Phenom or Barcelona?

[K.I.L.E.R]

I am getting quite sick of waiting, which would deliver better performance, what cost would I be looking at for the fastest Barcelona with 4GB memory and a new mobo supporting PCIE 2.0?

 

[AnarchX]

Barcelona is a expensive server/worstation-processor with expensive sever/ws-boards(no ocing and other limitations) and RDDR and atm with a maximum clock 2GHz.

You should better wait for Phenom in December, which can use HT3.0 and DDR2-1066 and should have better/faster stepping and higher clocks.

 

[Albuquerque]

Agreed with AnarchX. Barcelona is not what you've been waiting for, Phenom is. And by the time Phenom is available, you'll have Penryn as an option too.

I'd still wager a free cup of coffee that Penryn > Phenom in performance and power consumption, but I still wonder about price... Only time will tell!

 

[Blazkowicz]

if you don't mind a socket F mobo, DDR2 ECC registered and a 1.9GHz processor go for it
the biggest advantage would be upgradability to eight cores (add another CPU).. though I don't know what you'd do with such a system.

 

[Natoma]

Folding is your friend on that system.

 

[epicstruggle]

ok, when the frack is phenom being released?

 

[AlphaWolf]

ok, when the frack is phenom being released?

last I heard it was Q4 '07.