An Athlon 64 X2 for $300 by Xmas?

[Zim]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddyGame consoles are computers.

LMAO Computers for kids![/quote]Hardly. They have Linux running on the Xbox... with keyboard and mouse. I use one myself as a media center.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: Zim

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddyGame consoles are computers.

LMAO Computers for kids!

Hardly. They have Linux running on the Xbox... with keyboard and mouse. I use one myself as a media center.

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I wonder if Anandtech will try to make a Beowulf cluster out of XBOX 360...

 

[Lithan]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: Lithan

Originally posted by: Zebo
I dunno... AMD can't really undercut itself with $300 X2's... nobody in thier right mind would buy thier 3500's, 3700's, or 3800's which are around that price point.


I would'nt but I'm not an actuary either I'm sure they got a couple working on the numbers, right now, it's not viable or they'd be out.

Christmas? you got plenty of time to wait it out see how things fall..

At the same price I'd take a 3700+ over a 4200+... until I saw Multithreaded games on the horizon.

New tech almost never will win price/performance. You've either got to wait until AMD/Intel release a better proc then current X2's. Or until AMD does what it did with 939 and starts selling lower-rated X2's.

That would be foolish.. YOu would take it for the 1MB of cache and a slightyl faster core speed? The X2 is far superior..

I'll take that 2.2, almost guaranteed to 2.4-2.5ghz and have the extra core lying around for whenever I need it..

Less power draw, less heat output, better overclock, more cache, same price? Yeah I'd take it. I'm amazed how easily Intel/AMD PR has made people who wouldnt need Multicore/HT ever believe that having it makes/will make their computer run so much better. Game manufacturers are doing nothing but bitching about how hard it is to make games optimized for multicore, so I wouldnt expect many good games to come out for it for a long time.

 

[Zim]

Originally posted by: LithanLess power draw, less heat output, better overclock, more cache, same price? Yeah I'd take it. I'm amazed how easily Intel/AMD PR has made people who wouldnt need Multicore/HT ever believe that having it makes/will make their computer run so much better. Game manufacturers are doing nothing but bitching about how hard it is to make games optimized for multicore, so I wouldnt expect many good games to come out for it for a long time.

As a software developer myself I can confirm that writing stable multi-threaded code is difficult. But I see the main advantage of a multi-core cpu (for me anyway) is a smoother more responsive computing experience. While one core is chugging thru your firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spyware code, the other one can be doing what you want to be doing. As ever, Microsoft have seen that they can easily consume every gain in computing power that is made.