I spent most of the past few days working on a mid-range CPU comparison, the idea is to compare CPUs on mainstream platforms at mainstream price points. Both AMD and Intel have extremely attractive offerings around the $100 price point and many of us are building cheap/quiet PCs these days, either for ourselves or others. The other thing I'm tackling is the current state of integrated graphics platforms for non-gaming use. I'm hoping to finish up the article this week while I'm at IDF, but it remains to be seen how much work I can sneak in between meetings and IDF coverage.
I'm normally far more excited on the first day of IDF, usually because I know there are some good disclosures coming our way, but it's really tough to top the past twelve or so months from Intel. The Core 2 IDF won't be upset for years to come I believe, and even the Penryn IDF gave us a great deal of technical information on Intel's forthcoming 45nm processors. While I'd love to get an in-depth look at Nehalem at this year's IDF I have a feeling it's just too early for that.
The first keynote of IDF is about to start so I'll cut this one short. Check back in a couple of hours for the start of our IDF coverage.
I'm normally far more excited on the first day of IDF, usually because I know there are some good disclosures coming our way, but it's really tough to top the past twelve or so months from Intel. The Core 2 IDF won't be upset for years to come I believe, and even the Penryn IDF gave us a great deal of technical information on Intel's forthcoming 45nm processors. While I'd love to get an in-depth look at Nehalem at this year's IDF I have a feeling it's just too early for that.
The first keynote of IDF is about to start so I'll cut this one short. Check back in a couple of hours for the start of our IDF coverage.
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cserwin - Sunday, September 23, 2007 - link
In you review, I would be interested in performance scaling with memory speed. In the past I've built machines for friends using my second hand parts, and have found that buying the fastet memory that the IGP motherboard can support can make the difference between "pathetic" and "acceptable".Where in the enthusiast space, upgrading to faster memory usually isn't worth the investment over upgrading other parts, my impression is in the IGP space that the performance in noticeable. I would be very interested to see if that pans out in your benchmarking.
Lets face it, who doesn't have PC2-4200 floating around? Is it worth using even in a non-gaming or minimal gaming machine?
Peace.
FlameDeer - Friday, September 21, 2007 - link
Thanks for all the hardwork to bring us very good & informative IDF coverage in details.Rike - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - link
Thanks for all the interesting info on the front page so far. I'm looking forward to reading all the IDF reports.