Asus SK8N nForce3 Pro150 and Opteron
 

Has anyone seen this? I found it to be an interesting articile/review, which explains the technologies quite clearlly;
http://www.hardwaremania.com/reviews...n/sk8n-1.shtml

Good link, thanks.

This quote sums it all up in my humble opinion:

they should stop comparing them to sameclock bartons and start comparing them to what they'll be up against in desktop market...
3.0's and 3000+'s

Agreed..why downclock the Barton

Yup , Intel won't downclock their cpu's to say : look @ the same Mhz , the amd is faster. i don't know the pr rating op that cpu but is its 3000+ or something i think te p4 3.0c wil be muchh faster.... :puke:

I wonder if AMD has silicon which can run at 3.2GHz? Considereing the thoeretical difference in performance, if AMD had a CPU which ran at 3.2GHz and then put it up against Intel's P4 3.2 what do you think the difference would be? That I'd like to see.

you need about 1000mhz PIV cpu power more then AMD to get the same results.
I think that new AMD proc is a good step in the right direction.

A bit to late i think , If they could upgrade the clock 700Mhz or so , ok , but @ the time there will be cpu's and mobo available intel will be at 3.4Ghz or something , compared to the 1.6-1.8 Ghz of the athlon , In a big part of the aplications, what technoligy they may have, amd will need more clock cycles to keep by the p4...


Sorry for my crappy english

I agree, I believe Inteol especially with it's Hyperhtreading and Buffered RAM, and now PAT which is basically mirroring the LL PSD of low Latency memory, and placing it in the memory controller. The QDR or Buffered effect of the FSB needed this to bring back to more "relaistic" timmings. I must say AMD's chipsets still have the advantage in this area, as their unbuffered score more accurately portray, or ake advantage of currenbt LL DDR. Yet the gap is widening, and with Dual DDR now fully intrgrate into Intel chipsets it's time for AMD to do some serious clock adjustments. Rgeardless of the PR system, end-users especially businesses which comprise the gist of sales, want the bottom line, and to them Cklock speed equates to performance. AMD had it's tinme with the PR system for almost two year now, and it hasn't gained them any ground in the battle against Intel. They need to boost clock speeds irregardless if their merely placating those people whom are ignorant as to the architectual evolution of the modern CPU.