Core 2 Duo or Pentium D?

[BennyV04988]

Thanks alot charlie, his cousin babbled about the bigger cache in the Pentium D and the low clock speed in the Conroe

ohh...that poor poor excuse of a....human.

 

[mophead740]

are you sure we can still call him ....human

 

[The General]

Yeah!! My Athlon XP 2200+ is faster than your X2 3800+, cause thats only 2Ghz! Mine is 2.17Ghz!

 

[welsh]

yea, what if you oc your X2 3800+ to 2.2ghz? huh. what then mister tough guy?

 

[vaderpro]

yeah its so annoying
especially wen we all no that celerons suk dust compared to amds

Sry to break up the fun....you mean Athlon not Amd...

 

[Apokalipse]

@ n00bzalot:
take a look at this:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2795&p=8

that's all you need to see which one to get.

*steals welsh's X2 3800+ while he's busy*

 

[welsh]

*stares at screen, wondering why its now black*
Just wait till the AM3's come out, whenever that is.

 

[Apokalipse]

socket AM2 is staying for a while. rumour has it that it is capable of housing DDR3 compliant CPU's.
AMD just hasn't made the CPU's memory controller for DDR3.

but the next CPU's will be the K8L line. they'll be in socket AM2

 

[Nitestick]

considering as far as i know there is not yet a standard form factor for DDR3 memory sticks AMD can take the opportunity to enforce one that matches the DDR2 form factor. given the on-die memory controller it is very possible that a DDR3 compatible cpu will appear on AM2 as it circumvents Intel's old problem of requiring a new chipset (at which point you may as well just make a new socket anyway as it will require the end user to purchase a new motherboard).

 

[BennyV04988]

socket AM2 is staying for a while. rumour has it that it is capable of housing DDR3 compliant CPU's.
AMD just hasn't made the CPU's memory controller for DDR3.

but the next CPU's will be the K8L line. they'll be in socket AM2

Do they stand a chance against conroe though? I would liek be complacent with my build for years to come!

also nvidia...hope they can keep their ground too.