What Is AMD's Equivalent To Intel's E5200/E5300?

[godbrother]

Just curious. It would have to be cheaper then the E5200/300, otherwise I see no point in a switch.

Thanks.

 

[godbrother]

C'mon AMD fan boys

 

[Devastator_uk]

The AthlonII X2 240 would be closest. It's slightly cheaper than the E5300 and slightly higher clock and has integrated memory controller and hypertransport so should perform a bit better.

 

[godbrother]

They both overclock great (athlon X2 and E5200), however the E5200 platform is s775 which is obsolete, meaning no more cpu's will be made. So unless your current mobo supports the E5200, then your better off going with the AMD platform.

AMD still plans to make more cpu's for the AM2+/AM3 platform, including new X3's X4's and X6's (I'm pretty sure AMD plans to make the X6's backwards compatible with DDR2 as well)

Soooooo.....even if the AMD platform was more expensive and it's not, at least it has upgradeability.

Is there a AM4 socket for AMD? If not, then whats the "cheapest" of the best for a AM3 socket motherboard? DDR2/3 dosn't matter for me. Slapping in 8GB's of DDR2 is good enough.