Whos gunner go with a Yonah? Change from AMD to Intel?

Bennah · 27 Mar 2006 at 22:30

Well, its the question atm... Will Yonah make the AMD crowd change to Intel? Well some of them anyways.

2 types of Yonah's (Core Duo) around by the looks of things, T2500 (2GHz) and T2600 (2.16GHz). Not sure about UK prices as of yet. Over the pond you can get also the T2300 (1.67GHz), T2400 (1.83GHz) versions. Pretty cheap as the 1.67GHz version starting about £140. Not bad for a dual core cpu

Bad thing is, shame there is a bad side to this story, is the mobo's. Atm, Ive read that ECS and Aopen are the only ones with boards ready to go. The Aopen i975Xa-YDG going for around the £200 mark. I hope this isnt true and they do go for around £150 or under.

The Aopen will release a skt 479 Core Duo mobo with CF ability but no SLI. Can use a single nvidia card though or ATi card.

Like everything else, there will be fore sure, more board arriving later on, but Im looking forward to see what the Yonah's do in real world tasks by real world people.

Im definatly considering buying a Yonah. Dual core starting off cheap which is always a good thing.

What do you people think? You considering going to the Darkside

welshtom · 27 Mar 2006 at 22:35

think conroe may sway more people..

stigggeh · 27 Mar 2006 at 22:51

Bennah said:
Im definatly considering buying a Yonah. Dual core starting off cheap which is always a good thing.

What do you people think? You considering going to the Darkside

i think i will be staying with the darkside too

(intel that is)

monkeypants · 27 Mar 2006 at 22:51

I'll be getting conroe, but I think I'll play with this Pentium M first, I want 3Ghz.

Dual Xeons soon as well, 4 threads? I thing so!

Back on, I think only serial benchers will get Yonah on the desktop. It's cut down features don't make the 3-4 month advantage over conroe worth it.

Jokester · 27 Mar 2006 at 22:51

Conroe please :cool:

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Jokester

bbreezeuk · 27 Mar 2006 at 23:01

Think ill stick with AMD till socket AM2 comes

Kesnel · 27 Mar 2006 at 23:52

welshtom said:
think conroe may sway more people..

Jokester said:
Conroe please .

Jokester

Agreed.

gary996 · 28 Mar 2006 at 02:24

Got to agree I cant wait to see what Conroe has in store. I just hope it lives up to the hype. Have not upgraded for a while. Was thinking FX60 and either x1900xtx crossfire/7900GTX Sli but have decided to wait.

Kamakazie! · 28 Mar 2006 at 02:45

i'll be getting whatever gives the best performance for my money when i purchase.
that should be the way it is, though we know with a lot of people this isn't the case. If it were, i think AMD would have a much bigger market share than they currently do.
Conroe is looking superb but im waiting on some real benchmarks before going all crazy for it.

Dreadi · 28 Mar 2006 at 09:19

unless i get a high paid job or prices drop like mad my opty with be staying for a while

Bennah · 28 Mar 2006 at 09:32

Conroe is looking good indeed. Defo going to go there I feel, but Im going to try out a Yonah or 2 I think before hand. Try out something different.

The only thing is, that the boards are very limited right now.

MSI have a board. MSI 945GT Speedster Plus. Some initial benchmarks on that look good.

Using watercooling, a super pi 1m time of 22.547 secs can be had @ ONLY 2721MHz :eek:

Linkage

and with a vdimm mod to the board, setting the CL @ 3, a stock Yonah T2600 @ 2157MHz can do a super pi 1m under 28 secs

Linkage

GAMEfreak · 28 Mar 2006 at 09:45

whats the dfferance in features between yonah and conroe?

doodah · 28 Mar 2006 at 11:53

yeah and whats with the socket difference too. why are the Yonahs socket 479?

kwong2005 · 28 Mar 2006 at 12:00

GAMEfreak said:
whats the dfferance in features between yonah and conroe?

yonah is for notebook, n conroe is for desktop... the different i know between them is that yonah does not support 64bit but conroe can...

btw.. as far as i know, only somewhere have stock but hvn't seen any of its motherboard on the market yet

stock 95 - Intel (BX80539T2300) Pentium M T2300 1.66GHz 478 FSB 667 2MB = £165
stock 8 - Intel Pentium M (BX80539T2500) T2500 2.16GHz 478 667 FSB 2MB = £286

div0 · 28 Mar 2006 at 12:11

i'd edit that post - mentioning competitors even with a subtly placed * wont stop you getting warned/banned!

I think the mods will manage to crack your code!!

kwong2005 · 28 Mar 2006 at 12:14

thanks for telling mate, edited post.... you know, i am kind of new in here

Bennah · 28 Mar 2006 at 12:40

dbappa said:
yeah and whats with the socket difference too. why are the Yonahs socket 479?

They are mobile cpu's. Hence why we had to get an adapter if we wanted to use skt 479 Dothan on a dekstop board such as a P4C800 which are skt 478. It seems this time around with Yonah's, there are boards that the cpu would fit right into without the aid of adapters and such like. Would be better this way, offering DDR2 and PCI-E.

Conroe is the desktop offering which is Dual Core and has 2MB cache on each core like the Yonah's. It has blistering quick pace and sure enough get people to change over to the darkside

NathanE · 28 Mar 2006 at 12:47

It's got 4MB L2 shared between both cores

Yonah has 2MB shared.

Bennah · 28 Mar 2006 at 12:58

My bad...

marc2003 · 28 Mar 2006 at 17:14

if i had money to waste on pcs, i'd definitely have a play with a yonah. but i'm sticking with my dothan until it's too slow for what i need to do and that could be some time away yet....