Early tests give advantage to Intel's Conroe

There are several problems with your conclusions.: "Also, yet i not mention that AMD has been the first person/company at the door with inovations for PC chips, breaking the 1GHz barrier first, then breaking the 32bit to 64-bit transition barrier."

Intel had a 64bit, (Itanium) chip before AMD and AMDs 64 bit chip is just an extension of the X86 architecture that Intel invented.

"You now have better access to things such as faster memory, bus speeds, video cards, a lot faster hard drives (a plug for the oncoming SATA II drives, 300/MBps a second baby) of which these 4 items make or break how well a CPU performs."

Intel already uses the DDR 2 that AMD is talking about going to. The buss speeds, video cards and hard drives are a wash.

Now to this myth about the great performance gains from SATA II. Changing the buss speed to 300MB/second will do little or nothing to improve system performance since the gating item is how fast you can read/write to the magnetic media. You will never see 300MB/second from any of these drives except for an occasional burst from the drives cache.; Posted by: ShadeTree Posted on: 03/15/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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speed tests glocks out | 03/14/06

exagerated analogy glocks out | 03/14/06

Still wrong!!! ShadeTree | 03/16/06

oh well glocks out | 03/14/06

The BIOS had been updated george_ou | 03/14/06

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