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Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 070709 Julian Simioni wrote: |
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>> Since Core 2 Duos are so inexpensive |
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>> and will easily outperform and use less power than an Athlon64, |
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>> why stick with AMD ? My 4300, which I bought a few weeks ago for $ 110 , |
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>> is the slowest Core 2 Duo, but would probably perform similarly |
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>> if not outperform either of the AMD processors you listed. |
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>> Intel is going to be announcing some nice price cuts on the 22nd: |
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>> esp Q6600, a 2.4GHz quad-core part will be available for a mere $ 266 . |
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> I just checked my usual store's site & prices have dropped dramatically |
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> (that's in the last few hours!), so the AMD 6000+ is now reasonable: |
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> it needs 125 W , but hopefully that's not too much; |
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> it's rated at 3 GHz with 2 x 1 MB L2 cache ; price CAD 197 . |
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> As for Intel, the 4300 is rated at 1,8 GHz & costs CAD 140 , |
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> while the Q6600 costs CAD 610 , way beyond my limit. |
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> So I'm inclined to stay with AMD, which has worked well since 2003. |
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If you have to buy right now, there's no way around the fact that the |
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Core 2 Duo's are just a better chip. Better performance across the |
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board for less wattage (lower power usage and the machine runs cooler). |
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AMD is barely staying competitive right now by aggressively slashing |
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prices to keep its chips close in price/performance ratio. If you |
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really want to buy AMD, you may be better off waiting for Barcelona in |
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August. Don't get me wrong, I love AMD. Almost all of my machines at |
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home have AMD inside, but they're listing along with an old architecture |
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(The Dual-Core K8 chips were first released in August 2005, K8 itself |
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was sometime 2003). |
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The other nice thing about Intel + Linux right now is open source |
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drivers (assuming you aren't a gamer and thus in need of one of the |
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NVidia discrete graphics cards) |
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Back in April (2 price-cuts ago), I got myself the following: |
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(All prices CAD, tax not incl.) |
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114.38 - Antec NSK1300 (mATX case + PSU) |
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169.99 - 2x1GB Corsair DDR2-667 RAM |
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112.70 - ASRock Conroe 1333-DVI/H Motherboard (mATX, PCI-E, onboard |
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Intel 945G graphics, onboard sound, GBLAN) |
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243.10 - Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 (1.86Ghz, 1066 FSB, 2MB Cache) |
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DVD-ROM and Harddrive (some SATA 200GB drive) were scrounged from |
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amongst existing machines. |
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Right now I've got 64bit Fedora 7 on it, but the machine absolutely |
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flies at everything I use it for. Eventually I'll find time to run |
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Gentoo on it and tinker with E17. And yes, the 2GB RAM is probably |
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overkill since I've never actually taken it all that close to filling up |
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RAM let alone swapping to disk. |
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Seriously, give the Core2's another look. |
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Hope this helps, |
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O. |
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