i975 Yonah mobo from Aopen

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Just the news I was awaiting.

After reading Anandtechs preview of the Yonah my analyzes says that Yonah will conquer the enthusiast computers of the first half of 2006... if a overclockable desktopboard is released. Dothan allready overclocks to 2,8-3GHz - the 65nm should improve the max clock.

Look at the summary below - the performance is on par with Athlon64 X2 except in gaming, but since the framerates are below 100 the difference is on average in worst case ~5FPS and the Yonah system don't even have high performance DDR2....
Also keeping in mind that the Yonah use less power full loaded than a idling A64 X2 at same clock frequency makes it quite impressive.
Single thread performance compared to Dothan is increased as well...



Summary of Anandtech preview

• Yonah 2GHz (12x166) - DDR2-533 CAS4-4-4-12 - 945G chipset
• Dothan 2GHz (15x133) - DDR2-533 CAS4-4-4-12 - 915G chipset
• Athlon64 X2 2GHz (512kb L2) - DDR400 CAS2-2-2-7 - nForce4 SLI chipset
• Athlon64 X2 2GHz (1024kb L2) - DDR400 CAS2-2-2-7 - nForce4 SLI chipset
  
• Videocard : nVidia 7800GTX

Yonah is reference (100%) in all of the comparisions.

- Overall system performance ( Winstone 2004, SYSMark 2004, Worldbench 5) :
[ A64 X2 512kb: -0,56% ] - [ A64 X2 1024kb: +0,48% ] - [ Dothan: -12,7% ]

- Professional Applications ( 3dmax7, Adobe Premier Pro 1.5, Adobe Photoshop CS2) :
[ A64 X2 512kb: -3,16% ] - [ A64 X2 1024kb: -2,33% ] - [ Dothan: -39,9% ]

- Media Encoding ( DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15, Windows Media Encoder 9, Quicktime 7.0.3 Pro, iTunes 6.0.1.3)
[ A64 X2 512kb: -2,73% ] - [ A64 X2 1024kb: -1,95% ] - [ Dothan: -39,2% ]

- Gaming, 1024x768 ( Battlefield 2, Black & White 2, Call of Duty, FEAR, Splinter Cell, Quake 4)
[ A64 X2 512kb: +2,33% ] - [ A64 X2 1024kb: +4,85% ] - [ Dothan: -2,62% ]

- Gaming, 1280x1024 / BF2=1280x960 ( Battlefield 2, Black & White 2, Call of Duty, FEAR, Quake 4)
[ A64 X2 512kb: +2,82% ] - [ A64 X2 1024kb: +4,62% ] - [ Dothan: -1,48% ]

- Gaming, 1600x1200 ( Battlefield 2, Black & White 2, Call of Duty, FEAR, Quake 4)
[ A64 X2 512kb: +1,98% ] - [ A64 X2 1024kb: +2,58% ] - [ Dothan: -0,5% ]

- OVERALL AVERAGE ( excluding 1280x1024+1600x1200 gaming)
[ A64 X2 512kb: -1,03% ] - [ A64 X2 1024kb: +0,26% ] - [ Dothan: -23,61% ]

- Source: Anandtech