ExcaliburMM
Senior member
Hey Anandtech,
In my spare time, I build and sell PCs. On various forums people ask me to design them builds, and whenever I can't answer them, I direct them here. Because people trust me with their money, I try to keep up on what's going on. Today, I compared DDR2 and DDR3 memory prices again.
2x2GB DDR2 800: 88$. 2x2GB DDR3 1600: 79$.
To me, this signals the final nail in 775's coffin, as if all other signs weren't pointing this way anyway.
Now, from my entry into hardware, which admittedly was only a few years ago, I've been doing Intel builds. I'm mainly designing gaming riggs, rather than benchmarking/encoding/workstation, for various people. My concern is at what price point and to what comparisons is AMD a viable alternative?
AMD sockets confuse me as to which is compatible with what, due to the AM2/AM2+ business, but from what I gather, with AMD's lower motherboard prices, wouldn't an AM3 DDR3 system be viable for a build for performance between i5 and i7 with a cost effective price point?
I'm not really aware of the overclocking potentials of AMD chips, (XGhz being an expectation for X Intel chip), though I do see they offer more unlocked chips than Intel seems to. Nor am I aware which AMD CPU is comparable to which Intel CPU. Are there any charts that could give me such information?
In my spare time, I build and sell PCs. On various forums people ask me to design them builds, and whenever I can't answer them, I direct them here. Because people trust me with their money, I try to keep up on what's going on. Today, I compared DDR2 and DDR3 memory prices again.
2x2GB DDR2 800: 88$. 2x2GB DDR3 1600: 79$.
To me, this signals the final nail in 775's coffin, as if all other signs weren't pointing this way anyway.
Now, from my entry into hardware, which admittedly was only a few years ago, I've been doing Intel builds. I'm mainly designing gaming riggs, rather than benchmarking/encoding/workstation, for various people. My concern is at what price point and to what comparisons is AMD a viable alternative?
AMD sockets confuse me as to which is compatible with what, due to the AM2/AM2+ business, but from what I gather, with AMD's lower motherboard prices, wouldn't an AM3 DDR3 system be viable for a build for performance between i5 and i7 with a cost effective price point?
I'm not really aware of the overclocking potentials of AMD chips, (XGhz being an expectation for X Intel chip), though I do see they offer more unlocked chips than Intel seems to. Nor am I aware which AMD CPU is comparable to which Intel CPU. Are there any charts that could give me such information?
