At 06:29 PM 1/28/2006, you wrote:
No real need for me to OC, and wouldn't want to take any data corruption
risk when encoding. It is nice a cool, and will be a good CPU for a media
center running on it's Asus K8N-E Deluxe. It should be plenty fast for
that particular use. On a media center my big concern is going to be
noise, and with this CPU I can really keep noise down. But all in all,
with the AMD 64 hype, I really expected it to come far closer to my
Prescott P4 3400. Frankly, I thought they would be very close.
Well, a real A64 w/512KB L2 cache will give the Prescott a run for its money.
You don't expect a Celeron-D to duke it out with a full-blooded A64 right? ;)
(although I won't knock the mobile Northwood-based Celeron w/256KB L2 -
have 3 of those 1.6GHz suckers OC'ed to 3.2GHz - runs great! :)
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JW
