AMD's Future processors

[hfhf6]

I'm going to be building a system soon, and I'm trying to decide on a processor. I'm leaning towards AMDs cause they're cheaper. (No job) and I was wondering if anybody knows what AMD's roadmap of future processors will be. I know they have the 64 bit Hammer based processors coming out but I don't know when. If so can anybody speculate as to how well these future processors will OC? Thanks.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

what do u have now?

based on that, id make my decision

there is an amd roadmap aorund...also at their website...to give you a ballpark idea

 

[pillage2001]

Forget 64bit. Get a Xp2100 Tbred B and you'll be safe for the next 1 year.

 

[AndyHui]

The Athlon 64 won't be coming until September. Between now and then will be a series of Barton Athlon XP processors with 512KB of L2 cache, which should be good for performance.

 

[LED]

Here's their Roadmap and here's some Speculation

 

[majewski9]

I am dissappointed with AMD! Athlon 64 is delayed for almost a year! Opteron is probaly going to be expensive but it might be cheap enough to build a system around that is if they release Dual or single Proc boards for them. On the bright side the 90 nm Athlons are still on schedule and we know that there will be Athlon available with a hefty cache to compete with prescotts 1meg L2. I am still worried for AMD since I believe socket A is aging and cant compete against Intel effectively. Come on AMD go for the jugular! I want to see another massive chip war!

 

[tbates757]

I think it's pretty impossible to speculate how these chips will overclock, I mean an 8-Ball is your best bet.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: pillage2001
Forget 64bit. Get a Xp2100 Tbred B and you'll be safe for the next 1 year.

Yeah, the new Tbred B's are great overclockers for CHEAP too! A 1700+ will only set you back $50, and people are getting at least 2 GHz out of them; the 2100+'s seem to be going to 2.1-2.5 GHz.

 

[chizow]

Socket A will be alive and well for a good while; at least a year and a half, maybe 2 depending on how well Barton scales and chipset support of faster FSB speeds. Course Opteron/Hammer will require new boards and sockets, the 90nm probably will as well. One somewhat sketchy roadmap has the Barton scaling very nicely though.

Chiz