Fry's has the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ with MSI K9N-SLI motherboard for $275 this weekend.
Is this a good deal or not?
Or April 22 for Intel price cuts.
I'm not a "fanboi" for either Intel or AMD. I buy whatever CPU is better for the price. Right now, that happens to be Intel pretty much across the board (for gaming anyway).
I'd love it if AMD releases some CPUs soon that compete with or beat Intel. As you said, more competition is usually good for price and performance.
sounds good but honestly unless your going to rad OC AMD can meet a C2D E6600 in performance and cost...........
sounds good but honestly unless your going to rad OC AMD can meet a C2D E6600 in performance and cost...........
An E4300 overclocked will outperform any X2 out there so your $310 chip comment is totally wrong considering it runs $169 or so and will be $113 on April 22nd. Also the x2 3600+ is $89 now and will be $63 next week. Core 2's are faster in every benchmark, even gaming, over x2 with the exception of a very select few. Also Barcelona is a server chip not a desktop chip so get your facts straight. It will be I believe Agena that will be the desktop version and with the way AMD has been in delaying things hard telling when or ever it will see the light of day.
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