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AM2 Testing at THG

I just read the THG review myself. There is virtually no difference, but when there is the 939s outperformed AM2 more often than not. Think i'll probably be sticking to 939 for at least the next 12-18 months.
 
man_from_uncle said:
I just read the THG review myself. There is virtually no difference, but when there is the 939s outperformed AM2 more often than not. Think i'll probably be sticking to 939 for at least the next 12-18 months.
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yep same here dont see the point in upgradeing to am2 yet
 
Im not goin to upgrade either im more than happy with my computer, does everything i want fine at the moment. I think AM2 is more marketing than anything else.
 
the tdp is lower, im not sure what it is (something thermal or power wise?) but if its lower it menas itl overclock better right? looking back at the mobile bartons the 35w and the 45w versions, more often that not the 35w would overclock better, right?
 
I think I'll wait until they are released yet, I don't really read much into THG reviews, besides, I've also seen other reviews which say the shift to DDR2 has made a noticeable difference, so bit of conflicting reviews there...

Not too long to wait to be honest and if you already have a top end 939 setup then I can't see why you'd need the upgrade. Not as if 754 suddenly became slow and unuseable on the release of 939.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
I think I'll wait until they are released yet, I don't really read much into THG reviews, besides, I've also seen other reviews which say the shift to DDR2 has made a noticeable difference, so bit of conflicting reviews there...

Not too long to wait to be honest and if you already have a top end 939 setup then I can't see why you'd need the upgrade. Not as if 754 suddenly became slow and unuseable on the release of 939.
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the reviews for ddr2 were on intels systems yeah?
meh some of still old skol with our mobile bartons :)
 
How can people judge whether or not to get an AM2 athlon based on a PRE-PRODUCTION hardware which doesn't even run with DDR2-800 memory! The FINAL motherboard products that the manufacturers come up with and the polished final CPU, memory etc.. will surely be what you should be waiting to look at before being so quick to judge the AM2! Seems barmy to me and I hope some of you will be eating ** words when it is finally released :)
 
As stated above; don't draw direct performance comparisions until much close to launch, then the final chip design/tweaks have been completed.

The main reason AMD (and therefore the consumers) are switching to DDR2 is due to the price dropping. By the end of the year it will be cheaper than DDR1, which means all the large system builders will be using AM2 rather than 939.
 
What a joke review tbh.

Why were they running DDRII-667 at DDR-II-400 speeds?

You can blatently see from the bandwidth results that its DDR2-400 that they are using, because the bandwidth is similar to DDR-400. DDR2-667 should have a bandwidth of near 10.6GB/s NOT 5.8GB/s. So they are testing an revision F chip with ram at DDR2-400 (4-4-4-12) latency against a s939 chip with DDR-400 (2-2-2-5) latency. That's right, double the latency!
 
HI,

That doesn't sound good really. In essence what kind of speed increase can we expect when the right memory and latencies are available?

Thanks
Raja
 
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