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A First Look at AMD's M2 Platform
Knight Thrasher writes to tell us that Tom's Hardware has an interesting first look at AMD's AM2 platform. From the article: "While Intel will be answering later this year with its Merom/Conroe processors, AMD officially says that the introduction of its AM2 platform and DDR2 memory support in the second quarter of this year will be able to maintain its current lead. Unofficially, we know that AMD will launch six dual-core and two single-core AM2 processors on June 6 - later than initially expected but well in time for Intel's Conroe, which will be introduced in September. Tom's Hardware got its hands on a stable engineering sample of an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ for Socket AM2 and will publish benchmark results as first as a first impression of the new Socket and processors tomorrow."
I have a P4 2400 with 512 mb DDR1, and an AGP 4x slot. And I have no need to upgrade, except maybe buy some cheap 1 gb RAM to play with. I mean, what's the point? I will hardly notice any difference. When AMD release some 4x CPUs and their dualcores get cheaper... Or Intel's for that matter... Then, maybe, I will think about upgrading, but right now, its just completely pointless for me. The only thing that's troubling me is that I will have to buy an AGP card (maybe it will be a 6600gt) if I want to play some modern games...