seen the price of 64 x2 6000+ lately?

[McBunny]

just had a price cut now £155 thats really quite cheap

 

[Rasclart]

Intel PWNS AMD

 

[V1NNY]

quad core

 

[McBunny]

oh i agree but a 50% price cut isnt bad lol

 

[Chris1.4RT]

I'm thinking of upgrading soon.

Is there any real point to dual core? Would it speed up games or is it, like I think, so you can do something in the background like burn a dvd while playing a game, ie one core per task?
Would a 4400 chip be just as quick in a game as a x2 4400 chip?

Just wondering why the need for 4 cores on a home pc?

 

[biojo]

prolly cos its cheper to bolt another chip into it then make the chip twice as fast

 

[Rasclart]

oh i agree but a 50% price cut isnt bad lol

Just messing fella. That is a fantastic price for a serious piece of kit really. I have nothing agaisnt AMD, until the Dual Core Intels I used AMD

 

[wozzaa]

I'm thinking of upgrading soon.

Is there any real point to dual core? Would it speed up games or is it, like I think, so you can do something in the background like burn a dvd while playing a game, ie one core per task?
Would a 4400 chip be just as quick in a game as a x2 4400 chip?

Just wondering why the need for 4 cores on a home pc?

Games are now starting to use dual cores so you get an benefit ca be as much as an 80% increase in performance. Reason they dont make faster single cores is basically we have reached a limit with current tech when you start making it faster heat increases and unless you all want to switch to watercooling its just not logical to keep ramping up speeds plus multiple processing is faster anyway on applications designed to take advantage of it.

Plus processor speeds reflecting performance are a bit daft. As the new 2.6ghz intel core2duo chips outperform the old 3.6ghz P4 chips.

 

[The Hoff]

oh i agree but a 50% price cut isnt bad lol

A 6000+ (£147) will put in similar benches to a C2D E6700 (£300+). Only problem being the AMD is stretched to the max, no OCing to be had at all.

The flipside to the coin is you can get a C2D E4300 for £95, and OC it stupidly quickly.

I just wish AMD would pull their finger out of thir fking sore arseholes and see the masses of it's former users (like me) who are stuck on socket 939 crying out for a 6000+. I'll be buggered if im going to upgrade to AM2, just so I can buy their latest chips.

They're taking a serious beating though, and by the time they drop their production to 55nm, Intel will be onto 45nm and their next architecture - It's a long way back for AMD me thinks.

 

[BenWall]

Holly that is cheap, do that have a 939 of that? Cant afford it now the car has decided to not play ball.

 

[The Hoff]

No like I said, they've completely forgotten about us all on S939, fking annoying as I'd buy one tomorrow, but im not willing to buy an AM2 board and a CPU given that AM2 isn't exactly the future.

 

[wozzaa]

939 is dead. bit like 940 before it and 754 before that. AM3 will be out in the next few months as well.

 

[The Hoff]

Wozzaa, it's not dead at all. Some recent survey I looked at on a PC forum shown that 49% of AMD users were still using 939 - Now if AMD can't address those users waiting to upgrade with their latest incarnation of chips then it's pretty obvious why they are going downhill fast. As it stands they will lose that 49% of people to Intel's C2D platform.

 

[BenWall]

as the hoff says, 939 is not dead. Cant believe am3 is coming out too, they say 'upgrade to am2 and that will future proof you' but obviously not.