Two days before christmas 2004 my old motherboard (Asus A7M266-D) decided to go *poff* and took one of my 2 CPUs (AMD Athlon MP 1900+) with it in the fall. At this point there where no Socket-A MBs at the stores since it was to old. I had to buy new stuff and this time I didn’t go dual. I ended up with a Asus A8V Deluxe and a AMD Athlon 64 3800 and 1GB RAM.
Last night I read a review of the new AMD Athlon 64 X2 that I found really interesting. The Athlon 64 X2 is a A64 but with two cores so it can calculate two things at a time. The new A64 X2 uses the same socket (socket939) and doesn’t consume more power than the ordinary A64 processors. If I’m lucky my new MB will support the new A64-X2 in the future. It just depends on the BIOS software.
The review was interesting in many ways. We clearly see that Intel have problem to keep up with AMD at this stage. The AMD CPU is both faster and consume less power in the process and, thus, it’s easier to keep Cool ‘n’ Quiet!