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AMD 64 & P4 3.2Ghz Extreme Edition review.

Originally posted by: Richdog
Don't know if it's already been posted but I could'nt find it on search, but it's an interesting article anyway for you to read. 🙂:beer:😀

EDIT - Forgot the link as usual, lol.

A64 & P4 3.2Ghz Extreme Edition Review @ Tech Report
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Excellent review. Thanks!

Well judging from this, AMD does very well. I guess now it is up to just how much you want to spend, but then again it always has bend. Id like to know how much the FX-51 will be, but even the 64 3200+ does well.
 
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: Richdog
Don't know if it's already been posted but I could'nt find it on search, but it's an interesting article anyway for you to read. 🙂:beer:😀

EDIT - Forgot the link as usual, lol.

A64 & P4 3.2Ghz Extreme Edition Review @ Tech Report
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Excellent review. Thanks!

Well judging from this, AMD does very well. I guess now it is up to just how much you want to spend, but then again it always has bend. Id like to know how much the FX-51 will be, but even the 64 3200+ does well.
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i believe the reviews state that the fx cpu of amd will cost a little over $730.. which is a little to much for me to pay, but then saying that, the p4 ee version is just as much.. if it was all a little cheaper ($500 perhaps?) it might be more afordable for early adaptors and all. but even then its a little expensive.. the athlon 64 is a little over $410 i believe...
but one thing is for sure.. they are all very quick cpu's, i think overall amd is for me judging by the reviews, i would just love to see more mhz from amd now.. that would be the icing on the cake.. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: gorillaman
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: alexruiz
Tech report usually has excellent reviews....
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I must say out of the 5 or so I have seen they(tech report) impresses me the most.
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Why?
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The link is up there. Comapred to the rest, the review has a massive selection of benchmarks, and he seems to be the least biased towards either side. I just like his style.
 
I liked that review a lot... LOTS of test results... none we omitted just because one processor tends to significantly out-perform another... like some review sites we all know tend to do ::ahem:: ::cough cough::
 
I laughed when the review said:
At 178 million transistors, this Edition is most definitely Extreme. The die size is an impressive 237 square millimeters, or just about the size of Vermont.
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Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: alexruiz
Tech report usually has excellent reviews....
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I must say out of the 5 or so I have seen they(tech report) impresses me the most.
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^ I agree with you there. This quote is from the Techreport review, and it basically summarizes my uneasiness with the P4EE (statement bolded by me):

The question I have is whether Intel will remain committed to future Extreme Edition processors. AMD has proclaimed its commitment to keeping the Athlon 64 FX on top. In fact, AMD has been releasing low-volume high-end parts since a year ago, with the T-bred 2800+ chip, which was never available via retail. These products aren't a good value proposition, but they do give well-funded enthusiasts a chance to grab the latest technology before everybody else. I'm curious to see whether Intel will play this game long term.
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That's it right there. I think the P4EE is a really exciting chip. A P4 with not only the usual 512K of L2 cache, but a whopping 2MB of L3 cache!! This very chip (in Xeon form) costs upwards of $5000, and intel is putting it into a mainstream CPU (sort of). That's pretty exciting! But that's also the catch. If Intel were to "Extrematize" their whole lineup, and add 2MB of L3 cache to the whole P4 series, then it would be a brilliant countermove. But they aren't, not by a long shot. They're just doing it to one chip at the very top of their lineup that nobody can afford, nor can anyone buy it until a couple months from now. It will put the P4 back on to of all the benchmarks, "rejuvinating" the P4 if you will, and nobody will ever see any of that performance boost. It's just a marketing trick.

Let's just call it Intel's "Detonator 50" if you will 😉 .
 
If the EE's are 2 months away from launch then it's just a paper launch for now. The AMD chips are available now.
 
Originally posted by: gorillaman
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: alexruiz
Tech report usually has excellent reviews....
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I must say out of the 5 or so I have seen they(tech report) impresses me the most.
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Why?
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Wide selection of benchmarks, neutral position, accurate comments, variety in the hardware shown (Nforce3 and K8T800 for example), good explanations, fresh style and most important of all, good use of the resources provided by the benchmarks (He was the ONLY one before showing graphs of framerates over time and minimum framerates in Serious Sam while stressing that what kills the playability is the minimum framerate... not a lot of sites do that)

I read his review first, Ace's second..... and that is usually my order.
 
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