of netburst CPU's ran slower...
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    What's AMD's equivalent to Intel's Core + Core duo?

    IMO folks get a bit to tied up about cpu speed. Given all things are equal, C2D would be the cpu to own, but realistically the best bang for the buck is a component combination of mobo, cpu, gpu, ram, HDD etc, so given that C2D is also generally the pricest system to build, the X2 is...
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    Is this a vaild excuse to upgrade to C2D?

    hennethannum, RichUK is speaking with truth and knowledge when he says a faulty cpu will not allow any form of POST. RAM, CPU and GPU are all essential requirement for system to show any sort of POST. Otherwise you get only a black screen. If CPU is dead, then often no fan and usually 8 beeps...
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    Why I'm staying with AMD

    So why do we all need new 775 mobo's to run C2D? We needed new mobos to run Tualatin, and then again for Willamet, and then again for Northwood, and Prescott only changed the name, and then we needed a new motherboard. Crikey don't pay AMD out over platform changes please. (Oh and don't the...
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    Why I'm staying with AMD

    They've got the performance up on AM2 over 939 by between 5 & 10 % as of late, not quite as good as C2D, but then there's probably some more gains to come, given the diff in RAM speed yet to be fully exploited. Stay tuned. And don't forget that AMD now also have a unified platform with Athlon's...
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    Can AMD make it?

    No doubt about it, no argument, AMD have done particularly well. Mind you they charge like the opposition too these days. But i have to say their products have improved out of sight as well. They're deffinitely here to stay.
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    Can AMD make it?

    Yes, but when they hit the market they were much cheaper. Those of us in the know added great graphics cards and still saved some, and kicked ass to boot. But don't forget that one of the 3 didn't survive, "RIP Cyrix."
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    Can AMD make it?

    Whoops sorry didn't realised we'd flipped the page.
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    Can AMD make it?

    Whoops sorry didn't realised we'd flipped the page.