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Encryptedmind at 05:30pm 05/28/2006
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FS Please Please! keep this old interface for posting user
comments!
There was a benchmark carried out between s754 Sempron 3000+ and
sAM2 Sempron 3000+ and the s754 Sempron came out on top most of the
time!
hkepc.com/hwdb/am2sempron-1.htm
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Anonymous at 08:21pm 05/27/2006
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socket 939 has had long and glorious run. Maybe I sound like a
fanboy, but I think it has been impressive.
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Anonymous at 03:12pm 05/25/2006
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Yes, I do, but people on this thread are talking about how well it
performs overclocked by almost double! I doubt that quiet/cool/low
power use will still apply.
I'll stay openminded, but I am sick of overclocking (including my
video cards). If an unclocked conroe beats a 5000+ and has a
favorable price point, I'm in.
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Ummm... you do realize that the Conroe is NOT based from the P4, but
rather an evolution of the well regarded (quiet/cool/low power use)
Core Duo (that evolved from the Pentium M... that evolved from the
Pentium III, etc.). "
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Tarx (View my Profile) at 06:51pm 05/24/2006
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"To heck with conroe! I will not have another loud, power
hungry,
flaky, often BSOD, half-lived, heavily overclocked piece of rubbish
next to my desk."
Ummm... you do realize that the Conroe is NOT based from the P4, but
rather an evolution of the well regarded (quiet/cool/low power use)
Core Duo (that evolved from the Pentium M... that evolved from the
Pentium III, etc.).
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Anonymous at 02:29pm 05/24/2006
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To heck with conroe! I will not have another loud, power hungry,
flaky, often BSOD, half-lived, heavily overclocked piece of rubbish
next to my desk. It's over, I'm done with it. Enjoy yourself.
I'll take the 5000+ and a single 7900gt, thanks much.
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deimos47 at 02:06pm 05/24/2006
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#23.
Yeah, I gotta admit this socket change is not typical for AMD.
Afterall, SocketA lasted for years and years, to even include 64 bit
Semprons. Nevertheless, I'm not sure what point you are trying to
make. You WILL need new memory and new motherboard, and the chip
itself if upgrading to Conroe, too. Intel is much much bad less
flexible with the CPU-mobo support. Starting from i865/i875, through
all their PCIE, users and/or motherboard manufacturers went through
many VRM and socket revisions. And just when you thought, Intel
would have settled on something for a few months, they would
introduce a new stepping which would either require a new BIOS for a
few forward-thinking boards, or a completely new motherboard...
ofcourse none of this is a problem for joe consumer, because the
folks making the pre-built system went through all the trouble.
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MrWizard6600 (View my Profile) at 08:51pm 05/23/2006
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wow im sorry and i am responding to my own reply. i dont know what i
was smoking but im done...
"Hanging" not "handing". "Those
swords..." not "the Swords are...".
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MrWizard6600 (View my Profile) at 08:38pm 05/23/2006
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"..."
what does that mean! is there more to this artical! i demand to see
it! dont leave me handing!
this is probibly going to be a real revolution, because both amd and
intel are looking at eachother square in the eyes with these too
platforms. the are swords meant to cross.
this is AMDs temporary solution, and an extra 15FPS in QUAKE 4 isnt
bad at all. will conroe persue? will conroe pull ahead? intels PR
certianly seems to think so.
-we demand ANSWERS!
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sardukar at 07:55pm 05/23/2006
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1680x1050 for widescreen games and 1280x1024 for 4:3 only games!
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Wallshadows (View my Profile) at 07:25pm 05/23/2006
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Be it as it may, the AM2 socket might shake off the performance
issues with later revisions and new processors. Right now, they are
just getting their feet wet with the new socket.
DDR modules, like stated in the article, are starting to age. Now
with faster speeds, tighter timings and lower prices (unless rambus
gouges the market for DDR2) it would only be logical to update,
bringing with that the new HT 3.0 technology and you have a
significant bandwidth upgrade for applications.
AMD just does not want to be forced to deal with limited BW and, if
not now, sometimes in the near future would have had to upgrade
their systems before they would be so far behind in the processor
market.
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