not bad... but AMD should make <500$ athlon 64 X2 CPUS

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Nicely done. The price will be a factor as usual. Does the performance gain justify the cost? For the enthusiast yes, but I will wait a bit. My 754 setup with a raptor still rocks plenty enough for me. The technology improvements are great. I will always be a big AMD Fan.

jC

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How will the bandwidth limited X2 be affected by overclocking?

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I find it strange why AMD did not release <2.2GHz A64 X2s? Maybe due to manufacturing issues?

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Nice article. AMD has obviously awoken a sleeping giant, and Intel is fighting back on the pricing front. Hopefully the gamble that AMD single cores can hold their own versus Intel Duallies is true on the mid-low end (at least for the near future). I won't be buying an Intel chip anytime soon (unless I need a laptop).

Either way I figure I got 2.5 years before I need a dualcore, and by then who knows. So bravo to both companies for this innovation.

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#4 AMD probably wants you to buy their single core cpus instead, as they are much cheaper to produce and easier to produce in quantities. AMD would probably have problems delievering a lower cost dual core in quantities .

Who doesn't drewl for a A64 X2 after seeing this review??? I certainly do.

The dual core intel wouldn't be so bad either, except for the amount of heat it produces off.

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Slobber:P

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It's a wonderful article Anand, always love yours.. very in-depth But you're forgetting mem timings??? Arr.:)

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Awesome...I wish we could have seen a 4 socket 8 processor system rocking out with those four way xeons though, that would really illustrates some differences ;)

I agree with the previous sentiment on the x2's, I hope they bring out a sub $200 1.8 ghz or so model. I will be sticking this in my desktop box, not my gaming box, so if they can't bring anything out under $200 I will probably have to go with Intel. Boo for that ;)

Nat

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hm hope fab36 would increaswe production capacity of AMD and lower the cost down a bit

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