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The article pretty much sums it up, but heres the short hand virsion.

AMD has finally come back at Intel. X8L is crushing the Pentium D's Prestler core in all benchmarks, with the exception of mabe one or two. However compairing the FX-62 to the benchmarks of the Conroe, Intel still will have the upper hand.

nForce 5 is going to be the board for me. With sual x16 support, and a built in SLi bridge its quite the board.  They also have a new transfer tech, so that the 7900 series will see a 20% boost in preformance. This will also carry over for the 7950 series, and 8x00 series.

And its just in time too, as I was looking for a new mobo anyway.

Cheers
Cameron

And it comes out just as im about to upgrade...

Kinda disapointed with AM2.  Not a very big performance boost from 939, I'm sure AMD could have just released some new on die memory controllers that supported faster DDR1 speeds and had simlar boosts in speed.

Well Jim its good your going to wate, because in about Aug~Oct when Conroe comes out your going to be sorry for going AM2.

However NF5 is really really sexy, and I want one of the boards + 2x 7900GTs which both happen to fall withen my parents $700 upgrade for vista

Cheers
Cameron

Well Jim its good your going to wate, because in about Aug~Oct when Conroe comes out your going to be sorry for going AM2.

However NF5 is really really sexy, and I want one of the boards + 2x 7900GTs which both happen to fall withen my parents $700 upgrade for vista

Cheers
Cameron

Not waiting that long!

I'm ordering my new system next week, regardless. LOL. Ive waited too long now, so im just 'gonna get it ordered.

Cheers,

James  8)

AM2 Boards are on newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131011

For $240 thats amazing. And if I were going to buy AMD thats what I would buy.

Cheers
Cameron

And it comes out just as im about to upgrade...

I mentioned you might want to wait until the new motherboards hit the market.

Keep this in mind though... it might be new and improved... but it ain't tested in combat until it's been on the market for at least 6 months and all the hardware, driver and BIOS bugs have been squashed. It sometimes takes a year before a good board in a new format has been established.

I mentioned you might want to wait until the new motherboards hit the market.

Keep this in mind though... it might be new and improved... but it ain't tested in combat until it's been on the market for at least 6 months and all the hardware, driver and BIOS bugs have been squashed. It sometimes takes a year before a good board in a new format has been established.

Good point Nick.

I'm just going to go ahead and order my new system as it is.

Cheers,

James

The only thing your going to miss is NForce 5, which would boost the quality of your 7900GTX waay up. 20% to be exact.

Cheers
Cameron