Wait for Presler or Athlon 64 X2 Now?

[Markfw]

I just saw the Anandtech Yonah II article, and it looks like its OK except in gaming (same as X2 in all apps except gaming) at the same clockspeed. They didn;t say anything about overclocking though, and that could be a biggie. If X2's get to 2.7 with regularity (not for me, but many others), and the Yonah can't go over 2.3 or 2.4, then still X2 wins. But Pressler ? no way.

 

[carlosd]

Forget about netburst. Presler is the same with a srink, a little more room for OC, but not enough to beat X2s.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
I just saw the Anandtech Yonah II article, and it looks like its OK except in gaming (same as X2 in all apps except gaming) at the same clockspeed. They didn;t say anything about overclocking though, and that could be a biggie. If X2's get to 2.7 with regularity (not for me, but many others), and the Yonah can't go over 2.3 or 2.4, then still X2 wins. But Pressler ? no way.

Yes, good read. It looks like Yonah leaves netburst in the dust as we all thought it might. So, AMD still has the edge, not a large edge, but an edge non the less in gaming and AT attributes this to AMD's' on-die memory controller. I didn't hear/read anywhere if Intel had/has any plans to go on-die memory controller anytime soon. Has anyone heard anything about it? I haven't really been keeping up with the "CPU-wars" as it got boring because it was so one sided in AMD's favor. No competition, no interest I guess.

Keys

 

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by: BlingBlingArsch
funny, the products arent even launched yet but the our "experts" here already know all about them..

pssh, Anandtech just did part II of their Yonah preview, and it was very informative. It's not difficult to infer from past Smithfield benchmarks how well Presler will hold up, seeing as how Presler has nothing more than extra(and arguably, unnecessary) l2 cache and 200 mhz more clock speed at the top end. Yonah at 2 ghz hangs pretty well with the 3800+, so it's not hard to see how a 2.1+ ghz Yonah will kill the fastest future Presler product(3.4 ghz) with lower thermal output and power draw. And seeing as how Yonah should hit 2.33 ghz eventually, I can't see why anyone would want a Presler. It would only make sense to get Preslers if a). you really need an Intel and b). Yonah can't OC at all(not bloody likely).