Your Opinion

[Rusteh]

so I'm trying to get a thread here started that might actually spark some conversation here....

What are your opinions on the new AM2 socket Processors by AMD and what are your expectations of the soon to be released Conroe core processors by Intel?

Also What are your expectations of Vista and do you impatiently wait for it or could care less?

 

[lemon]

i dont know what new stuff vista will have, but i got a dvd iso image of it, and i also have one coming in the mail.

conroe or core-duo is currently being sold in notebooks, but i dont know about am2 much...

i do know that i am working on some projects myself and in a few years, i should ( read: hope ) have something things for ms. we'll see

 

[Rusteh]

actually the core duo's are different then what i'm hearing about the conroe's...

* 20% more performance for Merom at the same power level (compared to Core Duo)
* 40% more performance for Conroe at 40% less power (compared to Pentium D)
* 80% more performance for Woodcrest at 35% less power (compared to the original dual-core Xeon)

that is the info I get from wikipedia at least...

 

[lemon]

yeah, i got em mixed up. all i know is when i want a new comp, ill go lookin :cool

 

[Rusteh]

my curiousity is would it be worth the money or should I just wait till their more mainstream so the older chips will be reduced in price and POSSIBLY perform just as well?

 

[lemon]

well, when new architecture comes out, you can usually wait about half a year to get the stuff, and it will be compatible with the newer stuff then. but usually, i would wait... i mean hell, i got a pentium 3.0e ghz prescott processor from intel... one of the last socket478 processors they produced. they are on the socket775 now... i have no plans on upgrading anytime soon. vista will run on this bish for now...

 

[Rusteh]

This is the last little bit of information I got off of wikipedia about the new intels...i'm more interested in their release date so that way we can have a true comparison of the conroe's compared to the amd's...and hopefully with all this hype we'll also have some motherboards that will fully utilize both's capabilities.

Laptops

* Merom, first eighth-generation notebook chip, 65 nm, dual-core, 2–4 MiB L2 cache (To be released August 2006)
* Penryn, dual-core, 45 nm shrink of Merom, 3–6 MiB L2
* Perryville, single-core, 45 nm mobile and desktop processor, 2 MiB L2

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Desktops

* Conroe, first eighth-generation desktop chip, 65 nm, dual-core, 4 MiB L2 cache (To be released July 27, 2006)
o Allendale, dual-core, cut-down Conroe with 2 MiB L2
+ Millville, single-core, cut-down Allendale with 1 MiB L2
+ Wolfdale, dual-core, 45 nm shrink of Allendale, with 3 MiB L2
o Kentsfield, quad-core MCM, consists of two Conroes, with 2 × 4 MiB L2 (8 MiB L2)
+ Yorkfield, eight-core MCM, 45 nm, 12 MiB L2, successor to Kentsfield
o Ridgefield, dual-core, 45 nm shrink of Conroe, with 6 MiB L2
* Perryville, single-core, 45 nm mobile and desktop processor, 2 MiB L2

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Servers and workstations

* Woodcrest, first eighth-generation server and workstation chip, 65 nm, dual-core, 4 MiB L2 cache (Released on June 26, 2006)
* Clovertown, quad-core MCM, consists of two Woodcrests, with 2 × 4 MiB L2
* Tigerton, quad-core MCM. MP-capable version of Clovertown.
* Harpertown, either a dual-core, 45 nm shrink of Woodcrest, or an eight-core, 45 nm MCM with 12 MiB L2
* Dunnington, four to thirty-two cores, successor to Tigerton