Computermachine stuff
Posted By matt on April 16, 2008
So, I was originally going to get an AMD Phenom, but I've been looking at the benchmarks and the fix for the TLB bug just kills things. So, looks like it will be a Core 2 Quad….
Looks like the new computer will be a birthday present to me. 
Edit: It looks like the fixed B3 stepping CPU's will be out by the time I go to buy my parts, so I'm going to be using an AMD Phenom with an ASUS M2A32-MVP board. The only downside I can find with that board is that there is only one LAN card. For now, this is not an issue, but I might add a PCIe ethernet card at some point.
Edit2: I should probably mention that I am under no illusions that the AMD CPU's have performance on par with the Intel Core 2 Quad CPUs – they are all slightly slower. They are also about $100 cheaper when you take into account the difference in costs of CPU and motherboard. I am okay with this.
Edit3: I should clarify Edit2. After reviewing some benchmarks, it appears that the Phenom 9850 is about the same speed (faster with some, slower with others) as the Core 2 Quad Q6600 while being the same price. Hopefully those will be out by the time I go to buy boxen..
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