Recomendations regarding Clawhammers

I've been reading with great anticipation about the AMD Clawhammers due for release next year and they seem to have a great many advantages over the current chips around. However, being a lowly student and the likelyhood of AMD hiking prices by quite a bit; I was wondering if a dual AMD MP system would be in order instead? Hopefully the prices of this range of chips would have decreased when they are replaced as the flagship products by the Clawhammers. Any ideas? I appreciate it's probably a bit early to say as benchmarks aren't around for the current speeds of CPU's of today (Even though Clawhammer benchmarks are available), but it's something to discuss at least...

Cheers, Mike.

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Ah! I've wet meself! Oh no, it's just the leak in my watercooling kit...

I am in the same boat as you in that I will be building in June or so. I personally will look at the pricing of the Athlon64 (Clawhammer) and if is beyond my justifiable price to the wife, then I will get a Barton. A MP will not benifet you any unless you are running CAD programs or others of the same type that utilize two CPU's.

So to make it short, if the Athlon 64 is too much, then get a Barton, not a MP.

Booky

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.

Nope, but I can make a educated guess that they will be on the shelves sometime in early Feburary. But this is just a guess, one i made about 6 months ago btw. I figured NV30 and Barton would hit the shelf within 2 weeks of one another, I may still be right :-)

Booky

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.

I hope so, but I think it will only go to OEM this month and hit retail early next month. But the sooner the better :-)

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.

Well, we wont know the true performance increase untill it is out and being used by the people. What we do know is that it has 512kb of L2 cache instead of the 256kb found on the TbredB. It has a 333MHz FSB, and may get a 400MHz FSB in near future if not already (may be cause of delay).

It will definetly cause the 2800 to go down in price so its up to you to decide whats the best price for you. I still am waiting on the hammer either way, and if that is too much then its a Barton for sure.

The Barton should work with the A7N8X (with BIOS update), but the Hammer will not. The hammer has way more pins so needs a new socket.

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.

Most of the info about the Barton are in little tidbits. Sooo much attention is going to the Athlon 64 that not many post much about the barton. I would check the inquirer, amdzone, overclockers to name a few and maybe run a search on them for Barton.

As for Asus and the delux version, Newegg.com has the A7N8X Delux for $153. So that should help you with that answer :-)

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Booky on 01/02/03 02:53 AM.</EM></FONT></P>