Bye Bye AMD

[Tee Hee Johnson]

So a 3ghz AMD clock is the same performance as a 2.4ghz C2D clock?
And if we raised that to 3ghz then clock for clock the C2D is quite a bit faster?

Yep... the AMD would get ******

 

[bfar]

I smell a troll.

 

[eracer2006]

my first overclock was amd and it SUCKED!

 

[manveruppd]

My main reasons are that shortly after upgrading to an Athlon 64x2 4400 which ment buying £1000 of kit AMD introduce the AM2 socket and are soon releasing the AM3 socket which makes upgrading a pain.

I used to think like that, remembering back to the "good old days" of Socket A which went on and on for ages and offered a great upgrade path...

But then I sat down and thought about it, and it's a complete lie: ANY socket, both from Intel and AMD, goes through loads of evolution and different iterations, as new, more efficient chipsets come out, and new processors which, despite running on the same socket, the older chipsets can't support. How many people here went through 2, 3, or more Socket A motherboards, simply so they could use faster RAM or the latest chips? Similarly, how many S775 users on here had to change their motherboards to buy into Conroe simply because their old chipsets wouldn't support it?

No platform, from either company, is guaranteed to offer a good upgrade path. At least AMD are making the effort by making Barcelona run on AM2+ as well as AM3, but the truth is, the only way to buy into a platform KNOWING it's going to offer you a modicum of futureproofing is to stay a generation behind the latest hardware so as to buy with the benefit of hindsight!

 

[Mattus]

It's true. My first socket A board, with a Via chipset that couldn't get past 139FSB, was a lot different from the nForce2 board I ended up with.