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

[Bennah]

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

 

[Bennah]

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 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

 

[Bennah]

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

 

[Bennah]

My bad...

 

[Bennah]

Thought that my self, but dont think Intel would affect the benchies that much tbh. If they would have had a system from AMD, I think that would have been tweaked, not saying the Intel one was a little bit. Who knows. But from the results produced, tweaked or not tweaked AMD fell quite abit short of the Conroe

 

[Bennah]

Just a waiting game I guess atm. The worrying thing is though, I hope they arnt too expensive when they do arrive. Something @ £150 and under is ok I suppose, but nothing @ £200 mark like what Custom PC say.. I hope they are wrong...