mainstream america can live w/ a p3 600 to do everything they want.
And I was talking about motherboards (Canterwood anybody?). Read the first post in the thread.Originally posted by: Noid
ZZZZzzzzzzzzz........
Isnt this the MB forum?
Originally posted by: Noid
Your thread should say .. Nforce2 platform...
Your title is misleading also.
The last AMD mb I bought was the AMD 761 chipset. (MSI K7master)
Originally posted by: beenlurkingforyears
A couple of additional points to keep in mind: AMD gives the better 'bang for the buck' and the competition between AMD and Intel has kept the prices down. (I don't want to think about what we'd be paying for CPUs if the competition was like the OS market!)
By buying AMD I get great performance, pay less, and do my part to make sure there is healthy competition.
(Full disclosure: I own stock in AMD, Intel, and MS ;-)
Do a search on Pricewatch for "865PE".Originally posted by: mechBgon
I wish the Canterwood review had an i850E board in it. Comparing Canterwood to i845PE is sort of like comparing a Corvette to an EscortGT... where's the Camaro Z-28? I'm pretty certain that the ranking would go like this:
[*]mostly 1st: Canterwood with 3.0GHz @ 800MHz FSB, dual-DDR
[*]mostly 2nd: i850E with 3.06GHz @ 533MHz FSB, PC1066 RDRAM
[*]very 3rd: i845PE with 3.0GHz @ 800MHz FSB, PC2700
In short, to make Canterwood look great, compare it to a bandwidth-starved platform that's trying to feed an 800MHz-FSB CPU with PC2700. Throw in the platform that the P4 was originally designed for (and vice versa), and maybe it will look a little less dramatic. Not to detract from the merit of Canterwood/Springdale, which will be pretty cool if they reach the ~$150 area or less.
Aha, $99 on up, that's more like it. Intel painted themselves into a corner when they designed the P4 for RDRAM and it looks like they've finally come up with a cost-effective alternative. Wonder how it would do with my favorite WinZip/UT benchmark... if you get an 865 or 875 board, run that benchmark for me, ok?Originally posted by: oldfart
Do a search on Pricewatch for "865PE".Originally posted by: mechBgon
I wish the Canterwood review had an i850E board in it. Comparing Canterwood to i845PE is sort of like comparing a Corvette to an EscortGT... where's the Camaro Z-28? I'm pretty certain that the ranking would go like this:
[*]mostly 1st: Canterwood with 3.0GHz @ 800MHz FSB, dual-DDR
[*]mostly 2nd: i850E with 3.06GHz @ 533MHz FSB, PC1066 RDRAM
[*]very 3rd: i845PE with 3.0GHz @ 800MHz FSB, PC2700
In short, to make Canterwood look great, compare it to a bandwidth-starved platform that's trying to feed an 800MHz-FSB CPU with PC2700. Throw in the platform that the P4 was originally designed for (and vice versa), and maybe it will look a little less dramatic. Not to detract from the merit of Canterwood/Springdale, which will be pretty cool if they reach the ~$150 area or less.
Originally posted by: orion7144
Has anybody seen AMD's earnings for this quarter. Another huge loss and Intel is putting pricing pressure on by reducing their CPU prices and analyst's are betting on Intel significantly reducing flash prices which would hurt AMD even worse.
All depends if they can run legacy software without major problems.
Originally posted by: MARMADUKE
I just bought my 2nd nforce2 8RdA+ with new C1 stepping! CRUSH1-NB & A4-SB combination it is on sale @ egg $94 because the 8rda3 is coming in!
Some of these 8rda's are doing 243 fsb right out of the box without any mods? now you can pick up a tbred 1700+-B @ 2.2Ghz? for $58 to go with this. Total= $152
Now you take the same amount of money and get a intel mobo and cpu and do your mods( tune up your engine!) and I will do mine!
I will add heatsinks active & passive and also do a VDD solder mod and be ready for action @ 250 FSB cause that is as high as the bios will let me go! ( I need new bios that goes up to 300fsb??)
WOW>>> is AMD FUNNNN or what!
Now I dont care what intel mobo and cpu combo you got for $152!, cause I know my rig will really! really! HURT you and BURY you, infact I will give you $200 for your combo and still do a JASON on you!
Canterwood/P4 875 combo?
Gigabyte expects their 8KNXP Ultra to find its way into the U.S. retail channel by the end of April or beginning of May for $385 then add a CPU?.who in there right mind would buy this combo knowing that MY 8RDA+ @ 250 FSB can outperform this combo!...hmmm... Jim Carrey? LMAO
I see something very big coming? the new CRUSH1 & A4 combination does not even get warm when overclocked( I think it can do 400FSB!), need new bios? and this would certainly CRUSH the P4 875
AMD RULES!:beer:
HeheheOriginally posted by: DieHardware
Quit sitting on the fence and give us your opinion!
The real questions with the Opteron and Athlon 64s are whether developers will code in 64bits. If major software distributions such as Windows, Office, a few games, and some other programs are released in 64bit format, then yay for AMD.
However, if all that is available for the cpu's to work with is 32bit, then they won't see the result they were hoping for. High end server ware will undoubtedly be released in 64bit versions, but that doesn't help joe blow computer user so that means AMD loses.
AMD is taking perhaps the biggest risk ever.
They're staking their future on people creating code for 64bit processing.
If that doesn't happen, then bye bye AMD.
If it does, then Intel will have to make a major move.
Either way, give AMD credit, cause its leaps of faith like this that move technology forward.
Originally posted by: touchmyichi
For 200 bucks for amd you get a epox nforce 2 mobo, an athlon 1700+, and 256 of ddr 400 ram. With that setup, you're talking about hitting speeds of up to 2.5ghz, easily outclassing any p4 sold at many times the price and you get to enjoy sound blaster quality audio. AMD just has such great deals.