FX-62 Or X6800, your choice?

coaster1990 · December 28th, 2006, 01:52 AM

x6800,
if you have enough money

Fenriss · January 21st, 2007, 04:36 AM

speaking as someone who's had all the Flavors of Athlon: Slot A, Socket A, 940, 939 and AM2.... Go w/ the X6800.
i've developed a distaste for AMD's recent habit of introducing new chipsets to go w/ new gen of High End CPUs. @ least with Intel, you can go w/ single, dual and quad core, and all can be used w/ a LGA775.

IModIntel · January 21st, 2007, 08:43 AM

Naw, man....

The fastest CPU?

Here in Montreal you can find all sorts of stuff in the garbage. I found an Intel 486 Overdrive DX 66mhx CPU still in it's original packaging..

blkthorne · January 24th, 2007, 06:39 PM

The E6600 is hands down the most ridiculous processor to offer for 300 bucks. The performance is so outrageous that AMD I'm sure has rethought their strategy many times over (and probably a change of underwear as well). With it's superb overclocking headroom, there really is no reason to buy C2D above this speed (stock 2.4ghz) unless you have to get a quad proc

. It has the full 4mb cache, you can't go wrong. I'm dead serious, although I admit I did jump to the AMD bandwagon for a year or two because of the integrated memory controller, this C2D series brought me right back home to the warm fuzzy feeling of the P3 days.

P.S. IModIntel may your garbage findings yield more NIB relics from 1993! Play some dos games via serial null modem link play or 10baseT BNC ring networks with wacky 50ohm terminators :P

Unixlord · January 24th, 2007, 11:48 PM

I'll keep buying AMD until something tips the balance in their favor and they become the desktop monopoly. When that happens I'll jump to intel. No monopolies thanks. There's a great deal of stuff in store for socket AM2. Intel will soon be forced to copy AMD and use HT.

Shin_Mike · January 27th, 2007, 02:46 AM

none, both too expensive!

Jagur · January 27th, 2007, 02:34 PM

Very satisfied with my 3800+ running at 2.7 ghz now... sure the C2D is a better chip at this point, but two problems come to mind.

#1: Chipsets. Compared to nVidia or ATI chipsets I can't stand Intel based mobos. Can't OC them for s***, usually less stable or simply lacking in features.

#2: Barcelona. Just like C2D is doing now, AMD's "true" quad core with shared L2 cache will probably blow Intel's quad core out of the water. Intel made the mistake of simply lumping two cores together the first time around and we saw how that sucked, now they're doing it again with their quad core simply because they want to be first to market, and I'm not buying.

In response to an earlier gripe about AMD coming out with new sockets every time a new series is released... well, we should be able to toss these new quad cores in existing AM2 boards, then upgrade to AM2+ or possibly AM3 boards without changing the chip. Since I change boards far more often than chips, this is the only compelling reason I've seen yet to switch to a DDR2 board. Though honestly I'll probably wait for HT3 before building a new core system.

Unixlord · January 27th, 2007, 02:53 PM

Interesting post and nice OC. Personally my next upgrade will be a next generation graphics card plus AMD's conroe killer.

S31Kronos · January 27th, 2007, 02:54 PM

Hey, I jumped the amd bandwagon last year, and the gaming performance has been awesome. However, it's the encoding and multi-tasking that I missed from my p4 prescott 3.0ghz cpu. From everything I've read, the core2 duos outperform anything amd has not just by a little, but by a huge margin. Gaming, encoding, multi-tasking, your best bet would be the 6600. I just ordered mine along with the asus p5n32-sli premium motherboard, 2 gigs of corsair 6400 c4 xtreme performance ddr-2 ram and a zalman cnps9500 heatsink (I just love tax time hehe). I've read many places people getting well over 3 ghz on air cooling, and with the thermaltake armor I already own and it's great airflow, I'm going to see what I can get.

Jagur · January 27th, 2007, 04:00 PM

Thanks Unixlord, I just recently got this new board and can honestly say it's the best overclocker I've yet tested. The same chip in my old Abit KN8-SLI would only reach 5.5 ghz, of course it was using an entirely different strategy (315 HTT @ 8x Multi).

As it stands, I can probably go higher... my ram used to run at 506 mhz with the same timings as this, and now it's at 448, so there's more room to go. I'm just letting it run a day or two between 5 mhz bumps of the HTT and testing stability for now.

Totally in agreement with you about the next gen graphics... R600 should be the shiznit, long live AMD/ATI!