exindguy said:
epsilon72 said:
Sqrl said:
Oh you mean, exactly what I've been telling people for months...
Its almost as if I've built hundreds of computers and know from experience...oh wait I have.... This is precisely why AMD is the better choice right now, because high end CPUs (where intel rules) are pretty much worthless unless you're doing lots of video encoding or other CPU intensive tasks...which gaming simply isn't. Even high end physics engines don't really push the AMD X2s until you really start to do some crazy stuff with the editor. |
I got kind of turned off by AMD's constant socket shuffling though. Are they planning on "upgrading" to make AM2+ obsolete any time soon? I agree that buying quad cores for gaming is a waste of money though. Looking at the article it looks like you'll be totally rockin' with a 2.66 Core 2 Duo. |
I'm with you: their schizophrenia on socket updates got to be so bad that they drove me to Intel after being an AMD-only guy for about 8 years. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM3
According to this, socket AM3 is due out by the end of the year. What's with the yearly upgrades to sockets? Is AMD trying to kill itself?
Anyways, the AM3 processors will supposedly be compatible with AM2 boards. We shall see.
Even though there's a fairly large performance gap between AMD and Intel, AMD would be nice if this socket mess gets straightened out because an AMD chip + mobo costs a lot less than an Intel chip + mobo.
