Well bfdd, looks like your running a pretty fast system there & you come ol'school like me !! Days of Commodore 64, tandy 1000, pentium 66, pentium 100, 266 333, AMD 600, 1.2, 1.8, Athlon 64 3000, & Intel #8400.. There's more but brain cloud has overcast !!!
My point was till AMD stepped up to the plate big time around Athlon 600, intel was dragging it's feet & charging up the yazoo for computer parts...
Competition has brought us better chipset, processors, motherboards, video cards & everything else as they have evolved because of AMD applying competition & bringing us better parts !!
THAT MY FRIEND, is why i say say "GOT US HERE" if you don't agree that's your right, just do it with a open mind & not as a Intel Fan Boy !!
I have a hunch this Quad war is far from over.. The 9850 X4 Blacky is a step in the right direction,, but they still need to get their 45nm process to be more competitive with intel..
Beat the HEAT & OC'n will come..
& this integrated 3200 video chipset & the SB700 south bridge ot these newer motherboards will kick some OEM ass !!
Hope you enjoy your Xeon 3110 system as that's a cool setup !!!! Not to hot on those motherboards though !! Good luck with that !!
Ol'Pal
Originally posted by: bfdd
Got you here? Got you where? Also, Viditor the Black Edition Phenoms from what I understand aren't very cheap are they? I mean sure the Dual cores are but not the Phenoms, not comparable to the Q6600 when you bring up OCing. Also, OLpal I saved up just to build a new AMD rig when the original Athlon came out and was rocking a 800mhz for quite awhile till I upgraded to a slightly faster clocked Duron when those first came out and was OCing that beast. Had an Athlon XP, after that I went back to Intel for a 2.4ghz P4 because I got it free with mobo and ram. First Intel machine since an early P3 my parents bought me.
Also, TRUE QUAD CORE? Lets see they both have 4 functioning cores, they're both single socket solutions. Now the difference comes to how the cores are assembled 4 cores on 1 die or 2 dies with 2 cores each. It's been shown that 4 on 1 die have no real advantage ov erthe Intel design and the intel design quads are faster clock for clock most the time and when you bring up OCing they go much further.