athlon 64

[l3ored]

what is athlon 64 fx, and where can i find the chips for sale?

 

[nick1985]

google is your friend. so is a website called anandtech

 

[bgeh]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1884
and try newegg to buy them

 

[MikeDub83]

Honestly, it literally sickens me that Intel launched their P4 EE to steal the thunder away from AMD. AMD has been working very hard to make a technically superior chip for the mass market. And what does Intel come up with? The same old P4 with a monster L3 cache, in extremely limited quantities, at some unknown price point (we all know it'll be huge money).

 

[alexruiz]

Originally posted by: MikeDub83
Honestly, it literally sickens me that Intel launched their P4 EE to steal the thunder away from AMD. AMD has been working very hard to make a technically superior chip for the mass market. And what does Intel come up with? The same old P4 with a monster L3 cache, in extremely limited quantities, at some unknown price point (we all know it'll be huge money).

This didn't stop the Athlon FX 51 to show who's daddy anyway.....

 

[OverVolt]

For the keyboard-challenged

 

[MikeDub83]

For those that were wondering about the prices here it is from THG:
Athlon 64FX-51 $799
Athlon 64 3200+ $499
Athlon XP 3200+ $359
Intel P4 3.2 EE $849

 

Originally posted by: alexruiz

Originally posted by: MikeDub83
Honestly, it literally sickens me that Intel launched their P4 EE to steal the thunder away from AMD. AMD has been working very hard to make a technically superior chip for the mass market. And what does Intel come up with? The same old P4 with a monster L3 cache, in extremely limited quantities, at some unknown price point (we all know it'll be huge money).

This didn't stop the Athlon FX 51 to show who's daddy anyway.....

How do you figure this, exactly? Just curious, no malicious intent whatsoever.. (disclaimer).

 

[MikeDub83]

Originally posted by: gorillaman

Originally posted by: alexruiz

Originally posted by: MikeDub83
Honestly, it literally sickens me that Intel launched their P4 EE to steal the thunder away from AMD. AMD has been working very hard to make a technically superior chip for the mass market. And what does Intel come up with? The same old P4 with a monster L3 cache, in extremely limited quantities, at some unknown price point (we all know it'll be huge money).

This didn't stop the Athlon FX 51 to show who's daddy anyway.....

How do you figure this, exactly? Just curious, no malicious intent whatsoever.. (disclaimer).

Yeah, unfortuantely even myself as an AMD fanboy has to say that Intel still has the fastest proc on the block. Even though it is a rebadged Xeon that they will discontinue and their sole purpose was to steal press at the AMD launch. Here's the deal folks...

The Athlon FX and P4 EE were maketing ploys, I bet we're going to see them die a quick death. The Athlon64 and the regular P4 will do battle until Windows XP 64 bit is released. As soon as the software is there, AMD will be the victor.

 

[NYHoustonman]

To me the article seems pretty much in favor of Intel. It looked to me like, where Intel used to have large leads, they are only slightly ahead, and that the 64 is ahead in at least as many benchmarks, and yet they are making it seem like it's a mixed thing. It's like, oh, they are doing good now, but in order to continue to be in good shape, they have to continue doing good, or else this means nothing...Right. I understand where they are coming from, but...eh, I dunno.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: MikeDub83
For those that were wondering about the prices here it is from THG:
Athlon 64FX-51 $799
Athlon 64 3200+ $499
Athlon XP 3200+ $359
Intel P4 3.2 EE $849

:Q

 

This might give everyone a better idea of the total investment involved for each platform.

GM

 

[MikeDub83]

Originally posted by: gorillaman
This might give everyone a better idea of the total investment involved for each platform.

GM

SATA Adapter-
Notice how they added the cost of the Promise SATA controller. Just because they received test MOBOs there's no question that production MOBOs will run without a hitch; and therefore without the need for the extra SATA card. That makes the Athlon-FX come within $54 of the P4 EE.

System RAM-
I'm not sure where he got the price for the PC3200 Registered memory. However, the Athlon64 does not require registered memory and it's use may have dropped benchmark scores and definately increased the price.

EDIT: Grammar