Well I see basic comprehension is beyond you, so maybe I should break down my comments to nice little words for you:
My version - "I was fully prepared screw AMD and wait till god knows when to get a conroe"
dug777 special edition - "Me want get conroe"
My version - "I realised I...
That tweaktown bench has virtually single handedly put me off conroe, look at the system specs, 1gig of RAM and an ATA HDD for the AMD versus 2gigs of RAM and a SATA HDD for the conroe. If they didn't even try to make the systems of similar spec, what is stopping them buggering around in the...
I'll bet they get to keep them on extreme long term loan.
Still whether conroe lives up to the hype or not it's begun a price war, which is going to work out very well for all of us.
Reading through the comments in the link looks like that is not the only thing amiss. ATA/133 HDD in the AMD, SATA in the Conroe, that may not make much difference but why risk it? I mean if you can't trust them not to bias the hardware how can you trust them not to ah heck around in the BIOS...
Am I being dense or are they using 2Gigs of RAM in the Intel setups and only a Gig in the AMD one? Not trying to start anything evangelical, just wondered.
From TFA:
CONROE - Test System Setup
Memory(s): Corsair CM2X1024 8500C5 2GB
Older Intel - Test System Setup
Memory(s): Kingston...
Hi,
I have been reading through this thread looking for motherboard suggestions. Does anyone actually have any?
At the minute I'm running a 3000+ based Gentoo Linux (32bit) system, which has served me quite well. I am going to have to ditch it however as I am moving back to Glasgow and it...
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