AMD Bumps Up Socket AM2 Launch Date 234
Thrill-Ki1l writes "According to DailyTech AMD has moved up the launch date for their new socket AM2 processors. The manufacturers of the new AM2 chipsets and motherboards have their hardware ready to ship early so AMD decided to launch the chips 2 weeks early. The new launch date is May 23rd."
For those who don't know about it... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Too many sockets!!! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Is it really worth it? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Too many sockets!!! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Too many sockets!!! (Score:5, Informative)
The 'old' 468-pin is just that--the OLD socket. Meaning, it's a completely different chip altogether.
AMD has had some issues with sockets lately, I will grant you that. But Intel has been behind the 8-ball for a while now. AMD is now the innovator, and they are just playing catchup.
Re:Too many sockets!!! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:condolences (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Too many sockets!!! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why bother? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Way to go Apple! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Is it really worth it? (Score:3, Informative)
Early indications are that Intel's architechtural improvements with Conroe will give them a significant edge over AM2 chips, even though AMD still has an on-die memory controller and Intel doesn't.
"Also, the latency on the memory will likely also increase which might cancel all gains made from the increased speed."
They'll be using 667 and 800 mhz clock speeds, so it won't be too bad, but the gains from the extra memory bandwidth aren't as big as one might expect. At least for AMD.
"Therefore, I'm waiting and seeing before I get me one of those."
Sound advice for any pre-launch situation.
I'm going to take the wait-and-see approach as well, but so far looks like I'll be continuing my pattern. My last few computers have been Pentium II, Athlon, Pentium 4, and Athlon 64.
Though I rarely get top-of-the-line chips, so if AMD cuts the prices for their high-end stuff when Intel has faster parts, that might make them preferable even if Intel holds the performance crown at the time.
I mostly want dual cores and hardware-supported virtrualization so I can run OpenBSD under Xen. Both AM2 and Conroe will have that, so it's pretty much a question of who gives me the best performance.
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Re:Is it really worth it? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:condolences (Score:2, Informative)
AMD's Socket 754 to Outlast Socket 939 [dailytech.com]
Re:Way to go Apple! (Score:4, Informative)
Intel still hasn't figured out the whole "let's go MP" part yet either. While they are doing things like L2 sharing to speed up proccesses in the same dual-core part (which is a mixed blessing though) they are still using the single-FSB to do MP.
Tom
Re:Why, exactly? (Score:2, Informative)
I kinda like my 939. if i wanna upgrade from 3000+ to 4800+, i can. that's a huge improvement still available.