FX57 with cold bug or Dothan @ -100C

[charlie]

What will be the top dog this summer??

[charlie]

AMD wont let us down.

Dave,
You need a Dothan, on one of your "set to kill" cascades, it will CRUSH any FX...

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[Mr. Tinker]

That's a tough one because you threw the x2 in there...begs the question "faster at what?"

[IamAnoobieCheez]

I contributed..

i have faith in dothan.

[charlie]

Well, we know for a FACT that Dothan at 3300 is equivalent to FX @ 3550mHz in superPi and 3D Benching...

In fact, in sPi benching, it's even a bit MORE tilted towards the Dothan! 23.8s superPi 1M here at "only" 3106mHz!

Oh and the CPU's are $200, lol...

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[faruquehabib]

yes, dothan is strong, but the newer technology chipsets and mobo's coming out will most likely boost performance and the fx57 should be pretty good. man, if intel could get better mobo's for their dothan's it would be ultimate, but they would be losing $$ bigtime.

[Sucka]

I'm gonna go with FX-57 seeing how the San Diego's are doing. These are gonna be the creme of the crop, so we'll see. No doubt Dothan's are gonna do well though, i wouldn't mind playing with one myself.

[kiwi]

Dothan is good but memory performance suc*s!

[charlie]

Dothan is good but memory performance suc*s!

Memory performance sucks... and how does that affect number crunching or gaming performance?? And the Sandra numbers... they're not bad at all! What "bad" memory performance do you speak of??

I'm around 7000mB/s with unoptimal memory sticks... is that "bad"

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[charlie]

AND for those that choose FX57, may I ask "WHY"??

Just curious... if it's 4x as expensive and "slower"??

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[dimasdw]

I think Dothan will rock ,but i hope Fx-57 can beat dothan
go..go..go.. FX-57

[i found nemo]

AND for those that choose FX57, may I ask "WHY"??

Just curious... if it's 4x as expensive and "slower"??

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i'd like to see where anyone can answer this, although if they are rich and want an easy overclock, just up the multi...simple enough right???

[jkabaseball]

tuff call here. The FX 57 should have a good chance at this, but I don't think that it will be that much on an improvement over the FX 55. For the FX 57 to beat the Dothan it will need to be clocked really high, I wouldn't be surprised if 4 GHz will be needed when everyone plays with their dothans this summer. Needless to say 4 GHz AMD isn't exactly doable for 99.999% of people, let alone benchmable.

Dothan has a good shot, but I still feel that its not home in a PC yet, even if it fits and works, not a true desktop CPU, its still designed for a notebook.


The X2 looks nice, but won't win this summer. Maybe winter when dual core software comes out, but on single core benchmarks that are so coomon here, nothing more then a normal A64.

Intel Pentium EE, this should be the highest clocked CPU of the summer, if you want fastest speed. They are selling the dual cores at lower speeds for the Dell like comapnies so they can cool them, but for people here, temps aren't as critical under cascades as with OEM cooling, so these will FLY!, sadly, its a P4 inside and will keep it under the radar, but may get a big strike in here.

[thecoldanddark]

pff amd fanboy jk,
I hope dothan smokes fx 57

[ChongL]

Fx-57!!!

[Vandi423]

I vote for Dothan because of the better cost/performance. For single threaded applications of course. Multithread has to go with the X2.

[ferrari_freak]

Though I am an AMD fanboy, I have voted Dothan because of the -100C... That would make crazy results. I voted Intel... I have to go beat myself now....

Usama aka Ferrari Freak

[[XC] moddolicous]

The FX will get my vote if
1) it has no cold bug 2) is below $500 3) can handle 4*512double sided ram 1t. Until then, no vote. BTW Charlie, why dont u use your redline with your dothan.

[Crow]

dothan!

[Jericho]

What will be the top dog this summer??

by your posts already you seem to think Dothan will win.

[AMD-me]

I love the Bias in this poll. Im not participating.

[Wiggy McShades]

I love the Bias in this poll. Im not participating.

why is it bias ?

edit: i voted for dothan cause under -100c itll overclock alot higher than a fx57 on a single stage i would think. but if the fx57 dosent have a cold bug then itll be close if their both on the same cooling.

[AMD-me]

why is it bias ?

edit: i voted for dothan cause under -100c itll overclock alot higher than a fx57 on a single stage i would think. but if the fx57 dosent have a cold bug then itll be close if their both on the same cooling.

Because of the -30 C. When making a poll dont express you unsubstanciated opinion on the poll takers. This polls assumes alot considering fx-57 is ALOT different then any previous FX or AMD for that matter.

[mcnbns]

Though I am an AMD fanboy, I have voted Dothan because of the -100C... That would make crazy results. I voted Intel... I have to go beat myself now....

Usama aka Ferrari Freak

I did the same thing, Ferrari Freak.

I was going to say Athlon 64 X2, but then it said "this summer". This summer there will be very few multithreaded apps (specifically games and benchmarks) so I voted Dothan.

Having said all that, is it not a little unfair to give Dothan -100 C and assume FX-57 will have a cold bug?

[Gautam]

Dothan's where its at, especially below -80C.