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Anybody recently buy AMD?

Because the cheapest decent intel Core 2 Duo solution is (UK here) £220 for the CPU and a motherboard, but a cheap and cheerful A64X2 3800+ AM2 and motherboard is only £150. So if you're on a tight budget you can still build a system that'll rock most current games and programs, providing you don't want 2395792385634 frames per second on Oblivion at a resolution of 2359820*1294100.

PS: Nice constructive topic by the way. I mean come on, I'm new and I'm not even that bad.
 
AM3 and K8L will be compatible with AM2 motherboards........so one good reason would be upgradeablity. While all the Intel users have to upgrade the entire system to use DDR3 an AM2 user can just upgrade the CPU. They can use DDR2 and AM2 motherboards until AM3 boards and DDR3 ram prices come down. Saves time and money.

Please disregard the above statments if starting a flame war was the intended purpose of this thread.
 
I wonder where these responses were when the Pentium-D 805 was available for about 1/2 the price of a X2-3800.
 
personally I see little reason to get AMD if you need dual core and willing to OC. C2D oced cannot be touched even with an FX chip. However for non OC crowd there's value to be had at 3600/3800 X2s. Especially if you look at the motherboard selection at this time for C2D vs AMD. AMD has good mb for less. in any case if you dishing out 200+ bucks for CPU, then AMD isn't a good choice but at sub 200 range the X2 3600/3800 could be a good reason to buy AMD. Another place where I'd get AMD is single core, P4s are no good at single cores, I'd definitely get AMD there. There's not much contest for AMD at single core solutions right now like magomago points out, you can get a nice combo deal on single core for like 100 bucks on AMD which is more power efficient, more OCable, faster than P4s.
 
Oh please the 805 was a dog. Not only did they act like a oven and use much more power than a X2, they perform alot worse than even the bottom level X2.

No need to act like a faniot. Theres enough already 🙁


Jason
 
Originally posted by: formulav8
Oh please the 805 was a dog. Not only did they act like a oven and use much more power than a X2, they perform alot worse than even the bottom level X2.

No need to act like a faniot. Theres enough already 🙁


Jason
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And also then, like now, many people here had A64 rigs, which were easier to play with than buying a new CPU + Mobo (and RAM if they went DDR2)
 
I bought a 1.6GHz socket AM2 Semrpon 2800+ for $36. Makes for a nice 2.6GHz CPU. What Intel CPU can match the price, performance and low temperatures (running on stock HSF nice and quiet) on a $75 motherboard?
 
Because I already had a 939 motherboard with a Gig of DDR, plus I didn't want to reinstall windows because of the new chipset/drivers. Replacing the single core with a dual core was a no brainer.
 
To piss you off!

Let's see...

Cheapest core2duo ~$180
Cheap decent core2duo board ~$80
New GPU ~$100
DDR2 Ram ~$130
Total ~$490

VS

New AMD dual core ~$150
AMD 939 6150 motherboard ~$90
Total ~$240

You do the math on that one.

More $$$, more beer.

Sure it won't be as fast, but in real world usage it won't make much of a difference and the cost savings speak for themselves.
 
Originally posted by: dexvx
I wonder where these responses were when the Pentium-D 805 was available for about 1/2 the price of a X2-3800.
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The X2 3800+ isn't significantly slower than its more expensive Intel part, the E6300. It also runs cool.

The P-D 805 (which I did recommend to some, so no pointing fingers at me), was a rather hot running chip, and didn't fare well in overclocking except on the highest end of air and above. Plus, a small amount of people had throttling issues with it. The performance delta between it and the X2 3800+ was also greater than the delta between the X2 3800+ and the E6300.

And people for the most part couldn't plop an 805-D down into their current board, but 939 owners can do so with the X2 3800+. For a new build it was decent on a tight budget, primarily if you were using the system for multimedia encoding or high res gaming.
 
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