Quote:The first processors to support the socket AM2 will be new Opteron 100 series processors. The socket is also designed for the following CPU cores: Windsor (AMD Athlon 64 X2, AMD Athlon 64 FX), Orleans (AMD Athlon 64) and Manila (AMD Sempron) - all using 90 nm technology.
But I just realized my X2 is a manchester core. :(
I guess maybe there will be new X2's for the socket AM2. Well that kinda puts a kink in my chain. But lets see... All i'd need is new RAM, MOBO, CPU... So if the X2's are the same price on the AM2 platform(I doubt it, but that's marketing for you) that run me about...
$481 for a x2 4400+
$303 for dual 1G kingston pc6400
$??? Around 100-120??
$900... Geeze, that's how much I spent on my computer now. And that's with the current x2 4400+ price... I think I might let AM2 sit in the market for a while..
Installing world of warcraft, and I got up to 51% cpu usage. Averaging around 20-22, but I'm also surfing the net, and using trillian.
And geeze 5 cd's to install?? Haven't they heard of dvd's??
Quote: The socket is also designed for the following CPU cores: Windsor (AMD Athlon 64 X2, AMD Athlon 64 FX), Orleans (AMD Athlon 64) and Manila (AMD Sempron) - all using 90 nm technology.
Lol, good, I'm not going mad just yet. I'm a little sceptical about how much better DDR2 will make things with the X2s, because I've noticed lots of DDR2 have very high latencies, often as high as 5-5-5-12 and this is expensive memory. At half the speed, and half the latency, I shouldn't think you'd trail too far behind.
When they can, surely?
I'd prefer 400mhz CAS2 to 1000mhz CAS5 - you notice that an operation takes exactly the same amount of time to complete for both of those - 5ns. Plus of course 2GB of CAS2 PC3200 is a lot less than CAS5 PC8000, about half the cost in fact.
