Are you thinking of upgrading?

[Kev367th]

WAIT a few months, or until Q1 2007.

Various ways you can go -

1) AMD dropping prices across the board by around 50% end of July. ($500 FX-62 anyone  )

2) Conroe - Launches in July, but won't be available to Mr average till around September (most peoples guess).

3) Wait till Q1 2007, lot's of new stuff coming.


My next big one will be Q1 2007, choice between -

Top range dual core Conroe ($1000 + mobo + mem)

or if price cuts pan out

2 x dual core FX-62's (yup total 4 cores) on a Torrenza motherboard. ($1000 + mobo + mem)

or if cheap enough
1x K8L (4 core CPU) on a Torrenza motherboard with 2nd socket spare for GPU, co-pro or physics processor.

Unless your desperate it's real good time to hang on a little.

[Bronk]

Kev thanks for posting this.
Could you point to any good articles about the K8L set ups?




Bronk

[Kev367th]

Not a lot known about it, AMD tends to keep very tight lipped anout the next generation cores.

What is known -

Dual core H1 2007
Quad core H2 2007
Can support DDR2,3 or FB-Dimms
HTT 3.0 up to 5.2GT/s
Cores can run different voltages, power states
128 bit FPU's
Cores will share a 3rd cache

Plus loads of other tweaks and enhancements.

Like I said, whichever way people upgrade, now is not the time to do it.
Both AMD and Intel have stuff on the way that will be available late this year. (i.e Intel - Conroe, AMD - price cuts and Torrenza.)

Article on K8L -
http://news.com.com/AMD+unveils+architecture+for+its+next+generation+of+chips/2100-1006_3-6072742.html?tag=nefd.lede

Torrenza ( more interesting to the 'enthusiast')
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20060602090104.html

One bit of good news - If you built a Torrenza based FX62 rig, it can be upgraded later to K8L's.

What would be nice would be a Torrenza based setup with a single 4 core K8L and a physics processor in the 2nd socket. Probably expensive also!!!

Thats why I'm waiting, it will come down to a dual core Conroe or 2 x dual core FX62's with the rev G core (due out end this year).
Will all depend on bang for buck.

[edit] Price cuts - looks like 30-40% on dual cores, 50% on single core.