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Iateronmly pretty muched summed up his thoughts on why he wasn't going Conroe a while ago. http://forums.pcapex.com/pcapex_dail...nstead_of.html
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| n00b-ass reviewer Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Nirvana
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | I read that when he posted it, and it seems the only reason is because there isn't a good mATX mobo for the Conroe. Most people don't care about that. I do realize that the Conroe boards are pricey and I hadn't seen one yet that has the capabilities of my 939 DFI. |
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I didn't know if you read it or not. I thought it was actually quite interesting that the SFF/mATX was left out in the cold by Intel.
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| Evil 'Tweaking' Clown Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Pulaski,NY
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | I'm actually looking at the Abit AW9D-MAX, from what I've seen it looks nice, and Abit seems a bit more enthusiastic about getting back into the overclocking/enthusiast market for real this time. The layout for extreme cooling isn't so great, but I also like the gap between the two 16x slots. Coolaler did some testing on it, http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=113633 . I can only hope as I loved the socket A and Socket 478 boards Abit put out, and I've been sitting on a E6600 for awhile looking at a bunch of quirky and not so hot boards.
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| Apex Tech Demi-God | It would be badass if DFI would make a conroe board with all the bells and whistles. I think they would sell relly well, even if they were $300.
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There working on it just one problem. It lacks FSB support of a real DFI LanParty board.
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Actually not that many good full ATX either. But it's all a moot point - I've decided against both the Conroe and AM2 for now. I'm going to keep my 754 mATX going. I'm just going to hold out hope someone will make a good mATX board for the Conroe, or wait til AMD can pull the latex outta their butt and kick Intel's @$$ again. I'd rather keep using half way dated hardware that still works, than make compromises I'll know I'd end up regretting. AM2 = FTL Conroe = FTW. No ifs and or buts about it.
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| A George Orwell fan...sorta Join Date: May 2003 Location: "Truth is not determined by majority vote."
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Actually this acticle didn't help me much (well, except for quick reference) since I already learned this info from you before, lol. Nice job putting it all down "on paper" though. |
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| Apex Tech Maniac Supreme Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Hiding in the dark, stealing your secrets...
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Conroe is definitely the performance king, but AMD is the only company worth considering for people who can't shell out more than $150 for the CPU alone. College students who have to pay for gas and a social life along with tuition and living expenses would be part of that demographic. A mark of a good system is how it provides for those who live the hard life, and I believe that AMD's position of making higher quality computing available at lower prices is more important than Intel's position of making higher quality computing available only for those above a certain income. Good stuff $SOLID$, although I'm sticking with my 939 until sometime in '07. I hope to see you punch up another quality analysis then. |
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| n00b-ass reviewer Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Nirvana
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Yes, you can pick up an AMD rig pretty cheap but it all boils down to price vs performance. What are you willing to spend up front to ensure that you have at list some "future-proof" buffer zone. I would rather spend a little extra today to hold me off for a while than to buy cheap today and buy cheap again tomorrow. The same principle applies to any hardware component you purchase; you buy HDD capacity for what you need in the future and not just what you need right now. Now, I'm not saying that Conroe is the way to go right now, every individual needs to decide how much computing power they can afford. Given the apps available right now AMD could very well be the price / performance leader. I don't really understand Hibiki's comment about "higher quality computing" though. When you can get an Intel processor for under $190 that easily overclocks and performs on par with an AMD processor costing over $800, how is that lower quality computing? That's the same argument we had for the AMD Athlon against Intel when the Athlon was released. I know there is a lot of bias against Intel in the enthusiast community. Hell, I hadn't purchased an Intel processor before this Conroe since around 1998. I had a couple of hand-me-down Intel systems, but they were just platforms for testing heatsinks and weren't able to perform like my AMD rigs. If you put blinders on and depend more on the company name for purchases instead of the actual price vs performance, you will miss out on an awful lot of great deals. |
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It looks good in the Anandtech review. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2829 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pimp-of-all-Pimps | Can you Digg it?! The_Pope from Bit-tech was kind enough to post that Digg for us. He is high in the user ranks over at Digg so it is essentially a headstart on Diggs. Be sure to go by and give it a dig and spread the Digg link to others! |
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| Apex Tech Fanatic | Alright Necro, help me out here, out of this list which would you recommend for my asus A8n deluxe? Been an intel guy forever so I do not comprehend AMDs..but with prices dropping why not try one right?
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| Apex Tech Maniac | Just to bring up something that was a bit earlier in the thread: IIRC, reverse hyperthreading has been shown to be 100% fake, as in someone dreamed it up, posted a blog about it, and then it sort of caught fire and echoed around a bit before cooler heads prevailed. Give me a minute, and I'll try to dig up the article. ::EDIT:: here you go: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060713-7263.html That being said, nice writeup, Necro. As always you are impeccably thorough. OH, one more question, I realize that the EE processors may not have great OC results, but they might still be an option for quiet(er) computing, right?
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| PCApex Reviewer From Hell Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sunnydale
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | I love my Intel Core Duo. Thanks Cpt. :-) The Intel "BadAxe" mobo isn't my favorite but it's still a good board. I've got a 7950GX2 heading my way :-) As far as the AMD pricing goes, I think the deal is the X2 4800 for $291. I paid almost $900 for mine a year ago. Link here :-) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103544
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