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Originally Posted by Jun Kitami
like a corei7 860 + P55 = DDR2 only? Last time I went with DDR1 as DDR2 was coming out... and I got shafted cuz DDR1 prices went up through the roof, and it was slow as shit...
how do Phenom II X4's compare to the crazy power that is i7's? according to this chart (hahahah)
it does poorly http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html though the 940 black edition sounds tempting... stupid ncix builder thing doesn't have options... i'll have to go through another build |
It's still DDR3 - but it runs dual channel rather than triple channel. However, it supports faster memory anyway, so bandwidth ends up being roughly the same.
Going 8xx is cheaper, and leaves you more upgrade options in your price range later on.
Read this
review of Core i7 to see how they compare to Athlon II.