I have been reading up on some reviews on some dualcore systems and i was wondering if ayone can help me out with there opinion. Im trying to decide between a dualcore AMD system or a Dual core INTEL system. Right now im looking at a AMD athlon 64 x2 4400+ in a asus a8n deluxe motherboard with either dual 6600gt's or dual 6800gt's (depends on budget) and 1 gig of pc3200 from mushkin at cas 2-2-2 and 2 80gig sata-2 drives in raid-0 or i was going to go with a intel dualcore system but i havnt found a sli based motherboard to support it with sata-2 support and ddr2 support. Right now i just cant decide which way to go i will probably go with a amd route. But also i was wondering what might benchmark higher between dual 6600gt's dual 6800gt's and a radeon x800xt.

i know ur a noobie but this is the videocard overclocking section, that mihgt belong more in the cpu/mobo section dood

Quote: Originally Posted by DuckWarrior Sorry I cant be more help but there is little amount of info right now. However CPU mag (still on the shelves) has a few articles on the new ones coming. IF you spend the $$ on Intel, get the extreme or its not worth the $$ you spend. Also, given the choice, I would still go with the AMD, the way the info is transferrred beween the two cores the AMD way seems a bit more efficient. I will be purchasing the AMD 4800 myself. But the Intel EE Dual Core has Hyper threading on each core...so that means FOUR CPUs (essentially) on that model Theres never any clear winner is there?

I would go with the AMD 4400, 4800, or FX57. If you can afford it I say get the FX57. If you dont go with the 4400 or 4800 because both of them have 1mb of cache per core. AMD > Intel dual core because AMD connects the two cores right on the chip itself. The Intel connects through the board. After lookin at alot of the reviews the AMD always seems to score alot better.

FX-57 is a single core product, not dual.

And yes, right now the AMD solution is looking a lot better than Intels offering. If its dual core you want then AMD is the way to go until Intel get their act together.

Yeh for temperature the dual core has idle and load lower than a 130nm FX55...for starters thats better. The video cards are good which ever choice you go with dependant on your budget ofcourse. For the specific model, you shold look to the 4400 for bang/buck ratio. The chip has the 1mb cache and is only clocked 200MHz lower than the 4800....overclocking would be a doddle...and I recall a particular review recording a 2.7GHz CPUz screenie? I may be wrong but never the less - AMD is what you should look into.