AMD Processors and RAM

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MCanavan6

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After looking through many prebuilt computers and motherboards for AMD processors I've come to realize that, DDR2 and Dual Channel does not exist for AMD-specific motherboards. Is this true? If so, why can't you have dual channel with AMD yet you can with Intel?
 
You CAN have dual channel with AMD, although your mobo may not support it. But AMD hasn't put support for DDR2 memory in it's on-die memory controllers, so AMD would need to wait to make a whole new line of processors before we see DDR2 support.

Intel on the other hand, has support for dual channel AND DDR2. They jumped on the bandwagon as soon as DDR2 came out
 
Thechefxxxv said:
You CAN have dual channel with AMD, although your mobo may not support it. But AMD hasn't put support for DDR2 memory in it's on-die memory controllers, so AMD would need to wait to make a whole new line of processors before we see DDR2 support.

Intel on the other hand, has support for dual channel AND DDR2. They jumped on the bandwagon as soon as DDR2 came out
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Is an AMD with DDR faster than an Intel with DDR2, if the processors are about the same?
 
AMD is much better than Intel, and most people agree. if an Intel processor and an AMD processor cost the same, and the Intel has DDR2, and the AMD has DDR, the AMD PC will usually win. AMD rocks.
 
Thechefxxxv said:
AMD is much better than Intel, and most people agree. if an Intel processor and an AMD processor cost the same, and the Intel has DDR2, and the AMD has DDR, the AMD PC will usually win. AMD rocks.
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fanboy.....one of the biggest fanboy comments iv'e seen.
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MOST of the time DDR2 isn't much better then DDR.

INTEL and AMD, can both beat eachother are different things, it depends on what your donig with your pc. GENERALY people say AMD is for gaming and INTEL for multitasking. alhtough a AMD X2 is a good multitasker too.


Also AMD does support dual channel, just not DDR2, many people think that AMD is going to skip DDR2 and just go right to DDR3, I myself dont know enough about it to attempt to predict what AMd is going to do.
 
Thechefxxxv said:
AMD is much better than Intel, and most people agree. if an Intel processor and an AMD processor cost the same, and the Intel has DDR2, and the AMD has DDR, the AMD PC will usually win. AMD rocks.
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your one of the biggest fanboys ever, lol

AMD rocks at games, intel at most everything else.
 
AMD rocks at games, intel at most everything else.
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The margin of game performance seen between an AMD and a comparable Intel is usually larger than the margin of system performance. An Intel may speed encoding and other things up but an AMD can speed gaming up enough to outweigh the loss in other areas. Overall the price/performance ratio leans toward AMD many times when looking at the lower priced CPUs although as the price goes up, the differences in price/performance lessens. The costliest CPU of AMD and Intel seems to be almost equal at newegg with the highest priced Intel only about $10 more the last time I checked.

Since DDR2 just came into market not too long ago, it is still young and DDR2 RAM looks to be slower than current DDR RAM because timings are high and decent DDR2 RAM is expensive. AMD supports Dual-Channel in their newer CPUs and there is a theoretical performance increase but I've seen no actual benchmarks between the two so....maybe, maybe not. I don't think Intel supports dual-channel please correct me if I'm wrong.

Intel is slowly gaining in gaming performance but with the release of the AMD socket M2 CPUs coming, Intel might have a lot of catching up to do.
 
So basically if I'm going to be doing any gaming at all then I want to go with the AMD.
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Pretty much. It is usually advisable to go with AMD for games. Try to get a socket 939 Athlon 64, they are really good and you can get an Athlon64 3000+ for a little over $140...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103537
Be sure to get the Venice(Athlon 64 3000+~ Athlon 64 3800+?) or San Diego(Athlon 3800+? and above) core for best performance. Don't get the X2 processors unless you do a lot of video editing or encoding.
 
gamerman4 said:
Pretty much. It is usually advisable to go with AMD for games. Try to get a socket 939 Athlon 64, they are really good and you can get an Athlon64 3000+ for a little over $140...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103537
Be sure to get the Venice(Athlon 64 3000+~ Athlon 64 3800+?) or San Diego(Athlon 3800+? and above) core for best performance. Don't get the X2 processors unless you do a lot of video editing or encoding.
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I'll be getting an Athlon 64 3700+ because it comes in a prebuilt HP. Is the X2 3800+ not as good for gaming?
 
I'll be getting an Athlon 64 3700+ because it comes in a prebuilt HP. Is the X2 3800+ not as good for gaming?
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The X2 is actually two cores of a slower CPU. Just go with the 3700+ for gaming. You would actually probably see a performance loss in gaming with a slower X2 CPU.
 
If your gonna go with the 939 configuration 'd say do the OPTRON which is 940 PIN 1.8GHZ Dual Core that has been talked about doing 3.0GHZ STOCK cooling Any how its all UP to you.
 
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