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Penryn question...

Arterion

Arterion

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In the same way that an Agena on the standard AM2 socket will be 'limited' to that platforms HT speed and DDR2 memory, are there any drawbacks to getting a current DDR2/P35 board (in my case, likely an Asus P5K-e) and eventually plonking a Penryn in it?

Still trying to figure out which of these chips is gonna be better for me!
 
Arterion said:
In the same way that an Agena on the standard AM2 socket will be 'limited' to that platforms HT speed and DDR2 memory, are there any drawbacks to getting a current DDR2/P35 board (in my case, likely an Asus P5K-e) and eventually plonking a Penryn in it?

Still trying to figure out which of these chips is gonna be better for me!
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What do you mean by 'eventually plonking a Penryn in it?'


Are you planning on buying a P5K-e and a Core2Duo for now then buy a Wolfdale/Yorkfield CPU when they come out?
 
Azza said:
What do you mean by 'eventually plonking a Penryn in it?'


Are you planning on buying a P5K-e and a Core2Duo for now then buy a Wolfdale/Yorkfield CPU when they come out?
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Pretty much :) Although aren't Penryn's due out first? Or is that just the name of that processor family?
 
Arterion said:
Pretty much :) Although aren't Penryn's due out first? Or is that just the name of that processor family?
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Penryn is the name that has been given to this collection of CPUs that are going to be apart of this new die shrink to 45nm.

But Penryn is actually the successor to the Merom core that is used in mobile CPUs. There are going to be desktop variants of it, Wolfdale - Dual Core and Yorkfield - Quad core.


At this moment in time Intel are obviously the hot favourties to choose becasue of what they have done with this Core architecture and AMD havnt really shown anything with Agena and what they have shown hasnt been all to impressive. But AMD have done it before with the Athlon 64 CPUs so they may do it again.

But if I was to plan a major upgrade/complete new PC at this point in time I would have course go with Intel because the Penryn CPUs can only get better than what the Core 2 Duos are like now.
 
Thanks for that Azza, although it doesn't really answer my original question ;) will the forthcoming Wolfdale/Yorkfield chips suffer at all from being run on current P35 boards?
 
Arterion said:
Thanks for that Azza, although it doesn't really answer my original question ;) will the forthcoming Wolfdale/Yorkfield chips suffer at all from being run on current P35 boards?
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No.

P35 was designed for the 1333mhz CPUs and the upcoming 45nm Wolfdale and Yorkfield CPUs.
 
Azza said:
No.

P35 was designed for the 1333mhz CPUs and the upcoming 45nm Wolfdale and Yorkfield CPUs.
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Yeh that what i though. I bought it in the knowledge that it was designed to run the up and coming penryn dual/quad core cpu's.
 
680i boards should work with Penryn as well.

Sort you're sig out dUcKy, you can only have 4 lines of text OR an image and 1 line of text.

Jokester
 
dUcKy said:
Not trying to hijack, but I assume the same will hold true for the 680i chipset?
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Yeah as Jokester said 680i boards can make use of Wolfdale and Yorkfield. :)
 
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