Price Guides September 2004: CPU and Motherboards
by Adam Rader on September 3, 2004 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Intel Processors
While AMD may hold the crown right now for price:performance comparisons, Intel is still not to be dismissed. Intel still maintains the best performance for encoding and many mathematical/scientific applications. There's a reason why Intel maintains an overwhelming share of the CPU market.On that note, Intel prices have indeed come down quite a bit in the past few weeks on some of their higher-end models. This week's Intel pick goes to the Intel Pentium 4 (478) 3.0GHz 800FSB 1MB from E-Wiz. This is the first time that we have seen a chip from Intel clocked at or above 3GHz come to this price and stay here, for any useful period of time, which is definitely a good sign and should help boost competition just a bit more between the two major players in the CPU industry. This chip alone is helping to close the gap with AMD when it comes to price and it will be interesting to see if this trend continues.
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AdamRader - Sunday, September 5, 2004 - link
#1: #2 hit it right on the nose. Given the options, NewCastle is the one I would recommend. Coincidentally, this is the same chip that I use on my primary workstation.#3: I'm not sure if that can be done with the way the CMS is built, but I will certainly pass this on to Jason to see if it's feasible.
alm4rr - Saturday, September 4, 2004 - link
Can you move the price guide to under the link to go to the next section? It's just a lot to scroll through when reading the article for info (instead of looking for price info).Thx
JarredWalton - Saturday, September 4, 2004 - link
I purchased the Newcastle 3200+ 2.2 GHz a few weeks back, for two reasons. First, the improved clock speed is generally better than the improved cache size. Two, it was about $35 cheaper than the Clawhammer. For that price, I picked up a Zalman CNPS7000a heatsink/fan and overclocked my 3200+ to 2.42 GHz without any difficulty. I don't know about Adam, but I would go with the Newcastle cores for most setups, given the price difference. Not to mention the Clawhammer cores seem to be on the way out (hence the price difference).l3ored - Saturday, September 4, 2004 - link
which a64 3200 are you recomending? newcastle or clawhammer?