Intel vs. AMD, current generation of chips

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:05 pm

http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1/cpus/index.x

Very interesting.,

They even benchmark with SupCom.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:35 pm

I was surprised to see SupCom really DID NOT take advantage of a quad core... since Chris Taylor said it would.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:03 pm

I'd probably grab a Core 2 Duo E6400 and overclock it until it started to glow, if I were putting together a system right now

Yeah.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:40 pm

Don't buy yet.

Intel will be releasing a few new CPUs and cutting prices on April 22. The E6320 and E6420 for example, identical to their 6x00 counterparts except with 4mb of L2 cache. They'll go for $163 and $183 respectively.

Benchmarks for next month's processors with price list:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... e6420.html

A 20-30% price cut is expected from AMD on April 9.

Even now the prices Techreport lists are outdated! The Athlon X2 4600+ dropped to $122] a week ago - faster and cheaper than the $170 4400+ techreport tested (which is actually more like $159).

So now someone needs to plug these new prices into the comparison and see if it adjusts anything. New prices may move around which chip is the equivalent of another, price-point wise.

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Post by **GORDON** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:29 pm

Hey, these Intel dual-core jobbies... are they 32 bit, or 64 bit? I really don't want to go back to 32 bit.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:58 pm

32-bit, but they have a 64-bit instruction set on top of them, I believe, which allows them to run Windows 64.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:11 pm

So it's an additional software layer? Sounds like you just told me I could run Windows apps on Linux using Wine.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:27 pm

I dunno, Google it.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:31 pm

Do my own research? Pshaw.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:21 pm

More on the chips and the coming April price war.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/dualcore-roundup.html

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:45 pm

AMD upgrades dual-core Opteron chip to 3GHz
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/04/HNamdopteron_1.html

Intel looks to bury AMD's 'elegant' Barcelona chip
http://www.infoworld.com/article...._1.html

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:49 pm

AMD cut their prices, today. Significantly.

http://www.extremetech.com/article....0000532

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:42 pm

6420 OC'd to 3.7Ghz from 2.13Ghz

Whoa.