AM2 to use DDRII 1066?

[Kniwor]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30221

this will mean increase in performance...
seems INTEL is not all that sure to sail smooth with conroe

[overdose_14]

Intel cannot compete with AMD
AMD Always on top

[gary4gar]

amd is value for money
intel takes ur hard earned money for brand name

[Charan]

guys if you have any stats about the market share of AMD vs intel for this year and the year before the 64bit version was released then please post it.
thanks

[blackleopard92]

Seems you don't know it well.
Actually reports suggest that AMD M2 isn't fast enough.
only giving 1-5% increase in speed.
Many reason it as AMD has too low clock speed to Use high bandiwidth of DDR2.
In fact While Older Species utilized 80% of theoritical bandwith, AM2 only utilizes 50%. Simply b/s it is not fast
enough.

Seems like Intel has won the batle with Conoroe.
(Hard words for AMD fans like me)
Anyway, AMD says that it will have major core revisions in 2007.Maybe some hope next year.

[blackleopard92]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

amd is value for money
intel takes ur hard earned money for brand name

You are poorly informed.
Intel, due to large no of FAB plants is planning to make Dual cores so cheap
(Starting price equivalent to AMD 3000+) that you will bite your fingers off.

In fact the reason that AMD Dual core chips cost so much is that the have a single FAB plant, hence Cost of making a Dual core is roughly equivalent to cost of producing 2 single cores.

The good news is that AMD has opened up a new FAB plant, which will bring down cost of AMD x2 a lot.