3.4 or 3.6 Intel 775 Chip ?
 

Hi,

Prices for this chip are roughly as follows =A3200 for 3.4 and =A3300 for
3=2E6. =A3100 seems alot to pay if all the 3.6 actually is a 3.4 which
has been clocked up to 3.6 ?

Or am I wrong with this assumption and is the 3.6 an entirely different
chip which warrants the 30% price increase ?

TIA.

On 17 Sep 2004 02:21:22 -0700, "andyw"
wrote:


Hi,

Prices for this chip are roughly as follows £200 for 3.4 and £300 for
3.6. £100 seems alot to pay if all the 3.6 actually is a 3.4 which
has been clocked up to 3.6 ?

Or am I wrong with this assumption and is the 3.6 an entirely different
chip which warrants the 30% price increase ?


As has always been the case, Intel's highest speed chips
command a price premium, not only the top model but the next
few down, also. To get anywhere near reasonable bang for
buck, chose even slower than 3.4GHz.

To address the other part of the question, the 3.6GHz part
could be the LGA775 type, Land Grid Array has balls on the
bottom for contact, instead of pins, and uses different
motherboard. The 3.4GHz part might be priced similarly in
either configuration so we have insufficient data.

Know which you are buying for the target motherboard, look
up part numbers or ask vendor.

IMHO, there are a LOT of ways to spend that £100 that'd be
better than 200MHz gain on a 3.4GHz part.

Why even consider a 32 bit processor? Many who buy a 32 bit processor
in '04 will probably in '05 regret that they didn't buy a 64 bit processor
instead.
There aren't many 64 bit applications available now, however that should
start changing in the coming months. Most people don't use a processor
for 6 months or less, they use it for a few years.Those who are concerned
with performance shouldn't even consider a 32 bit processor. AMD has
positioned its 32 bitprocessors as lower priced budget processors. AMD's
64 bit processors are great performers running 32 bit applications due to
their integrated memory controller(s) and other refinements.


andyw wrote:

Hi,

Prices for this chip are roughly as follows £200 for 3.4 and £300 for
3.6. £100 seems alot to pay if all the 3.6 actually is a 3.4 which
has been clocked up to 3.6 ?

Or am I wrong with this assumption and is the 3.6 an entirely different
chip which warrants the 30% price increase ?

TIA.

Trouble is as far that I'm aware you can't get a motherboard that
supports AMD 64bit, DDR2 and PCI Express, so what you gain in future
proofing on the one hand you loose on the other.