Originally Posted by videoman5

Bill Nye is what every OCNer dreams of becoming. A scientist with a PhD in Awesomology.

Originally Posted by ENTERPRISE

Well when I said there was nothing special about AM2 I was getting at the fact that AM2 is barely an improvement on architecture other than the memory controller. I know you were not debating that,however I felt it prudent to mention it.

AM2 may indeed be on par with 939 opties. However that is still not much of a reason to go AM2. Yes you get the added speeds of DDR2 however that is all you obtain. AM2 was AMD's socket to get a foothold into the DDR2 standards...it was created simply to keep up with Intel and C2D...lets face it

Now as AM2 architecture offers very little over 939 there isn't much of a ''Push factor'' to go to AM2....AM3 and K10 now thats a different story all together.

With Intel users there was a large pushing factor to move from Intel P4 and Dual core to C2D because C2D was a completely new architecture all together. C2D did not only incorperate DDR2 standards but the architecture was completely different or atleast vastly improved on compared to P4. Not only that but C2D was 65nm.

Overall what im trying to say is that with AM2 and 939 there really isnt much difference so the push factor to get AM2 is very little...well atleast in my eyes.

However in comparision to the Intel story this is very different.

Dont worry I do see what you are saying and its a valid point so please dont think im bashing or anything. I was just stating a point alongside yours !.

Originally Posted by videoman5

Bill Nye is what every OCNer dreams of becoming. A scientist with a PhD in Awesomology.