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AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core Chips Released
HaloPhreak writes "InformationWeek reports today that AMD has released the Athlon 64 X2 for the high end desktop. Intel and AMD have been competing to get these out as soon as possible, but I think it will be interesting to see what AMD will do with the mobile version of this processor, due out in 2006." From the article: "Both companies have been in a tight race to deliver the processors since engineers realized that simply ratcheting up the clock speed of single-core chips was creating too much heat and not producing the same improvements seen in previous models."
Does this have built-in trusted computing/DRM technology like the newest Intel chips?
After all, I am strangely colored.
With it's lower power consuption than the Intel chips, and lower heat than expected from an AMD chip of this sort, it's definitely a reason to save up.
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At almost double the price of the latest Intel chips, how can AMD stay competitive? AMD has always had the lower priced chips, and developed a loyal following of "price/performace" fans. What now?
It's somewhat like a car engine then. You can't just keep driving the one engine harder and harder with higher octane fuel and expect everything to be alright. If you want to really shift up to the next level of performance you actually have to add some new hardware to it (more cylinders, better transmission, etc...).
However, you also can't expect to continually achieve better results without some problems by just throwing another engine into the car either.
Meanwhile, Intel's desktop dual core chips seem to offer much more aggressive pricing at this time. AMD's lowest price dual core chip, the X2 4200 is almost twice as expensive as Intel's lowest cost dual core processor. However, an interview with three AMD execs on PCPerspective.com claims that "AMD would eventually have lower priced Athlon X2 processors via the waterfall effect in the future".
Drop KDE/GNOME. They have both become too bloated for everyday use. There's a lot of excellent "lightweight" desktop enviroments and window managers: i reccomend XFCE (4.2.2). It's like Gnome after 6 months of workout and strict diet.
That's because windows is reserving the rest for the AGP aperture. Try changing the AGP aperture size and see if the amount of free memory changes.
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-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3."
through it:
Yoda said that, not Spock.
Dr. Spock was a child psychologist, who was never said to utter that phrase. Spock was a character in the Star Trek TV series that featured "stardates", though Kirk called him "Mr. Spock" in traditional naval parlance.
Stardates don't have dashes, they have dots.
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You can't compare "lowest priced CPU" to "lowest price CPU". That's like saying 15 lbs of apples at $5 is a better deal than 30 lbs of oranges at $8. $5 $8 so it must be a better deal. [rolls eyes]
Look at the specs of the lowest priced A64-X2 and compare those specs to the lowest priced PD. You'll noticed that the performance of the A64-X2 is a lot higher than that of the PD.
Work your way up Intel's price chart until you find a PD or even PEE CPU that has similar performance to that of the lowest priced A64-X2. Compare the prices of those two, and you'll find the AMD CPU is a better deal.