Price Guides, May 2005: Processors
by Kristopher Kubicki on May 22, 2005 10:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Intel Celeron D
Celeron is also getting a facelift. The existing “3x5” and “3x0” processors will all increase their product number by one, but gain EM64T extensions. This is an interesting move, since AMD has put some emphasis on 64-bit instructions for their non-budge chips only. Unilateral 64-bit support sounds pretty nice.Pentium M
Don’t forget to check out Anand’s details on ASUS’s Socket 479 to Socket 478 adaptor. Pentium M seems to be losing headlines and fanfare faster than American Idol - mostly due to non-competitive pricing, poor motherboards and better alternatives from AMD and Intel. After all, why buy a $300 processor with a $200 motherboard on slow memory that won’t outperform a $200 Venice processor?The only Pentium M that seems to be showing any movement at all is the 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 [RTPE: BXM80536GC1700F]. Prices are still highway robbery, but at least the CPU is $10 cheaper than it was a month ago:
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semo - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
i don't know... after seeing the next gen consoles i care a lot less about new x86 procs. even in their early days the next gen consoles should cost less than the x2.AnnihilatorX - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
AMD Athlon 64 (939) 3700+ 1MB San Diego is $329 not $299that suprised me...
MAME - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
where are the X2's?Rand - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
Any reason why you don't list any of the 533MHz FSB Pentium M's?bearxor - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
Can't wait to see if AMD includes 64-bit on Sempron processors now.cnq - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
Kristopher,May be a slight error or 2 in the AMD SKU overview.
"Hammer" is not the name of *any* AMD stepping. It's the very general code name for the K8 architecture, encompassing, well, everything.
You meant "ClawHammer". And it's not true that all ClawHammers are C0; there are some CG's. Consider the socket 754 3700+, and some of the mobile chips. Unless the ones that I think are CG are actually the SledgeHammers.
Speaking of SledgeHammers: it's the FX-53/4000+ 130nm and FX-55/130nm, which are said to have ripping memory controllers compared to like-week'd NewCastles but are otherwise similar to CG ClawHammers.
cmyk - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
And were are the opterons?cmyk - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
dgarz01 - Sunday, May 22, 2005 - link
I see no mention of the Pentium M Sonoma Plaform why is that? It woudl be nice to include this is your review for next time.Tarumam - Sunday, May 22, 2005 - link
The best buy is socket 939 3700+. Its a San Diego core, it has 1MB cache, new SSE3 instructions, its memory controller is revised and its under US$ 300,00. Not quite a bargain, but still an incredible price/performance ratio.That would be my pick, if a powerful system was needed today.