Xbit Labs AM2 review

[mechBgon]

Hope this isn't a repost...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-socket-am2.html

Probably no huge surprises. Some gains, some draws, some small losses.

 

[Bateluer]

It helped me narrow down the memory I'm going to stick in my AM2 system. 4-4-4-12 instead of 5-5-5-10.

 

[aka1nas]

Did anyone else notice that the 4800 X2 AM2 chip kept beating the 5000+ X2 AM2 chip in the gaming benchmarks?

Edit: NM, the 4800+ has more cache.

 

[R3MF]

yes that is odd.

i was going to look at getting a 4600 in Sept when the 5200 is released, but i may opt for a 4800 instead.

having lots of cache obviously helps DDR2 more than DDR, possibly due to it accomodating the latency deficiency?

 

[TheArabian]

Bah, AMD no!!!!!!

 

[A554SS1N]

Originally posted by: R3MF
yes that is odd.

i was going to look at getting a 4600 in Sept when the 5200 is released, but i may opt for a 4800 instead.

having lots of cache obviously helps DDR2 more than DDR, possibly due to it accomodating the latency deficiency?

Hmm, nice theory, maybe the lower 4000+ X2 will benefit as well (and go faster than 4200+)

 

[formulav8]

Well, anands comparison showed that AM2 relied LESS on L2 cache. Socket 939 gained MORE from L2 cache than AM2 did.



Jason