Return of the AMD

[JGBR]

Hello

In my household me and my Dad have always have a competition of him running an AMD/ATI setup V me with an Intel/Nvidia lineup.

Hes getting pretty upset that AMD are getting there chronometers kicked by Intel Core 2, im holding him off from moving (I like the compo of AMD v Intel) , when are we likely to see a chipset, motherboard and CPU's from AMD to era in there new challenge to Intel!?

I can probably hold him of till end of the year!

Any thoughts on when a decent level compeition will return at a reasonable price

 

[lee87]

I think the AMD Barcelona cpu's are to be released in Q3 of this year which is probably between July - September.

 

[Gashman]

Hello

In my household me and my Dad have always have a competition of him running an AMD/ATI setup V me with an Intel/Nvidia lineup.

Hes getting pretty upset that AMD are getting there chronometers kicked by Intel Core 2, im holding him off from moving (I like the compo of AMD v Intel) , when are we likely to see a chipset, motherboard and CPU's from AMD to era in there new challenge to Intel!?

I can probably hold him of till end of the year!

Any thoughts on when a decent level compeition will return at a reasonable price

whats this intel/NVIDIA system core clock speed?

 

[Corasik]

I think the AMD Barcelona cpu's are to be released in Q3 of this year which is probably between July - September.

Perhaps, but arnt the first Barcelona's going to be server parts, using a different socket. Dual core, and quad core desktop parts coming later?

Should be interesting to watch, and the quads should be good, as intel's quads are still dual die, linked by FSB. The dual cores though, probably much closer to intel performance than AMD would like, otherwise i suspect there would be a lot of 'leaked' benchmarks.

Best I've seen from AMD so far is a quote saying that the Barcelona quad, is 70% faster than a dual core Opteron. Well that sounds about 'right' for the dual to quad switch, and doesnt really leave much spare for C2D bashing.

 

[jaykay]

the agena core is amd quad for desktop
if you want to keep the competetion fair you could get the kuma core which just the k10 design with 2 cores plus it has 2mb of l3 cache