Intel Dual Core

[easyrider]

I'm glad someone here has finally realised that intel have some good offerings, the 920 is an oustanding chip i think, pair it with the asus 955/975 board and you're away - Also ddr2 is starting to get better and better. People are getting 8k orso in sandra.

The 900 series is nothing more than a slight improvement on the 800 series.


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give me an x2/165/170 any day

 

[easyrider]

At these speeds the Intel is a good buy at £182 for 920 compared to £217 for an X2 3800.

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tbh are you comparing an overclocked 920 with a stock x2 3800?

Because an x2 3800 @ 2.8ghz would perform better than the 920 you mentioned any day of the week imo

 

[james32]

The full review can be found at Xbitlabs.[/QUOTE]

That Screenshot Is the 3.46GHZ 1066 bus 955Xe cpu clocked to 4ghz
not a 920, that 955xe chip still belts out over 130 watts a stock never mind @ 4ghz.

 

[wam7]

@easyrider
Obviously if one is referring to stock speeds the X2 wins hands down... we are not talking about stock speeds so why link to TH. We are talking about comparative speeds at what tends to be the average maximum overclock. I compare the 920 & X2 3800 as they are the lowest & nearest priced DC chips.

As stated a 920 seems to go to around 4.1/4.2Ghz with a moderate voltage increase. X2 3800 don't normally do 2.8 more like 2.4 - 2.6. An Opteron will more likely get to 2.8 but that will now set you back £250+.

I asked people on here to run a sinlge threaded video encoding test a little while ago. Opterons at 3Ghz were scoring 80fps, my friends 930 @ 4.4Ghz scored 93fps.

My central premise is that an overclocked X2 3800 will not always out perform an overclocked 920 "any day of the week". It will vary. I'd guess games may be still faster but for video (which I do most of) I dare say Intel has regained it's crown.

@james32
I posted the screen shots so that people could extrapolate. A 920 running at 4.2Ghz is not going to be vastly different from a 3.46Ghz 955XE @ 4.2Ghz . The 955XE has HT but this may only give a very slight increase when using multi threaded programs.

Obviously the Intel gives out more watts but this is not half as bad as the Prescott's, which is why people can now reach 4.1Ghz on stock voltage and decent air cooling.

Just in case you missed my point. When it comes to running an overclocked PC, with what you can reasonably expect to get out of the Intel/AMD processors. then the decision is not as clear cut as it used to be.

 

[juno_first]

my intel 830 PD 3ghz could run at 4ghz in single core but only reach 3.3 in dualcore.
At 4ghz singlecore it ran 3dmk05 faster, lol.
The Intel was quick in Windows but the AMD seams quicker in games, I wonder why ?.