but in asus site my mobo which is am2 not am2+ is supported for phenom
am2 supports phenom in general, but it will perform slower than on a am2+ motherboard.
the main differences in Socket AM2+ are utilised by AM2+ processors, i.e.
• HyperTransport 3.0 operating at up to 2.6 GHz
• Split power planes: one for the CPU cores, and the other for the Integrated Memory controller (IMC). This will improve power savings, especially with integrated graphics, if the CPU cores are in sleep mode but the IMC is still active.
HT 2.0 can work only at 1.4ghz almost halving the speed of interprocessor communication. In reality its not that bad, but its limiting already limited Phenom speed.
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Following components there, you can have best GPU available today, 8gb of ram, and fastest CPU on planet (only if you overclock) along with 1.5Tb of hdd space, all for less than 1500$.
If you’re mostly comfortable with your current amount of ram/ viewport speed, price could easily be cut to under 1000$, as they might be an overkill for your needs.
When I said that 500$ computer is 4x faster than 4000$ computer from 2 years ago, I didn’t mention that a 1000$ computer is 2x faster than the 500$ computer today. Same is not true as the price goes up, as 4000$ computer isn’t more than 50% faster than the 1000$ one. So 1000$ is about an optimum amount of money spent on performance. Any more and you hit diminishing returns fast.
but what will be price diffrence between AMD phenom & INTEL i7 - nehalem ??????????
I’d imagine its HUGE. Phenom is slow overall compared to core2 offerings, and i7 is supposed to be much faster than core2. Running unchallenged will allow intel to impose as ridiculous prices as it sees fit.
Will i7 slowest CPU be faster than the fastest Phenom? No doubt.
Will the price difference be justifiable? I don’t think so.
Is i7 worth the wait? If you can hold on another year before upgrading- than yes. If you need something faster now, you better act now.
i7 CPU price will be one thing, but special motherboard + ddr3 ram will just quadruple the regular price of a similar performing system. It will be about a year before prices reach down to earth- so unless you’re made of money, waiting for a year is probably the sanest thing to do.
Also, core2quad running at 3+ghz will surely be a force to recon even by i7 standards. So waiting for a year with 3.6ghz c2q, shouldn’t be a problem, as i7 that is faster than c2q @ 3.6ghz would probably cost near to 2000$ for the CPU alone.
You can get c2q 6600 (200$) OC to 3.6ghz with 50$ cooler= 250$ total for 1500+$ CPU performance.
