CPU/Mobo July 22nd : Intel price cuts

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yup they will have backward compatibility till 2009 processors . the best about having a amd is that they have cheaper motherboards . so now take in a 3600x2 combo shift later on to the pheno. with the same mobo if you dont have the moolha and then one can always upgrade :-) .
 
yep, but sadly most of the new Integrated Memory Controller features which may very well account for some 25% (my guess) the improvement over X2's will be present on those new motheroards
 
ya thats true but the fact being that you get decent amd mobos in 5k one can always upgrade in a while for that mobo, while the same case good intel mobos are a good 25 % and more expensive :-)
 
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ya thats true but the fact being that you get decent amd mobos in 5k one can always upgrade in a while for that mobo, while the same case good intel mobos are a good 25 % and more expensive :-)
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one of the biggest problems with Intel is that there motherboards cost a bomb compared to the AMD's, too bad IMO...

now if only AMD would release Barcelona and be done with it :@
 
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Wait for Quad core to become the norm. If you already have a dual core CPU, its not going to be a performance boost to die for. Just my two cents I guess.
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yeah but i own a 3500+ and quad will be a hugggeee jumb for moi
 
AnandTech: DDR3 vs. DDR2

It is a noteworthy advantage with the P35 chipset motherboards that every Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processor we tested on the P35 boards ran at 1333 FSB speeds at the stock multiplier without the need to increase voltage. This is a significant, free, and pain-free overclock provided courtesy of the new 1333 bus speed option. The only exception to this was our top-line X6800 which did require a mild voltage boost to run at 333x11 (3.67GHz).
This little side effect will make the P35 with DDR2 a favorite overclockers' board with current Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processors. A $189 E6420 can perform even better than an E6700 just by selecting a 1333 bus on P35 and leaving everything else at default. Likewise, a $500 Q6600 will outperform the ~$1000 QX6700 with just a bus speed change.
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That means the real performance surprise in these tests is that the revised memory controller in the Bearlake chipset improves buffered memory bandwidth by 16% to 18%, with a real-world improvement in gaming and application performance of 2 to 5%. This is a pretty impressive improvement for a memory controller update.
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Edit : Maybe this should have been a new thread.
 
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