Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Dec 04, 2007 6:05pm PST

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Not many things are more fun than getting stuck at airports and catching 6am flights

the next day.

Virtual gifts are
hot

American teens still slacking

Credit card execs
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/04/business/main3574131.shtml">under fire

Latest on iPhone locking
href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/german-court-says-t-mobile-can/story.aspx?guid=%7B167CB1CE-1FB3-4264-83B9-A62998DEF1B5%7D">in
Germany

Who are you really?

Lastly, after checking out that

href="http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=694">Dark Sector preview I

actually find myself a little bit interested. Who knew?

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Computer menz: E6650 vs. X2-6000 .....E6650, right?

Dec 04, 2007 10:24pm PST

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Computer menz: E6650 vs. X2-6000 .....E6650, right? : Sludgehead
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  Yes. : carrioN luggagE
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    I'm upgrading from a PIII-800 lmao Will I see any performance gains? : Sludgehead
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      Maybe. : carrioN luggagE
      
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      I'm building a system tomorrow and both options are going to cost the same so no reason not to go with th... : Sludgehead
      
      You get more gaming performance (I think, someone back me up here) going with Intel. For other mundane sh... : carrioN luggagE
    - You can finally install Quake 3! : Sailor of Fortune
    - oh man I remember going from a P3 600 to my current P4 2.4c. That was quite a leap. You're making an even... : moe6
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  the X2-6000 is a 3Ghz part, vs the 2.33Ghz of the E6650, it'd be faster.. Of course, if you're plannin... : Toraz Chryx
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    huh? benchmarks i'm looking at indicate the 6650 is faster than the x2-6000, like 10% faster : Sludgehead
    - and oops, it's a 6550 i'm looking at, not 6650 : Sludgehead
    - Exactly what are you seeing benchmarked? : Toraz Chryx
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      Looking through the benches Sapiens linked, it's a back and forth, sometimes the 6000+ is up there with t... : Toraz Chryx
      
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      yeah the more i look the more they seem pretty evenly matched. maybe i'll just flip a coin at the store ... : Sludgehead
      
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      what about power consumption... that's typically where intel has been thumping on AMD. It also has to do... : paravis
      
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      I'm not really concerned with power consumption or overclocking. I figure either system will allow me to... : Sludgehead
      
      regardless the better choice is still intel if it comes down to power consumption. higher power bill... : paravis
      
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      The Intel rig would also give a nicer (for the moment at least) upgrade path..
      
      And cooler/quieter running is always good.
      
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      The Intel rig would also give a nicer (for the moment at least) upgrade path.. And cooler/quieter runn... : Toraz Chryx
      
      It does. You wont hear the intel cpu's cooler and you can get a mobo with an intel chipset for it, which ... : [7]kami
      
      consider upgrades; AM2 has short legs, while a year from now you're set for a Penryn quad. : Merconium
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    Since when did we resume the practice of using raw MHz to determine whether one CPU was faster than anoth... : Sapiens
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      Also, here are some benchmarks so you can see roughly where the X2-6000 falls compared to the C2D and C2Q... : Sapiens
      
      And I fail at linking benchmarks. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=2963&p=4 : Sapiens
    - We haven't? which is why i'm not saying "It's higher clocked, it'll be faster" as an absolute. : Toraz Chryx
  - 2002 flashback! : paravis

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